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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."
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!
There goes the $10,000 wrench. There goes the $20,000 hammer...
There's a growing sense that even if The Future comes,
most of us won't be able to afford it.
-- Lemmy
This clearly has to be the bottle of finegrain Wodka I lost just the other day !
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Yeah, Mir==Peace, apparently ISS==Piece(s)
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
. . .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?
Objects in Mir are closer than they appear.
Ooops. Wrong station.
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
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.