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Space Station Slowly Falling Apart?

Posted by michael on from the baling-wire-and-duct-tape dept.

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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  1. get a clue... by kyshtock · · Score: 1, Redundant
    ...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!!!!

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    Bite my shiny metal... oops... Nevermind!