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Discovery Prepares for Return
Kailash Nadh writes "Discovery's astronauts packed up their stuff on Friday as they prepared to undock from the international space station now that NASA has cleared the shuttle to return to Earth next week.
Their most difficult task before leaving the station was the maneuvering of a huge cargo container filled with 2 1/2 years worth of trash into the shuttle's payload bay. Once back on Earth, the items would either be disposed of or returned to researchers."
"... So we went out there with our shovels and rakes and implements of destruction, and we loaded all that trash into the back of a Boeing orbiter, went back inside the space station, and had a Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat."
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Attention... Would those of you who have trash from the ISS please come and claim it? If you don't pick up your trash in hanger 12 by 4:00pm, it will be disposed of at your expense. That is all."
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Well they're going home anyway, it's not like they're doing the trip just to take the rubbish back
It's probably useful to know what happens when you keep rubbish in space for several years anyway
Prepare for the flood of "why don't they just drop the garbage into the atmosphere and let it burn up" questions.
Patrick Doyle
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Why should I care about a few brown people who died thousands of miles away in a perfectly natural event?
It's the new NASA funding plan:
1. Collect space garbage
2. Ebay
3. Profit!!!
Next time, get ahold of Richard Benjamin, Tim Thomerson, Richard Kelton, Tricia Barnstable, Cyb Barnstable and Conrad Janis.
There's a Starman, waiting in the sky / He'd like to come and meet us, but he hasn't got the time.
LISTER: Quagars? ... a roast chicken.
RIMMER: Quagaaaars! It's a name I made up! Double A, actually! I believe the Quagaars have the technology to give me a new body!
LISTER: The perfectly preserved remains of a Quagaar warrior!
LISTER: Yeah, right, Rimmer. Absolutely.
RIMMER: They must have looked something like
RIMMER: IT'S A SMEGGING GARBAGE POD!!
Sorry about the writing. Robot fingers, you know? Cliff Steele in DOOM PATROL #23
Seems more like an 'itinerary'...but anyways...
-Go out shopping for food, supplies *tick*
-Take vehicle for preventative repairs/maintenance (done...sort of)
-Fill up vehicle *tick*
-Check tires (give it a kick)
-Blast off *tick*
-arrive at camp site
-Unload food and supplies *tick*
-Check vehicle still okay (done...issues found)
* had to go underbonnet to remove some stuff
* inspected paint job near windscreen?
-Clean up room
-Bag trash-rubbish, put back into vehicle *tick*
-Depart camp site *tick*
-Arrive home
(and that's the weekend!)
It's actually pretty hard to hit the sun from here.
Not to mention that its the only one we have. Lets not be hurling random processed debris into what could be a very delicately balanced mass reaction chamber, when we have not got clue one as to what the short or long term effects might be.
It ain't like a fire, only bigger.
What he can't kill, he has sex on. Trent.
Yeah. Calculate how much energy that would take. It's actually pretty hard to hit the sun from here.
Fine, Mr. Wizard, do your calculations. Just bear in mind while you're doing your math stuff that astronauts are in peak physical condition. Also, they'll be pitching the garbage overhand, not underhand.
Your courageous and selfless spelling corrections have made me a better person.
Ok, so Scottie started a fight with the Klingons when they referred to the Enterprise as 'a garbage scow'.
But now the term honestly applies to the Space Shuttle.
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