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Satellite Debris Forces ISS Crew Into Rescue Craft

Posted by timothy on from the plenty-of-mint-gum dept.

Muad'Dave writes "CNN is reporting that the crew of the International Space Station was forced to take refuge from a possible collision of the ISS with a piece of space debris Thursday. From the article: 'Floating debris from a satellite forced the crew of the international space station to retreat to a safety capsule Thursday, according to a NASA news release. .. The debris was too close for the space station to move out of the way, so the station's three crew members were temporarily evacuated to a the station's Soyuz TMA-13 capsule, NASA said.'" Update: 03/12 18:42 GMT by T : The original story incorrectly said the ISS had 18 crew members. Luckily for the three in the Soyuz, that was a mistake.

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  1. Lasers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is just another reason to invest in laser defenses. Preferably sharks with fricken' lasers on their heads.

    1. Re:Lasers by oodaloop · · Score: 5, Funny

      Why didn't they just reverse the polarity on the shields? Do I have to think of everything myself?

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    2. Re:Lasers by inerlogic · · Score: 5, Funny

      can't run the shields and the transporter at the same time.....

      deflector dish must've been tied up by those assholes in stellar cartography.....

      they're always tyin that MFin deflector dish up.....

    3. Re:Lasers by Deag · · Score: 4, Funny

      well they probably still have that golf club for the publicity stunt a while back, so they should send one guy out on space walk and have him start swinging.

    4. Re:Lasers by dkleinsc · · Score: 4, Funny

      An excellent plan, sir, with just 2 major drawbacks: (1) We don't have any shields, and (2) we don't have a any shields. I realize this is technically just one drawback, but I thought it was so important it was worth mentioning twice.

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    5. Re:Lasers by mrdoogee · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, a hockey stick would work much better.

    6. Re:Lasers by Plunky · · Score: 5, Funny

      Gee, imagine if every time something was a teensy bit difficult we didn't even try..

    7. Re:Lasers by Ced_Ex · · Score: 2, Funny

      The deflector dish was jammed... strawberry flavour I think.

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    8. Re:Lasers by Gilmoure · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, I'm home sick today.

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  2. Nice reporting by sunking2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    18 crew memebers? Are they shooting a Girls Gone Wild video up there or something?

    1. Re:Nice reporting by Shakrai · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'd bittorrent that.

      Fixed that for you

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    2. Re:Nice reporting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      ... for a dollar.

    3. Re:Nice reporting by Em+Emalb · · Score: 2, Funny

      You're right. And I for one am beginning to question how they got 213 midgets and a donkey in the space station.

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  3. TMA-13? by Tibor+the+Hun · · Score: 2, Funny

    WTF? Are they hauling them back from Jupiter now?

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  4. So androids don't count, huh? by StefanJ · · Score: 2, Funny

    Bigot! Someday we will rise up against our . . . uh, oh, never mind. Human here. Not an escaped replicant.

  5. In other news by djupedal · · Score: 4, Funny

    .... slashdope editors were hit in the head with falling space debris today, further complicating their inability to detect sloppy facts.

    This has not impacted their availability and readers are cautioned to continue questioning anything masquerading as fact.

    1. Re:In other news by Sleepy · · Score: 2, Funny

      ... There goes your ability to EVER moderate posts again... ;-)

  6. Re:This is starting to get silly... by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just say who ever pays the biggest portion gets to put weapons in space~

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  7. Re:Debris Details by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This report was clearly fabricated to conceal the fact that it was actually the size and shape of an astronaut's tool bag...