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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.
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.
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)
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"
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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Anyone but me misunderstand "Crack Found in Shuttle Tank"? XD And here I was thinking astronauts were smuggling drugs into space.