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."

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Good idea

[andih8u]

Link to a geocities site on /.

That should last about 2 mins before it goes over bandwidth allowances.

Re:"These Quotes"

[yomimono]

Holy ugly-block-of-text, Batman! Let's try that again, this time with line breaks.

# "It fits like a glove, Captain." -- Scotty, Where No Man Has Gone Before, stardate 1312.4, Episode 2

# "Even if we were under full scale attack I couldn't move any faster, not and maintain a safety factor." -- Scotty, The Naked Time, stardate 1704.2, Episode 7

# "That was a pretty good gamble." -- Scotty, The Galileo Seven, stardate 2821.5, Episode 14

# "I'd love to tear this baby apart." -- Scotty, Space Seed, stardate 3141.9, Episode 24

# "The warp drive is a hopeless pile of junk." -- Scotty, The Doomsday Machine, stardate 4202.9, Episode 35

# "The shape the thing's in it's hard to keep it from blowin'." -- Scotty, The Doomsday Machine, stardate 4202.9, Episode 35

# "Laddie...don't you think you should...rephrase that?" -- Scotty, The Trouble With Tribbles, stardate 4523.3, Episode 42

# "It's, uh, it's green!" -- Scotty, By Any Other Name, stardate 4657.5, Episode 50

# "Any man who could perform such a feat, I wo'd na dare disappoint. She'll launch on time. And she'll be ready." -- Scotty, Star Trek: The Motion Picture

# "It's borderline on the simulator, we need to do more tests." -- Scotty, Star Trek: The Motion Picture

# "Just a minute, Exec, we're picking up the pieces down here." -- Scotty, Star Trek: The Motion Picture

# "The engine imbalance is what caused the worm-hole in the first place. It'll happen again if we don't fix it." -- Scotty, Star Trek: The Motion Picture

# "We can't take another attack." -- Scotty, Star Trek: The Motion Picture

# "Just the batteries. I can give you inpulse power in a couple minutes." -- Scotty, Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan

# "Aye. And if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon." -- Scotty, Star Trek III: The Search For Spock

# "A chimpazee and two trainees could run her." -- Scotty, "Thank you. I'll try not to take that personally." -- Kirk, Star Trek III: The Search For Spock

# "Scotty, you're as good as your word." -- kirk, "Aye sir, the more they overtake the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain." -- Scotty, Star Trek III: The Search For Spock

# "Aye. Warp drive standing by." -- Scotty, Star Trek III: The Search For Spock

# "I find it hard to believe I've traveled millions of miles..." -- Scotty, "...thousands..." -- McCoy, "...thousands of miles for an invited tour..." -- Scotty, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

# "A ship is a ship." -- Kirk, "Whatever you say...thy will be done." -- Scotty, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

# "I know this ship like the back of my hand (bonk)." -- Scotty, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

# "All I can say is...they don't make them like they used ta." -- Scotty, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

# "How many times da I have to tell ya...the right tool for the right job!" -- Scotty, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

# "Finding retirement a wee bit lonely, aren't we?" -- Scotty to Kirk, Star Trek VII: Generations

# "I've given her all she's got captain, and I can't give her no more." -- Scotty, (Several Times)

# "She won't take much more of this." -- Scotty, (Several Times)

# "This jurry-rigging won't last for long..." -- Scotty, (Several Times)

# "Are ya daft lad!!!" -- Scotty to Geordi LaForge, Relics

# "NCC 1701. No bloody A, B, C, or D." -- Scotty yelling at the Enterprise-D's holodeck computer, Relics

# "It's...it's... ... ...um, it's green." -- Data to Scotty, refering to an unmarked bottle of alcoholic content while with him in Ten Forward, Relics

get a clue...

[kyshtock]

...and get the equivalent of a net.

And, by the way, falling??? That baby is on the orbit! If something goes one way, something else (presumably the ISS) pushed it. There are some funny things here: 1. the ISS is loosing parts; 2. It's likely that those parts will return (orbit, remember), maybe with some velocity; 3. I'll be delighted when some fancy top secret military satelite will get a nice russian bolt right in it's precisely calibrated lens. THAT hopefully will be the closest thing to star wars, or whatever was the hyphen some decades ago.

Mr. President, postphone a little the Mars trip, the station is about to fall on your empty suit, sir, mr. President, sir.

INCOMING!!!!

Like... what?

[Greyfox]

Didn't we send any space duct tape up? Just wrap the whole damn thing up in a big ball of duct tape. It'll be fine!

^^ Mod +5 Funny ^^

[John Seminal]

ROFL!!! You should write for a comedy show.