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Space Shuttle Goes Back to Work

dalewj writes "The Discovery rolled over from the Orbiter Processing Facility to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center this morning. May 15th is the scheduled launch for STS-114. I was at NASA last month and got to see the payload for the space station thru lots of glass and I have to wonder, how far behind is the space station at this point?"

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  1. How far behind? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Very far. FP.

  2. Interesting Date by StratoChief66 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The day before my birthday. Too bad I'll be too busy working off my student loan to go see it. Its about time they went back up.

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  3. This just in: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Slashdot turns into AOL chat room.

    Come on ... "thru"?

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  5. Johnnie Cochran Dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    1. Re:Johnie Cochran is DEAD - GET SOME PRIORITIES! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  7. revolting SPAM by scenestar · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    IN THE MEAN TIME, {offtopic i know} what the hell are these horrilble lies of microsoft doing on the top of /. http://globalelements.nl/lies.JPG

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  8. Through by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and got to see the payload for the space station thru lots of glass Can Slasdot posters no longer type out whole words? I mean, my grammar sucks, but when I submit something, I put some effort into it, and I just don't slop something together. Or maybe, to flame the editors, could you read the story and replace "thru" with "through". Just a thought.

  9. Re:How far behind by LastRitea · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Could you imagine if we spent the past three years worth of the U.S. Military Budget on space??? Lets see the CIA is missing 1 Trillion. LOL See former CIA Director, now living in Israel. 2.5 Trillion in the Past three years on Military 3.5 Trillion now what could you build for that??? Anything

  10. Shuttle Launch a Harbinger by iamghetto · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    There is an infamous remote viewer by the name of Major Ed Dames who predicted that the relauch of the shuttle may soon be a harbinger of some serious danger on earth.

    For those that don't know, remote viewing was something that was started by the U.S. government under the name "Project Stargate" where they essentially trained people to be "psychic". Basically, they could remotely view any location/time from with in their minds eye, if you will.

    Anyways, Major Ed Dames was an early member of Project Stargate, and has made a number of predictions of varying accuracy. But just yesterday, a prediction he made came true. He predicted that another large earthquake (around 8 richter) would hit indonesia before the end of March. Sure enough, it just happened. It could've been a well-informed or lucky guess. I tend to think he genuinely remote viewed the event however.

    That said Remote Viewing is far from 100% accurate. Those in it claim about 80%-90% accuracy, I'd say its closer to 40%.

    Regardless, a while back he predicted that the shuttle would be re-commisioned, and on one of its launches it would be grounded due to meteor activitiy. The events he claims that will shortly follow that event, are nothing short of cataclysmic. In short, the earths magnetic field weakens leaving earth susceptible to violent solar flare strikes.

    To say the least, I take any and all things "remote viewed" with a grain of salt. But the fact is, he was right about the Indonesian earthquake, and one of his next predictions was about the shuttle being grounded. If the shuttle gets grounded, I'm going to be a little bit nervous.

    I'm not a big Ed Dames fan myself, and before last night I just basically viewed him as a source of entertainment. Lets hope for all of us it stays that way. :)