@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
@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
@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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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.
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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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.
@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.
@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.
@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?
@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?
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?
@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.
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.
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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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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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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...where did they expect it to fall from then???
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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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Eleven years sir. Eleven damn years.
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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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Teh need an OMS burn like now!
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Astronaut: "Hey I got one! I got one!"
Mission Control: "Don't get cocky kid."
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