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International Space Station Gyroscope Fails
b00m3rang writes "Reuters reports that one of the three working gyroscopes that keep the international space station stable and in the right position stopped working, just hours after a new two-man crew moved in for a half-year stay."
Which way is up?
The Erogenous Zone
Or is this picture a little creepy? The american astronaut looks like a serial killer or something and the russian looks like he's afraid because the american looks like a killer...
I think it's a pretty good bet the circuit breakers on the International Space Station are absolutely nothing like the ones in your house.
Everything seemed to be going so nice
'till the end of all beings punched right through the ice
Why, for dramatic tension when somebody has to go EVA to replace the AE-35 unit, of course.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Any spacewalk to fix the gyroscope circuit breaker would be only the second time both station crew members would be outside the space station, leaving no one inside. I hope they remember the key.
NASA has finally decided it's time the ISS had centrifugal artificial gravity.
In Soviet Russia, spacestation rotates you!!
"It's the smell! If there is such a thing." Agent Smith - The Matrix
Mmpff, So for the second time in history a dutch man goes into space.
And first thing he does is break the bludy spacestation !.
So typical.
On behalf of all dutch , sorry people, we can't help it, we like to break things.
-- forget
From the article:
... is outside (the station) and that implies we'll have to do an EVA," Suffredini said in a telephone news conference, using the acronym for extra-vehicular activity, or spacewalk."
"At this time, the box that holds that particular circuit breaker
Right...The controls for the fence are in the shack across the lot, past all the dinosaurs; the satellite uplink is in the shack across the lot, past all the marauding aliens; the circuit breaker is in the box, outside the space station. Go fix it Dave.
Any of the astronauts wearing a red shirt by the way?
Figures. Stuff always breaks when you move. They should be glad the moving guys avoided dropping the piano down the stairs or putting a hole in the wall.
"At this time, the box that holds that particular circuit breaker ... is outside (the station) and that implies we'll have to do an EVA,"
:)
So which monkey put the fuse box on the outside of a space station?
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Hubble has lost 3 of 6 gyros. It needs 3 to stay pointed in one direction and not spin out of control.
ISS has lost 1 of 3 gyros. It needs 2 to stay locked in 2 axis (I would imagine) which is crucial to keep one side pointed at "space" and one at earth.
Who will fail first? The beloved Hubble or the much-berated ISS? Only time, or perhaps a Foresight Exchange claim can tell.
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
I'll see your schadenfreude and karma, and raise you ennui.
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Hi guys welcome aboard the ISS, um just asking but did you happen to bring a gyroscope.. nope oh well never mind we should be ok unless another one.. *breaking sound*.. ahh crap
In other news, america's sensationalization and hype step up to new levels to combat the desensitization to hype brought on by Fox News' continuous looping of the same six stories four times per day.
top headline right now: nobody cares! an eyewitness at the NASA command center shrugged and commented "It really doesn't matter, they still have two gyros left. Ooh! Gyros. I think I'll have greek food for lunch." the pudgy scientist then led twelve of his friends to Olive Garden.
not to mention that the onboard computer has to agree to open the pod bay door...