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Atlantis Links Up To Hubble For Repairs

Posted by timothy on from the hey-baby-I-see-the-stars-in-your-eyes dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Space Shuttle Atlantis has finally caught up with the Hubble Space Telescope after following it for several hours. The 'link up' between the Space Shuttle and Hubble was a very delicate one as the two were flying through space at 17,200 MPH, 300 miles above the Earth's surface. The robotic arm of the shuttle grappled the telescope at 1:14 PM EDT today. The telescope will be latched to a high-tech Lazy Susan device known as the Flight Support System for the duration of the servicing work."

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  1. The Hubble can repair the Shuttle? by j-stroy · · Score: 2, Funny

    What about the supplies?

    1. Re:The Hubble can repair the Shuttle? by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 5, Funny

      If Slashdot allowed image posting, this is where I'd post that picture from "UHF" where all the Asian dudes come out of the closet and yell "SUPPLIES!"

      But I can't do that, so the point is probably moo.

    2. Re:The Hubble can repair the Shuttle? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I can't do that, so the point is probably moo.

      t

      Hi, you dropped this while typing your post. I thought you might want it back.

    3. Re:The Hubble can repair the Shuttle? by Ihmhi · · Score: 4, Funny

      Joey: Because if he doesn't like you, this is all a moo point.
      Rachel: Huh. A moo point?
      Joey: Yeah, it's like a cow's opinion. It just doesn't matter. It's moo.

      --
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  2. ILzy Susan? by eln · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that like an epileptic version of a lazy susan? I don't even know how you make a typo like that without having some sort of seizure.

    1. Re:ILzy Susan? by kpainter · · Score: 4, Funny

      I just assumed it was another Apple product. iLzy Susan.

  3. Relative speeds by ergo98 · · Score: 5, Funny

    So they're going 17,200mph relative to the surface of the Earth? How fast are they going relative to some arbitrarily fixed point in the universe? Relative to another galaxy, we're hurtling towards it at some million mph, so maybe count that in as well.

    I am reaching for my pop can while we travel at over 1 million miles per hour. SUCCESS! POP CAN LINKUP COMPLETE!

    1. Re:Relative speeds by TopSpin · · Score: 4, Funny

      How fast are they going relative to some arbitrarily fixed point in the universe?

      I am also manipulating a soda container at 552 km/s (1.23M mph), relative to the CMB rest frame. Most highly trained soda operators are capable of this.

      --
      Lurking at the bottom of the gravity well, getting old
    2. Re:Relative speeds by networkBoy · · Score: 3, Funny

      no you mean 64.
      it's just that your arbitrary reference for 0 is what others call +1.
      Cheers,
      -nB

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  4. Not very difficult... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I used to bullseye wamprats in my T16 back home and they're not much bigger than the hubble

    1. Re:Not very difficult... by Convector · · Score: 2, Funny

      "What's that?"

      "It appears to be the Mother Ship."

      "Then what did we just blow up?"

      "The Hubble Telescope."

  5. Re:impressive/not impressive by mea37 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "flying through space at 17,200 MPH, 300 miles above the Earth's surface. " Not impressive.

    Then let's see you do it.

  6. Re:Speed figures are meaningless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I don't know, during my flight home I had a pretty hard time getting my microUSB plug traveling at 500mph linked up to my cell phone traveling at 500mph.

  7. Re:17,000 mph by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Your precise calculation is off. If they moved at 0mph the linkup would occur, oh i'd say, never.

    *queue smartass replies with inches per hour in scientific notation*

  8. It was the hardest kiss in my life by Bruce+Perens · · Score: 2, Funny

    She and I were standing on the earth, which was moving around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour. We struggled to make our lips meet...

    --
    Bruce Perens.
    1. Re:It was the hardest kiss in my life by H0p313ss · · Score: 2, Funny

      She and I were standing on the earth, which was moving around the sun at 67,000 miles per hour. We struggled to make our lips meet...

      You're a lucky man! Most of my liaisons appear to be with people who are not on the same planet as me at all.

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      XML is a known as a key material required to create SMD: Software of Mass Destruction
  9. Re:Speed figures are meaningless by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I once nailed a broad on the red eye out of LA. My johnson was moving at roughly 31,680,008 inches per second compared to her tawdry 31,680,000 inches per second.

  10. Re:impressive/not impressive by maxume · · Score: 4, Funny

    Do you have a U.S. government that I can borrow for awhile?

    --
    Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
  11. Re:How about Relative Speed? by ITJC68 · · Score: 3, Funny

    It would have been more challenging if they were going in separate directions and tried to link up. That would have been worth seeing.

  12. Re:How about Relative Speed? by confused+one · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't understand it either, as I sit here, very carefully typing, going 17,880 MPH around the Sun.

  13. Re:How about Relative Speed? by sveard · · Score: 3, Funny

    we can even land on asteroids: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbFVPDhlIBQ

    (use footage from nasa's archives, not movies!)

  14. 17,200, shmeventeen thousand two hundred... by tjonnyc999 · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa80/austolyso/motivation/1196539615059.jpg

  15. Re:How about Relative Speed? by Trevorm7 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm pretty sure it's much more difficult to land a jet on an air craft carrier, but I wouldn't know for sure.

    I would! TOP GUN - by the Angry Nintendo Nerd Start at 2:10

  16. Re:How about Relative Speed? by butalearner · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can't understand it either, as I sit here, very carefully typing, going 17,880 MPH around the Sun.

    I find it very amusing that such an orbital speed would put you somewhere in the neighborhood of Uranus.

  17. Re:How about Relative Speed? by BrokenHalo · · Score: 2, Funny

    I find it very amusing that such an orbital speed would put you somewhere in the neighborhood of Uranus.

    Just so long as he's not in the neighbourhood of mine.