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Crack Found in Shuttle Tank
hpulley writes "The shuttle's new fuel tank, supposedly redesigned to be safer, has a crack in it. Pictures were sent to the manufacturer who decided that it is too small to be worrisome. Hmm, what caused the Columbia disaster, pieces of foam?
Meanwhile, there will be a second shuttle on standby, just in case the first one has problems after being hit by foam, etc. If the first shuttle has a design flaw, what's to say the second one isn't afflicted by the same problem? Won't there be a good chance of them stranding the rescue crew in addition to the original crew? If an aircraft crashes and the redesign to fix it crashes, would you send another of the same type to rescue it? Of course not! The ISS is going to be a smelly, scary place with the regular complement and two shuttle crews onboard and no way home but a Russian Soyuz capsule that isn't slated to launch again until September and has seats for just three..."
They heard space was black, so of course they're trying to get crack there.
I think the summary needs more pessimism...
Viral software licensing is not freedom, it is in fact GNU/Socialism.
I thought what most people will think on seeing this headline. NASA's secret stash? Astronauts really are getting high these days.
"Sufferin' succotash."
Duct tape...
We should obviously give up on space then, it's just too hard. It costs too much and has some level of risk. If something's too hard it's not worth doing. The money should be spent on privitising social security or pumping oil out of Iraq.
It was the DEA agents who planted the crack in the tank firstplace.
I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
Here comes a deluge of +5 funnys. ...
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"I thought NASA had their funding cut not increased?"
"Does Bush know there's crack on the space shuttle? He would probably want to join in on the action".
"If I would knew there was crack available there, I would have paid more attention on the Cape Canaveral tour"
"I filter at +6, and have yet to miss out on an important comment." (#822545)
...but, I swear when I read the headline that they meant that crack (as in crack cocaine) was found in the shuttle tank. I was trying to figure out how someone who would have crack would even gain access to where the shuttle tanks are kept. I also got this mental image of a seedy character dropping a few rocks into this very large, very smooth metal container. Considering how much bad luck we've had with the shuttle projects, I wouldn't be surprised if there was a good deal of drug use happening there though. Probably not crack.
-"...bad old ideas look confusingly fresh when they are packaged as technology" - Jaron Lanier (Digital Maoism on Edge.o
It's pure Columbian crack.
Because Mr. Bush got tired of playing astronauts, and decided to start playing soldiers.
I could tell you why we are still using 30 year old shuttles but that would involve me using the Chewbacca Defense.
I wouldn't have even thought to look in the tanks.
500GB of disk, 5TB of transfer, $5.95/mo
NASA Engineer: "Oh shit, it's the cops. Hide the blow!"
NASA Engineer 2: "WHERE?!"
NASA Engineer: "In the tank, goddammit! We'll get it back in a couple minutes"
remember back when astronauts had balls?
Yeah, but this commander doesn't have one:
Go Cmdr. Collins!
Do you believe that some of the modifications may actually make it more dangerous?
:)
Well, shit, that's what happens every time I change my code....
Transcript from tonight's O'Reilly Factor (not really)...
(Season 3, episode 7 - The Day the Earth Stood Stupid)
Everyone on Earth, except Fry and Nibbler, suffers from acute and utter stupidity caused by an invasion of enormous brains.
Linda (newscaster): Hi! Today, some bad things happened. One bad thing was, a train go crashed in New Jersey. Wanna see? People won't be late for work, though, because the Governor lady said, "I'm sending in more trains."
picture of the crack
a metric assload of solid fuel
If you can't properly express your units of measure in standard Libraries on Congress I'll have nothing to do with your argument.
How's my typing? Call 1-800-eta-shut
Do error messages come in the form of "I am sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.", or what?
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something that's reusable and doesn't involve burning a metric assload of solid fuel and tend to cataclysmically explode.
Could you please convert that into American assloads, please? I have no idea what you are talking about otherwise.
Fictional Article #1:
A computer program to disable the CD-copy protection on one of the software applications onboard the shuttle has been found hidden in one of the external fuel tanks. Mr.Astrau Naut, Spokesperson for NASA said "We are not sure how it got there, but it's only a CD-crack for Office XP, so it's nothing to worry about. It's not like we violated the SCO license or anything.That could have had serious implications." It is thought that the crack was hidden in the tank to be implemented at a later stage on one of the laptops onboard.NASA shuttle crew delayed the launch to search for other cracks and key-generators in the shuttle.
A small inscription stating that "All your base are belong to us" have been found on the belly of the shuttle."We don't think it is a terrorist act" Pres. G.W Bush was quoted as saying when asked about it on the golf course.
"I used to have that really cool,funny sig
Hey kids dont do drugs! I know they found crack on the space shuttle but they need it to get high enough to leave the athmosphere! Just say no!
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Sorry Sanity and Slashdot.. not your normal cocktail for a balanced dicussion. Would you spend time trying to explain problems like this to a class of 12yr olds? .. welcome to slashdot.
Troll intended.
Anyone but me misunderstand "Crack Found in Shuttle Tank"? XD And here I was thinking astronauts were smuggling drugs into space.
Me, too. Who do these astronauts think they are, professional athletes?
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
"in those days?" Look around you, my friend. I refer you to the CAN-SPAM act, the USA-PATRIOT act, the CARE organization, and many other modern examples of this intellectually juvenile practice.
What you fail to account for is the fact that the poster is actually in the future, reading old slashdot articles (because after the Dupe-wars of 3109 duplicate articles are not allowed to exist, and so old stories are just recylcled to the front page). He then posted a reply to a comment, hoping to spark new heated debate in his time, but the constant striving for faster and faster computers has made machines that send commands backwards in time, and so the post became available for you to comment on.
At first, I thought John Delorean had come back from the grave and was working for NASA :-)