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Space Station Slowly Falling Apart?
Yoda2 writes "MSNBC discusses debris apparently seen by the crew floating away from the International Space Station. From the article, 'Such debris may include fragments of insulation, labels and possibly important components.' Yikes! Many of these quotes seem appropriate."
So what we're saying is, Mir was actually pretty damn good.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Is this a nice way of saying that a slothful astronaut got sucked out into space?
True story.
Race: Payload checklist. IRS surveillance satellite --
Buzz: Check.
Race: Ant farm --
Buzz: Check.
Race: Children's letters to God --
Buzz: Check.
--- Deep Space Homer
include fragments of insulation, labels and possibly important components
Labels? Like "Canadarm" or "U.S.A." ? Please don't tell me there's a Taco Bell billboard up there too!
Remebers me of the "Armageddon" movie - the "russian" kind of repair-method
*kick*slam* hey ! it works !
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most of us won't be able to afford it.
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This clearly has to be the bottle of finegrain Wodka I lost just the other day !
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Trolling is a art,
Did anyone else read that as "the crew was floating away from the space station"? I thought "Damn, things *are* getting bad..."
Abort the mission.
Yeah, they should have just let the British build it.
Nah, all that leaking oil floating around in low orbit would pose a threat to other spacecraft.
Trolling is a art,
. . .hardly any of them apply to the current situation.
It's worse than that Jim, hardly any of them were any good.
Not that it matters, it's dead Jim, dead Jim, dead Jim, dead.
KFG
1) I always knew that such an international collaboration is succeptible to fragmenting.
2) Someone send in Tom Ridge with plastic wrap and duct tape.
3) In ISS, the computers defrag you!
4) The ISS -- Modular programming at its finest.
5) ISS -- I could have sworn it was Apache Station
6) NASA is waiting for an official patch for ISS
7) Aussie quoted: "pull yourself together, mate! Yer fallin apart!"
8) ISS -- where do you want to fragment today?
My brother once tried to convince me and my dad that his 13 year old JAG was designed to leak oil. Suppose to keep the frame rust free....
On MIR, when this happened, they just shipped up more vodka from the gravity well.
Pretty soon, no-one cared that they were floating in a tin-can far above the world.
Problem solved.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
It must be cold in space for that to happen. But when you gotta go, you gotta go!
Objects in Mir are closer than they appear.
Ooops. Wrong station.
Just another day on the ISS when...
(Carl) Hey, Herb - there's something floating outside
(Herb) Well, take a picture of it with the camera on the robotic arm, for goodness sake!
(Carl) Uh, Herb, we have a problem. It *IS* the robotic arm.
MSNBC discusses debris apparently seen by the crew floating away from the International Space Station.
The crew saw debris as they were floating away from the ISS!? It sounds like the more alarming story is the fact that the ISS is losing crewmen! :)
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
A long while ago, somebody* called Mir "The Orbiting Space Barge of Death." Perhaps the ISS could be renamed "The International Space Barge of Death."
/. poll, but I couldn't locate the source.)
*(I wanna say it was from an old
The Space Station...what's it all about? Is it good or is it whack?
C'mere you!
*smack* "Falling apart" is just a saying. *smack* Now say it! *smack* Say it! *SLAP* That's right. *biff* Now who's yer daddy? *pow* Yeah, I thought so. *wham* Now, get back to work. *bonk*
--- Ban humanity.
Now I see why they want to build the next one on the moon. No parts lost in space, just collect and reassemble...
"the International Space Station. From the article, 'Such debris may include fragments of insulation, labels and possibly important components.'"
Anyone else curious why they would put LABELS on the outside of ISS? (THIS SIDE UP!)? I wonder how many UFO's have read them yet..
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Wah!
For those of you who can't get to it, don't worry--you didn't miss much. It's just a compilation of Scotty quotes, and contrary to the submitter's assertion, hardly any of them apply to the current situation.
Unlucky me, I fell in Geocities' good graces and was welcomed by an auto-playing sound file. I'm supposed to be in the middle of a big project, typing away furiously, and suddenly my speakers burst out with "Hello, Computer"!
Now, people are looking around the cube wall seeing me surfing Slashdot.
Oops, gotta go.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
I'm sorry Dave, I can not do that. It fell off already.
my head injury from Skylab just cleared up 3 days ago, now I have to worry about this.
A Russian piece? Sounds exciting. What does she look like?
and if these pieces are coming to earth... I think it may be time for me to add an extra layer of protection to my tinfoil hat.
Yeah, you know, the "caution, reading this from outside the space station amy cause you to implode." and the "Unleaded Fuel Only." and of course the "Oxygen in use, avoid all sparks or open flames." Oh, and the bumper sticker"My other shit can doesn't orbit."
The debris seen floating away from the ISS pales in comparison to the latest piece of ejecta.
Apparently, the communication module for the ISS broke away last week, and was large enough to survive re-entry to the earth's atmosphere.
Officials tracked the piece via radar until it impacted somehwere in NYC.
Officials now say they have located the piece, which is in the possession of a street rapper named J-pod. When asked if he would return the piece to scientists for further investigation, he replied, "No WAY, dog...this thing bumps so loud and picks some so many stations...I ain't givin' it back to NObody!"
(with apologies to SNL for their original piece on skylab way back when)
Damn mods, I've never been modded +anything for funny. This was my best attempt. I'm a complete failure. MUST POST SOMETHING FUNNY!
Mod +5 Drunk
I gotta get me some of those bills!
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Yes, I have heard better...
Like the time on Rigel 7 when Scotty had be hitting the Uridian Brandy. I laughed so hard my rug slipped off!
Yes, thank God for American movies like Gigli.
In the past, during periods of strong rhythmic thumping on an exercise device,
Is that the space euphemism for "having sex"?
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I don't quite understand how they just assume these are russian parts floating away? I certainly would find it a bit disturbing whatever it was though... maybe they should have used duct tape?
I sure hope they don't lose the Blue Alert bulb.
No, it's the manufacturers who keep everything closed-source.
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