ISS Fender Bender

wjsteele writes "Seems that the Space Station has had a minor fender bender. Sounds kind of scary... being in a space craft and hearing metal crunching (like an aluminum can.) Apparently some 'Minor' space debris struck the station around 2:30am this morning, while the astronauts were eating their wheaties." Update: 11/27 16:31 GMT by M : Looks like an experiment may be to blame.

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Re:30,000 km/s can do a lot of damage

[cybergrue]

So anyone who still think the movie Armageddon is based on scientific facts.
Your kidding right. Armageddon is possibly the worst SF movie in recient years in respect for the correct protrayal of science. Normally I go to see big budget SF movies and privatly chuckle everytime a scientific law gets broken. Most movies I rate in "minutes between screwups", however in Armageddon, it was how many screwup were there per second. My favourate one is when they doc with Mir, start it rotating to create artificial gravity, and then walk up the docking tubes. :-[ If they got this wrong, then don't expect the Hollywood producers to be able to calculate the damage from a two body collision correctly.

Rant of the month

[Wolfrider]

--Y'know, this is a case where your vaunted "education" really kills the ENTERTAINMENT value of a movie. I thoroughly enjoy Armageddon every time I see it, because -IT'S A MOVIE- and I try not to read into it too much. Yeah, I recognized the "Mir gravity" as unrealistic, but it didn't get in the way. They did a great job on the plot and visual effects. I even got emotional over Liv Tyler's scene with her dad making the heroic sacrifice.

--Cut them some slack, at least it wasn't as bad as Battlestar Galactica. (And if you lower your expectations, you could probably enjoy even that, too.)

--You could pick apart the whole LOTR trilogy too, if you wanted to; but personally I figure it's better to just sit back and try to enjoy the ride. Don't over-analyze everything.

--People are just getting too "sophisticated" these days. Everybody's got their nose up in the air and we all walk around thinking how well-educated and how great we all are. Yeah, we've "sophisticated" ourselves right out of a good imagination and we can't enjoy anything anymore. And Hollywood keeps making crappy movies because idiots keep paying to see it.

--All our base are belong to India while stupid people over here work 12+ hour days, when more people should be hired to spread the work around. No wonder the economy is so damn bad.