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NASA Satellite Stranded

Account 10 writes: "BBC News has a story about one of NASA's newest and most sophisticated satellites. Launched a couple of weeks ago, it was supposed to have moved itself up into the correct orbit . Once there, one of its roles would be to route data between the ISS, other satellites and the ground as aprt of the TDRS (Tracking and Data Relay Satellite) project. However a fuel tank is leaking and it cannot reach its orbit. One suggestion is that it maneuver itself into an orbit where the shuttle can reach and rescue it - to repair it and send it on its way, or bring it home to be launched again."

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  1. Tux racer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I cannot fucking understand why tux racer does not have an options menu that lets me pick the fucking resolution.

    I mean, how long do you spend writing a game and forget about basic fucking options?

    Yah, eventually I found the dot-file to configure it, but PLEASE, this is ridiculous.

    Now my whole weekend is ruined cause I spent 3 hours looking for the tux racer config file. FUCK!!!

    1. Re:Tux racer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      anyone that would acutally play "tux racer" is a fucking loser

      why not play a good game? you looser

  2. LOOOOOOOL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LOOOOOOOL! I am so gaaaaaaaaaaay!

    1. Re:LOOOOOOOL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You should come to the channel # (no name) on DALnet. Idiots fall in our channel and spew shit like that all the time -- I think that, as most do not speak English, they think it's a word, not an acronym. So "LOOOOOL" is to "LOL" as "fuck you" is to "fuck yooooou!!"

      Oh, BTW: Fuck yooooou!!

  3. LOOOOOOOOOL! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    LOOOOOOOOOL! I am so gaaaaaaaaay!

  4. Baked Beans and a (sightly watery) Shit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hmmm.. The breakfast of a true open sorez h@x0r.

  5. Better story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SLADE RIPFIRE: Punch to Kill

    LOGLINE: A man-Slade Ripfire is the biggest baddass fordamn straight and other guys are all like, bring it and guess what?

    ACT ONE: So Slade is loading his gun and his supervisors's all like: The criminals need rehabilitation and he shoots back-I've got 44 calibers of rehab six times here and the supervisor's all fag-face cause Slade just totally burns him.

    Also the secretary's got big tits and she acts like a dyke but at the end she's fucking Slade.

    CUT TO the park where this KluxKlan guy's beating on a black guy and all saying stuff like "Racist this and racist that" and then Slade's there saying :Why don't you fuck with the wrong motherfucker and come fuck with me

    And we show the KluxKlan guy all putting up a cool and Slade shoots him so he's lifted off the ground in slow motion, but we show his head fly off and it's screaming while it's still flying.

    While Slade was killing the Klan guy there is a bank robbing: the twist-they were distracting Slade in the park while they took down the bank.

    ACT TWO: Now there's been a rash of bank robs for two weeks and the supervisor won't listen to Slade.

    'You stop these guys beating up minoritys in the parks' But it's a smokescreen-Slade and the supervisors just takes his badge and Slade's all like, 'Vietnam is all forgotten to you' and we show a picture: they were buddies in Vietnam.

    The supervisors sits down on his one leg and is sad and is saying, 'You don't know the pressure I'm under and Slade's saying, 'Drive on, bro. And the supervisor: 'Just this once' and we see they are friends even though they yell everything.

    ACT THREE: We're showing inside the bank and theres: 2 tellers a mom and 3 kids a guard an old woman and another guy.

    Then all over the screen it's crash when a big motorcycle with sidecar comes through the front window - it's the robbers!

    They machete the 2 kids and the old woman (with Slade's voice) says, 'Wrong move' and throws off his wig and purse - Slade was really the old lady.

    Then for one hour he fucks up the robbers. The chief robber says, 'There's a minority getting beat on in the park:

    FLASHBACK: Slade teaching every black guys kung-pow and now in the present the black guy is killing the robber's ass in the park-it was one of the black guys who learned kung-pow.

    Slade: Now everyone minority is the wrong motherfucker to fuck with. And he karate kicks a stick of dynamite into the guys chest(first he shoots a hole so the dynamite will go in) The guy looks down and he's so fucked and Slade's all: 'Don't lose your head' This gets a big laugh because the guy's head dynamites off all the way to the ceiling (off the screen).

    Then Slade fucks the secretary out of being a dyke.

  6. Re:WAIT A MINUTE!!!!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Since when is it offtopic to mention the fact that there was a typo in a /. writeup?

  7. My favorite quote by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Everybody here at NASA knows that CmdrTaco is a fucking moron. Subscription to a collection of links and lame commentary ? Hilarious !"

    Seem that the NASA guys are still damn cool.

  8. He slept with his girlfriend's mother! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jerry?!!Is that you?

  9. Re:So sad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't see why the parent post is flaimbait.

    The Europeans have a much more open media culture than we do. Lots of things happen in the world (hell! even in our own collective back yards) that the gubmint(tm) doesn't want us to know.

    Read the European media if you want an objective viewpoint on all the shit we're causing in the world!