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ISS Oxygen Generator Fails for Good
billyj4 writes "A balky Russian oxygen generator broke down on the International Space Station, but its two-man crew has a reserve air supply that would last about five months, NASA officials said Friday.
The station's primary generator, which has been operating in an on-again, off-again fashion for months, stopped working last week and the station's crew has not been able to fix it.
Mission managers say the unit has failed for good. Consequently, Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and U.S. astronaut John Phillips will be relying on reserves until replacement parts arrive at the station in late August."
A balky Russian oxygen generator broke down
I thought Balky was from Meepos?
riiiidiculus!
Sure NASA says the parts are coming, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
Oh No He Didn't!
Oh Yes He Did!
Ha ha ha, but seriously, I hope they don't die.
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... the last food supplies only contained chili beans. Poor guys.
Wanna bet that if their Vodka generator would brake they could fix it ?
Da. Just remove the brakes and it vill vork again.
And I guess we had the Mir?
"Hmm. I am to metaphor cheese as metaphor cheese is to transitive verb crackers!"
Oh, I dunno... Maybe the remote possibility of RUNNING OUT OF OXYGEN AND DYING?
What if the mission to send replacement parts fails? What if the escape vehicle doesn't work?
I get a little stressed when we run out of coffee at work, to each their own I guess.
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First they ran out of supply line(2003), then they ran out of food(2004), and now they are running out of oxygen. What will the next thing be? Will they run out of orbit?
Somebody Send Us Up The Parts!
... why can we not send up a replacement machine?
The good news: it's still under warranty
The bad news: the manufacturer won't send out a replacement until they've received the broken unit
The really bad news: Sergei threw the crate out after they unpacked it, so they've go nothing to ship it in
The really, really bad news: When they do finally find something to ship it in, they're just going to kick it out of an airlock with a note attached: "If found, please return to We Scrub Air, Inc. P.S., sorry for landing on your grandmother"
- Despite popular opinion, I am not perfect.
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Hey there, partner! It looks like you're running out of oxygen!
What would you like to do?
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Here... I'll fill in the rest of the obligatory unfunny stupid jokes so that we can get on with our lives and have an intelligent discussion on the subject of the ISS:
Obligatory old Korean joke: Only old Koreans get stuck with no oxygen on ISS.
Obligatory underpants gnome joke:
1. Run out of oxygen.
2. ???
3. Profit!
Obligatory beowulf cluster joke: The oxygen generators: If only they'd had a beowulf cluster of these.
Obligatory MS joke: The oxygen generator must have been powered by Microsoft.
Obligatory Apple joke: The oxygen generator was useless because it only had one button.
Obligatory all-your-base joke: All your oxygen are belong to us! Someone sent us up the parts!
Obligatory Strong Bad joke: SUFFOCAT'D!!!
Obligatory everything else joke: The thought of Natalie Portman, petrified and naked, while they eat hot grits poured down each others' pants should help them to stave off suffocation, or at least be happy about it.
A month down the road:
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"Hey, guys--bad news. Turns out we were using the consumption rates in gallons of oxygen per minute, when we thought we were using liters! Heh, sorry about that."
"Guys? Hello?"
--Ribald
And then a tiny flec of paint punches throught he plastic biome the whole thing deflates, pushes the station out of orbit, and some crappy Starbase 2009! Tv Series starts.
Hmm relaxing by gardening plants, I can see where this is going, surely the astronauts are high enough?
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