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    NASA Preps For The Worst With Dramatic Hollywood-Style Shuttle Rescue Mission

    Tourists Rescued from Swiss Mountains Thanks to Magic iPod
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    05/11/09

    In reply to NASA Preps For The Worst With Dramatic Hollywood-Style Shuttle Rescue Mission
    I don't like you because you're dangerous.


    That's right! Ice... man. I am dangerous.

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    Image of aerospaceman aerospaceman
    05/11/09

    In reply to NASA Preps For The Worst With Dramatic Hollywood-Style Shuttle Rescue Mission
    I think, and this is a purely intellectual exercise since the Shuttle will be soon gone, that it would be cheaper to send a deorbiting module on an expendable rocket. The DM will dock with the stricken shuttle and slow it down to a velocity where the re-entry becomes a gentle ride with no extra heating, also providing control during the descent in case the Shuttle's aerodynamic control surfaces are compromised. Then at a safe altitude, the crew can simply bail out:


    [www.patrick.af.mil]

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
    05/11/09

    @aerospaceman: Uh, this is if the heat shield is damaged. I doubt after what happened to Columbia, people will want to chance riding down w/damage.
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    Image of No_7 No_7
    05/11/09

    In reply to NASA Preps For The Worst With Dramatic Hollywood-Style Shuttle Rescue Mission
    So is that like a dutch rudder?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
    05/11/09

    @No_7: Yeah, except a lot more expensive.
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    Image of ghmlco ghmlco
    05/10/09

    In reply to NASA Preps For The Worst With Dramatic Hollywood-Style Shuttle Rescue Mission
    Why not at least park it next to the space station? Seems like there'd be enough pieces and parts they could use over time, like detaching the shuttle arm and then sending up a mount so it could be used on the station, ship up an umbilical and mount so it could be used as extra storage space, and so on.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
    05/11/09

    @ghmlco: Doesn't the ISS already have a wicked cooler Canada Arm?
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    Image of Margatron Margatron
    07/14/09

    @TheStateOnDVD2Day_GitEmSteveDa...: Yes it does. You're welcome, rest of world.

    -Canada
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    Image of daqman daqman
    05/10/09

    In reply to NASA Preps For The Worst With Dramatic Hollywood-Style Shuttle Rescue Mission
    Why ditch the dodgy shuttle? They could try to land it via remote control. If it breaks up WTF but if they land it you've still got a shuttle.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
    05/11/09

    @daqman: You realize what it's like when you lose all hydraulics and computer back ups? It's like a flying brick.
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    Image of lltaeho lltaeho
    05/11/09

    @HappyMothersDay_GitEmSteveDave: ditch the hydraulics and computer back ups. trust yourself. use the force.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
    05/11/09

    @lltaeho: I trust Tank more. In a pinch, Clint Eastwood.
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    Image of Gareth Eynon Gareth Eynon
    05/10/09

    In reply to NASA Preps For The Worst With Dramatic Hollywood-Style Shuttle Rescue Mission
    Couldn't they just "park it" in orbit and wait until another mission is launched (for another reason) with a repair in-hand.


    Seems like a waste of $Bn's if all your going to do is remote crash-land it in the Pacific.

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    Image of Sockatume Sockatume
    05/10/09

    @Gareth Eynon: The shuttles are to be discontinued anyway. The last mission is next year. So there's no point in doing an unscheduled, unfunded mission to recover a shuttle that'll never be used again.
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    Image of Con Seannery Con Seannery
    05/10/09

    @Sockatume: Not to mention they don't even have enough missions on the table to do that...of course, that might be what you said anyways.
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    Image of Gareth Eynon Gareth Eynon
    05/10/09

    @Con Seannery '09: Illegal in 1 Giz: There's got to be a better use than crashing it back to earth though!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga GitEmSteveDave_IsNotLarryGaga
    05/11/09

    @Gareth Eynon: I hear they are going to float a target in the Pacific, and if the shuttle hits, everyone in America gets a free taco/order of KFC.


    @jakebathman: I think this is all based on the Shuttle being empty after everyone is rescued.

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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    12/29/08

    In reply to Tourists Rescued from Swiss Mountains Thanks to Magic iPod
    i would have ripped the battery out of the ipod and hooked it to the phone - i bet the voltages weren't off by enough to run afoul of whatever rectifiers are on the phones PCB.
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    Image of Stuart Moore Stuart Moore
    12/27/08

    In reply to Tourists Rescued from Swiss Mountains Thanks to Magic iPod
    The article doesn't mention iPod, only "an MP3 player."


    Even though I love my iPods, I don't like this kind of blogging. This is the kind of thing that creates backlash against Apple. It's good... but don't push it.

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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    12/28/08

    @Stuart Moore:


    Yeah, that pisses me off that Dan says it was an iPod, where if he had read the Reuters article, he would've noticed that the brand of the mp3 player was not mentioned. Gizmodo is the only site that's reporting it was an iPod.

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    Image of CCNA1AB CCNA1AB
    12/27/08

    In reply to Tourists Rescued from Swiss Mountains Thanks to Magic iPod
    There is actually a app that has a alpine distress signal in it. I wonder if they had it installed? The media needs give better details to us nerds.
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    Image of jcrockerman jcrockerman
    12/27/08

    @CCNA1AB: geeks! not nerds! nerds don't get laid...geeks do.
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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/28/08

    @jcrockerman: No no, it's dorks that don't get laid.


    Except by whale cows.

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