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    Pensioners Attacked by Space Junk and/or Aliens

    NASA Grounds Shuttle Fleet

    ISS and Discovery In Debris Collision Danger, NASA Thinking About Course Change

    Satellite Collision Could Doom the Hubble Telescope

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    Image of Bokusatsu_Tenshi Bokusatsu_Tenshi
    10/16/09

    In reply to Pensioners Attacked by Space Junk and/or Aliens
    Well, what can I say? Planetes.
    [xspblog.com] #spacejunk
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    10/16/09

    In reply to Pensioners Attacked by Space Junk and/or Aliens
    Oh, THAT'S where I left that. #spacejunk
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    Image of Deep-Blue Deep-Blue
    10/16/09

    In reply to Pensioners Attacked by Space Junk and/or Aliens
    Hmm... what a coincidence that this happens less than a week after we BOMB THE MOON.

    This is the beginning its counterattack, mark my words... #spacejunk
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    Image of psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!
    10/16/09

    In reply to Pensioners Attacked by Space Junk and/or Aliens

    That is a piece of the moon. "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!!"

    How I hated that chicken... #spacejunk
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    Image of michelinman85 michelinman85
    10/16/09

    @psychonaut2021: Jesus is THE man!:dude I haven't seen or heard of that game in ages! #spacejunk
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    Image of michelinman85 michelinman85
    10/16/09

    @michelinman85: Kings Quest 7 FTW! #spacejunk
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    Image of psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!
    10/16/09

    @michelinman85: I was just playing it yesterday! I got the firecracker bug that causes her to blow up every second, but somehow managed to make it all the way to the crypt. The horseman flew by and stoped the timer on the firecracker long enough for me to blow the crypt open. Needless to say, it took me almost a half hour to get to the damn crypt from the pumpkin house. #spacejunk
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    Image of dingus dingus
    10/16/09

    @psychonaut2021: Jesus is THE man!: You know what I hate, man? When you go to see the big gold Buddha, and you pick the leaf with the virus on it. #spacejunk
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    Image of psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!
    10/16/09

    @dingus: Did you rub his belly with the Divine Golden Sponge of Aquarius first? It comes after the Dull Blade of Pisces. When you do that, it causes the Pineal Gland statue to stop rotating clockwise. It then begins to rotate counter clockwise, levitates, a star gate opens up and a mermaid comes out of the Star gate. She then proceeds to tell you that all of the leaves are evil, and hands you some brocoli romanesco. Study it's pattern, to find out that she's telling you something about the third density. Once you have unlocked the secret, a pine cone comes out of the brocoli. You have to put it on top of the buddhas head after, and the buddhas belly will burst with golden rings. Make sure you don't hit any spikes before you collect at least one golden ring, otherwise you will lose a life!

    Also I think the Duke will hand out vaccines to prevent any further illnesses from the leaves. Truth is, the vaccines ARE what causes the illnesses to begin with! TREACHEARY IS AFOOT! #spacejunk
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    Image of dingus dingus
    10/17/09

    @psychonaut2021: Secrets of the Pineal Gland: #spacejunk
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    Image of gman112574 gman112574
    10/16/09

    In reply to Pensioners Attacked by Space Junk and/or Aliens
    looks like one of the missing tiles from the bottom of the shuttle
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    Image of psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you!
    10/16/09

    @#spacejunk Do you have any idea of how light those tiles are?

    Nevermind I'm just being obnoxious...sorry :(
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    Edited by psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! at 10/16/09 11:58 AM psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! was starred psychonaut2021:That's Mr Psychonaut to you! was unstarred
    Image of asten77 asten77
    07/17/09

    In reply to NASA Grounds Shuttle Fleet
    never a good thing to ground a fleet when 1/3rd of it is moving at 17kMPH
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    07/17/09

    In reply to NASA Grounds Shuttle Fleet
    "Engineers didn't expect it to fall from this area"


    ...where did they expect it to fall from then???
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    07/17/09

    @nutbastard: I thought the whole point was to engineer a system in which the insulation didn't fall off at all...
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    Image of Margatron Margatron
    07/17/09

    @nutbastard: Probably from areas that sustain the most amount of forces, either pressure or heat/cold. That said, it's foam. Foam breaks.
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    Image of NurseDave NurseDave
    07/17/09

    In reply to NASA Grounds Shuttle Fleet
    For crap sake, why can't they just let Google run the space program? We'd freaking be driving on Mars by now. Well, in beta of course.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    07/17/09

    @NurseDave: Not enough Ad revenue on mars to justify the expense.
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    Image of Margatron Margatron
    07/17/09

    @NurseDave: Google Mars?
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    Image of Geisrud Geisrud
    07/17/09

    @Margatron: Believe: http://www.google.com/mars/
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    Image of PurpleMonkeyDishwasher: PurpleMonkeyDishwasher:
    07/17/09

    In reply to NASA Grounds Shuttle Fleet
    It's astounding that with all the hours of planning involved there are still unpredictable events. This time it wasn't bad, but you never know what will happen next time.
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    Image of TheCrudMan TheCrudMan
    07/17/09

    In reply to NASA Grounds Shuttle Fleet
    There's got to be a better way to do this with the existing shuttle platform than simply covering the ET (which is disposable if I'm not mistaken) with foam. It's 2009 we can't make foam that doesn't fly off or a cold tank that doesn't get covered in ice? If we can build a dog-bowl out of carbon fibre we can do this.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    07/17/09

    @TheCrudMan: Well, remember that we still can not seal the fuel tanks of the Sr-71, and it's been in service for how long?
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    Image of TheCrudMan TheCrudMan
    07/17/09

    @BoardShortin'_GitEmSteveDave:
    Yeah but that's about making a change on an existing aircraft--new ETs are made from the ground up for every flight--should be easy to make a design change since new ones are being fabricated.
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    Image of joelydanger joelydanger
    07/17/09

    @BoardShortin'_GitEmSteveDave: My understanding is that the SR-71 is designed to be this way for a couple of reasons. Because of really high temperatures at higher speeds the frame expands and seals itself. The leaky fuel isn't a problem because it's flashpoint is also very high so its not a fire hazard. Its even used as a coolant while its running along the inside of the frame. The only issue is that the fuel dripped on the runway is really slippery. So they only give it enough fuel for takeoff and then a tanker is used for in-flight refueling.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    07/17/09

    @joelydanger: From what I understood they fuel it a lot since it leaks so much, but I did know about the expansion. I also read in Air Smithsonian magazine that they tried sealants, but none would work, which is why they let it seal itself, but they still don't have anything that would work, if they tried to use it. I think I read that you can toss a lit match into a bucket of the fuel, and it would douse the match.
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    Image of joelydanger joelydanger
    07/17/09

    @BoardShortin'_GitEmSteveDave: Oh I didn't know they tried using sealants for it. I wonder if its because of the chemical composition at higher temperatures that doesn't let it seal, or a corrosiveness when it comes into contact with the fuel or something else?
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    Image of avconsumer2 avconsumer2
    07/17/09

    @BoardShortin'_GitEmSteveDave: Fix'd... "Well, remember that we still can not seal the fuel tanks of the Sr-71, and it's been out of service for how long?

    Eleven years sir. Eleven damn years.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    07/17/09

    @avconsumer2: well, 10 if we include NASA using them.
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    07/17/09

    In reply to NASA Grounds Shuttle Fleet
    Can someone correct me if something I heard is wrong? Is it true NASA had to switch the mixture of the foam they used to remove a potentially harmfull chemical that would have stopped all of these "flaking" issues?
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    Image of NurseDave NurseDave
    07/17/09

    @BoardShortin'_GitEmSteveDave: Compared to how a shuttle launch is "green" otherwise?
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    Image of kbarrett kbarrett
    07/17/09

    @BoardShortin'_GitEmSteveDave: That is exactly what happened. They changed the foam composition to lower CFC emissions, resulting in chunks falling off ... including the one that wrecked the last one.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked GitEmSteveDave_Isn'tFreshPerked
    07/17/09

    @kbarrett: So we lost brave astronauts to save some baby chicks somewhere? No wonder SpaceBat left.
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    03/16/09

    In reply to ISS and Discovery In Debris Collision Danger, NASA Thinking About Course Change
    It's interesting that this keeps happening lately when officials made vague references to the fact that in-space collisions had happened a few times in the past.


    Oh well, I guess we know the first working forcefields will be used to repel space junk from delicate equipment, haha.

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    Image of bandit bandit
    03/16/09

    In reply to ISS and Discovery In Debris Collision Danger, NASA Thinking About Course Change
    By the way, I fly radio-contol airplanes at a local field. Sometimes we have 5 planes up at once, over a field that's roughly 500' wide by 1500' long. Yet mid-air collisions are rare. (They do happen; I've never seen one personally.) We fly in the same general direction but there is no "ATC" You just try to avoid each other and not think about it. Now, considering that the consequences of a mid-air are only a few hundred dollars in equipment, I understand the difference here. But I think the bottom line is that the odds are exceedingly low given how much space is actually out there.
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    Image of something_unique_and_descriptive something_unique_and_descriptive
    03/16/09

    @bandit: Here's the difference, those RC planes are controlled, the stuff that would be impacting the ISS, or anything else for that matter, aren't.
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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/16/09

    In reply to ISS and Discovery In Debris Collision Danger, NASA Thinking About Course Change
    Oh no! Teh kids are in trouble!


    Teh need an OMS burn like now!

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    Image of Unabageler Unabageler
    03/16/09

    In reply to ISS and Discovery In Debris Collision Danger, NASA Thinking About Course Change
    I'm waiting for the tapes of the first laser battle against debris:


    Astronaut: "Hey I got one! I got one!"


    Mission Control: "Don't get cocky kid."

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    03/16/09

    @Unabageler: Not until we need to build ships that are too heavy to launch into orbit.
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