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Space Rope Trick Experiment Goes Awry
Tjeerd writes "An experiment that envisaged sending a parcel from space to Earth on a 30-kilometre tether fell short of its goal yesterday when the long fibre rope did not fully unwind, Russian Mission Control said.
It was intended to deliver a spherical capsule, called Fotino, attached to the end of the tether back to Earth — a relatively simple and cheap technology that could be used in the future to retrieve bulkier cargoes from space.""
I climbed up the rope and hid in my secret magic room until I felt rested. Then, I climbed down and did 10d4 damage to Fotino.
The reason for the problem wasn't immediately clear. "It could be that the tether got stuck," Lyndin said.
An experiment that envisaged sending a parcel from space to Earth on a 30-kilometre tether fell short of its goal yesterday when the long fibre rope did not fully unwind
So that's how UPS plans on routing packages in the future. Perhaps they realize that the only way to achieve more damage per parcel is to actually drop them from outer space.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
But, Planet Express is usually so reliable!
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This project hangs on a thread. I don't know if they'll be able to pull it off or knot. They have to make sure they don't get tied up on this setback. It really could unravel any day.
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...string theory.
The rope did not only not unwind fully, it started going back into the spacecraft. Representatives from the manufactuer of the rope-unwinding mechanism, Duncan YY Heavy Industries, were unavailable for comment.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
If they bothered to do some research they would've found out that the way to do this is to sit in a cloth, put on a turban, and play a flute in front of a basket with a rope coiled in it until it went up into the sky. Then you have a little kid climb up it.
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One would have thought that to drop something 150km one would need a 150km rope?
You don't know anything about space, clearly, so just shut up. Leave this stuff to us experts.
(aside: Hey Bob, I have an idea why our space tether idea didn't work our right, get this: what if we used MORE than 30km of...)
> Seriously, get off this planet.
We're trying. STFU.
In Russia, they spend millions of dollars developing space cable to lower object from space. In America, we just wait for gravity to bring it down!
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Since 30000 feet = 9.14km...
Ah wait...
This isn't NASA.
Nothing to see here, move along.
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Well, pushing rope is known to be a problem, while smoking rope is an acient passtime. When they finally did manage to talk to the satellite, it said: "Hey, dude...".
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!