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Space Shuttle Atlantis Will Carry Basketballs Into Space
Having figured out everything there is to know about space, and being huge fans of Space Jam, NASA has left some of their sciencey stuff behind and made room for a pair of basketballs on the Space Shuttle Atlantis. One of the balls comes courtesy of The Harlem Globetrotters, and the other is on loan from the University of Chicago. It was used by Edwin Hubble in a 1909 victory against Indiana University. "It is only fitting that the team that has seen more of the world than any other in history would have a presence beyond the stratosphere," Globetrotters chief executive officer Kurt Schneider said in a news release.
What about Space Balls?
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That just seems wrong to me. They actually damaged something nearly 100 years old just to make it smaller. It could just be me, but they should have just taken it into space the way it was without damaging it. Seems shameful to me.
Farnsworth: While you were gone, the Globetrotters held a press conference informing everyone that I was a 'jive sucka.'
Even white men can jump.
So this is how the Gobetrotters get their own planet. I guess NASA was impressed with their show-boating Globetrotter algebra enough to lend them a space shuttle.
1. Deflate Globetrotters ball
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2. Cut open century-old ball
3. Send up to space and bring back.
4.
5. What exactly?
Set your phasers on "funky"!
Been there, done almost that...
No me, but:
Today, the European Space Agency hosted a unique sporting event. Supported by the World Flying Disc Federation and sanctioned by the Swedish Frisbee Sport Federation, STS-116 mission specialist Christer Fuglesang broke the world record in the flying disc sporting discipline MTA, Maximum Time Aloft.
ESA believes that this is the first ever sanctioned sports event that has taken place in space.
The rules of MTA are simple: A player shall attempt to throw the disc in such a fashion that the disc remains airborne for as long as possible, before catching the disc himself. The timing of the flight of the throw shall be measured from the instant is initially touched in the catching attempt.
In this specific competition, Christer was free to waive the recommendation in the rules that an additional disc be available in the event a disc was lost or becomes unsuitable for use.
Fuglesang's record-setting attempt at MTA had an air time between his toss and catching the disc of 20 seconds.
Until today, the MTA world record stood at 16.72 seconds and was set by Don Cain on May 26, 1984, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The sanction for the attempt to break it was formally announced by the Swedish Frisbee Sport Federation on December 10, 2006.
(from: http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum30/HTML/000476.html)
After all, he is an official honorary Harlem Globetrotter!
And didn't they invent Jello Pudding for NASA or something? It's so high-tech, they must have.
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I haven't heard of a basketball in space since Hardware Wars!
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