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Did Bat Hitch a Ride To Space On Discovery?
suraj.sun writes "A bat was seen clinging to the external fuel tank of the Space Shuttle Discovery before its launch on Sunday, apparently clung for dear life to the side of the tank as the spaceship lifted off.
The shuttle accelerates to an orbital velocity of 17,500 milers per hour, which is 25 times faster than the speed of sound, in just over eight minutes. That's zero to 100 mph in 10 seconds.
Did it make it into space? No one knows yet. But photos of Discovery as it cleared the launch tower showed a tiny speck on the side of the tank. When those photos were blown up, it became apparent that the speck was a bat."
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I for one, welcome our new Space-Bat overlords.
Don't even joke about it. The second the die hard environmentalists hear about this, NASA will have to hire a team to check for bats.
cmd-q.co.uk - some sort of stupid fucking internet bullshit
They also aren't accelerating at that rate *constantly* for over 8 minutes... most of them peter out after maybe 15 seconds.
than no i don't think it made it to space.
Unless they took the tank to space somehow...
Or does the tank actually make it to what is considered 'space'by entering so sort of xxxxsphere
Fluid dynamics basically says that at very close distances to a surface, it doesn't matter how fast the fluid is flowing, the wind speed at the surface is very low, and approaches zero. So maybe he made it!
Until he got about halfway to orbit and then suffocated due to lack of oxygen, anyway....
You're messin' with my Zen Thing, man.....
Uhm, it's a CNN reporter, they don't actually think, never have and probably never will.
Awesome! I'm gonna make it a little bit better.
Are you?
I dont see why they would, the bat chose to go to space. who are environmentalists to decide what a bat should do with his life?? damn interlopers...
Animal rights activists and environmentalists are two different things. For one, an environmentalist would be far more concerned with the pollution from the rocket than they would worry about a single injured bat being killed.