How To Steal a Space Shuttle

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 5, 2012 @06:56AM from the discovering-an-enterprising-endeavor dept.

An anonymous reader tips a piece by Jason Torchinsky at Jalopnik, who attended the California Science Center's press conference about moving Space Shuttle Endeavour through Los Angeles to its final resting place. While he was there, he noticed that security for the event was focused less on the shuttle than on keeping the city itself safe. So, after a helpful LAPD officer suggested it would be impossible for a supervillain to make off with OV-105, Torchinsky went ahead and made a plan to do just that. All he needs is a submarine, a score of Sikorsky CH-53E heavy-lift helicopters, a salvaged and disguised Buran spaceplane, and the assistance of Switzerland.

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Maybe it would be easier to just re-launch it? by stillnotelf · 2012-10-05 06:58 · Score: 5, Funny

Surely they wouldn't follow him into space, and it's kind of a supervillian thing to do!
Trivial by DeeEff · 2012-10-05 07:04 · Score: 5, Funny

It becomes almost trivial to steal a spaceship once you're President of the Galaxy.
These are the types of two faced men we should watch out for.
too late by badford · 2012-10-05 07:17 · Score: 5, Funny

What makes you think that is the real shuttle?...mwuhuhahahaha [evil laughter trails off]

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first the maple syrup by nimbius · 2012-10-05 07:18 · Score: 5, Funny

now the space shuttle. when will the evil stop?

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