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NASA Delays Shuttle Launch Until Monday

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the lightning-is-a-good-excuse dept.

rfunches writes "The Associated Press and the New York Times are now reporting that Atlantis will not launch Sunday. The delay will 'give engineers more time to determine whether one of the most powerful lightning strikes ever at a Kennedy Space Center launch pad caused any problems. The lightning Friday didn't hit the shuttle — it struck a wire attached to a tower used to protect the spacecraft from such strikes at the launch pad — but it created a lightning field around the vehicle, NASA managers said. The launch, planned for Sunday, now won't happen until at least Monday.'"

6 of 43 comments (clear)

  1. cleared for launch [time skips] delayed for Monday by w33t · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seeing news move this quickly reminds me of the Futurama episode "Time Keeps On Slipping", where time was skipping forward by hours, days and weeks every few minutes.

    LINDA:...Turning to entertainment news, teen singer Wendy might just be the latest
    [Time skips.]
    LINDA:...won three Grammys last night
    [Time skips. The picture of Wendy behind her has a "2984 - 3002" caption below it.]
    LINDA:...found dead in her bathtub.

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  2. Re:Lighting field? by FrostedWheat · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's where they grow the lightning.

  3. Johnny 5 by macadamia_harold · · Score: 4, Funny

    The delay will 'give engineers more time to determine whether one of the most powerful lightning strikes ever at a Kennedy Space Center launch pad caused any problems.

    That depends. Do they consider sentient robot life to be a "problem"?

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  4. Isn't this not a bad thing? by WhatDoIKnow · · Score: 1, Funny

    A lightening field? That sounds like it would be beneficial to the shuttle or to any spacecraft.

    What?.. What?.. WHAT?

    OH! a lightning field... Nevermind.

    :wq

  5. I like how they harvest lightning by Prophetic_Truth · · Score: 3, Funny

    wow

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  6. Re:Lighting field? by david.given · · Score: 2, Funny

    Haven't you seen Flash Gordon?

    I am deeply, deeply ashamed to admit that I know exactly what you are talking about.

    Flaaaa-aaash...