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If you don't like to read about space tools, might I suggest one of the many fine offerings from US Weekly, OK! Magazine, or Harvey Levin's loved/hated TMZ.com.
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No doubt this little turdlet of input was meant as a troll. If you're going to create silent text vitriol, try elaborating on your idea a bit better.
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He did this by seemingly (live video) not listening to advice on his radio telling him to NOT press the trigger BEFORE being sure the bit head is IN the hex cap. Now I know that you need to apply a very large amount of power to get a worn cap out and that is something very hard to do in zero gravity (imaging trying to drill a hole in a pool underwater)
After one hour of soap I lost interest on how they were going to solve this in space. Plan B: exchange the bit for a sharper spare bit located somewhere in the bay of the Atlantis. In space this is a bit riskier and way more cumbersome than searching your backyard tool shed.
Plan B failed, dunno if Plan C "remove the complete handle" worked.
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How many time have you been orbiting the Earth and find yourself facing hard to reach or stuck screws. If you're anything like me, it happens to you more than you'd like. But have I got the solution! It's the Space Screw. Watch what happens when I try to unscrew this retaining nut on the Hubble. As soon as I hit any resistance, in a no gravity environment, I start spinning instead of the screw. Using Space Age technology, the Space Screw overcomes Newtons Laws so that when you hit that resistance, the screw keeps spinning, so you don't have to.
How much would you pay for such an advanced piece of hardware?
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For what it's worth, NASA contacted me a couple of years ago asking if I wanted to go into space. "Hells yeah, rocket-daddy!" I replied.
They gave me some instructional material to peruse. After reading through the brochures, I called up Canaveral. "Yo! cosmic homeys!" I began, "I think there's some missing pages here. Where's the tricorder? You want me to go into space and interact with new lifeforms and new civilizations and you don't give me a tricorder?"
"No, sir" the tech replied, "We don't give you a tricorder."
"So, then, I just, like buy one from the PX? What's the commissary budget like? I mean, I can see myself buying at least a month's salary worth of freeze-dried Neopolitan ice cream because it's just that good. But I want to make sure I have enough do-re-mi left over to buy myself a tricorder. What if they got those brain slugs that you have to hit with an ultrasonic frequency? I want to know about that BEFORE a brain slug takes out my away team."
That's when things got bad. "Sir, I don't know why you're calling us but if you keep trying to reach NASA, we'll send some FBI agents to 'explain' things."
"Listen slide-rule," I retorted, "You guys called me. I got the promotional materials right here, courtesy of Cubicle Computer 8115-S."
And that is how NASA ruined my credit rating.
THE END
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I think you stole the plot line.
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"It's a musuem," they say. "No, this Mercury capsule won't be used in any future missions," they say. "Put your pants back on," they say.
Honestly, you ejaculate on the control panel of one lousy space capsule and NASA throws a frackin' conniption fit. I had like five wetnaps and could have gotten most of it cleaned up.
Plus, it's not like it was the first time my fluids found their way onto NASA property. They didn't seem to mind when I crapped in the middle of the lobby of the Space Command Visitors' Center in Houston.
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It's not the fact that you pestered them about a tricorder that makes them never want to talk to you again. It's the fact that you apparently think this all happened in real life.
@OMG! StopIt!_GitEmSteveDave:
Philip J. Fry has proven sufficiently that anyone can experience Brain Slugs. Some people are biologically immune to them, but that doesn't mean the Brain Slugs won't try...
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I prefer Bosch, but I really preferred them back in the day when they hadn't knuckled under to the "weekend carpenter" crowd, and they still made cordless screw-guns with a more sensible pistol grip instead of those "only suitable for posing with it" T-grips that people who don't know how to use the things prefer.
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I have a pair of purple leather Converse All-Stars. Does that count?
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Dude...that may be true, but I'm _NOT_ posing naked for you in my purple Chucks. Not even if you paid me.
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Cool drill, though.
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Cinder blocks also continue to get stronger as they age, and boring a clean hole (without shattering the whole thing or snapping the bit) is something of a challenge.
When I worked for the maintenance department during summers at college, I got the privelege of being the first to use their brand-new Hilti masonry hammer-drill (looks not unlike the one above). I was using it on a building that was at least 30 years old, and it cut through the cinder blocks and cement like a hot knife through butter. For a couple holes, there's not any noticable discomfort, though I suspect that if you were using it all day long this version would be much preferred.