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    Pensioners Attacked by Space Junk and/or Aliens

    Space Station Crew Now Basically Just Playing a Real-Life Game of Asteroids

    Space Station Crew Climb Into Escape Module To Avoid Passing Space Debris

    Too Much Space Debris? Try a Weak Laser or a Strong Water Cannon

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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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    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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    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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    Image of Sora57 is rendering Sora57 is rendering
    03/23/09

    In reply to Space Station Crew Now Basically Just Playing a Real-Life Game of Asteroids
    All they have to do is add the Asteroids "Hyperspace" button.
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    03/23/09

    In reply to Space Station Crew Now Basically Just Playing a Real-Life Game of Asteroids
    yes...could you imagine a hunk of metal going crazy fast in zero gravity hurtling towards you? Its a pretty dangerous job, being an ISS astronaut. Just another way they can get hurt out there.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    03/23/09

    @gotcheeze5793: You know you would be like trying to swim if you saw it coming. Almost like I imagine people falling w/o a parachute flapping their arms.
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    Image of Weihovah Weihovah
    03/23/09

    In reply to Space Station Crew Now Basically Just Playing a Real-Life Game of Asteroids
    why don't they just have scotty divert aux power to the shields?
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    03/23/09

    @Weihovah: B/c he hasn't made it into space yet. The rockets he are on keep blowing up.
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    03/23/09

    In reply to Space Station Crew Now Basically Just Playing a Real-Life Game of Asteroids
    So wait, are you saying our only hope might be Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell, and/or Walter Day?
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    03/23/09

    In reply to Space Station Crew Now Basically Just Playing a Real-Life Game of Asteroids
    We really need to find a way to get a garbage truck out there before the shit really hits the fan (space station).
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    03/23/09

    @Software_Goddess: I chose the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
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    03/12/09

    In reply to Space Station Crew Climb Into Escape Module To Avoid Passing Space Debris
    Have we learned nothing from Justice League Unlimited?
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    03/12/09

    In reply to Space Station Crew Climb Into Escape Module To Avoid Passing Space Debris
    I read the other day an article about ideas being passed around on ways to clean up junk in orbit. A couple of ideas were discussed: lasers fired into space to change the trajectory of debris so that their orbit would collapse into the earths atmosphere and sending up rockets with water cannons that would shoot the debris out of orbit.


    So here's my idea, which seems easier and more cost effective but I'm not a scientist so I welcome any critiques. I think building a projectile system on the moon would be best. Since, in space, mass is not important to force as it would be in a gravitational pull, a turret-like projectile system on the moon could fire very small projectiles at space junk, knocking the junk back towards Earth to burn up on reentry. The projectiles could be maybe the size of marbles and made of compacted moon dust or rock (for dust, would need to be combined with some binding agent to keep it from falling apart). Make it solar powered (assuming such a device would be stationary, large reserve batteries could be provided for those times the moon is behind Earth) and add a small rover for harvesting the material to make the projectiles with and the entire machine would be self-contained and could be remotely controlled. This would readily take care of smaller debris but could potentially take care of larger debris as well, so long as the trajectory is carefully calculated to minimize potential landfall damage upon re-entry.

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    03/12/09

    @spittingangels: Did it look anything like this?: [i.gizmodo.com]
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    03/12/09

    @spittingangels: It's an interesting concept. A laser would be more practical since you would only need to harvest energy and not matter. To avoid blinding any people, the laser would only fire at the debris as it rounded the horizon so a miss would just shoot past the earth. Of course, the cost savings of implementing this on the moon rather than the earth would probably be more than offset by the cost of getting all this to the moon in the first place.
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    Image of MacJedi MacJedi
    03/12/09

    In reply to Space Station Crew Climb Into Escape Module To Avoid Passing Space Debris
    Isn't this why deflector shields were invented on Star Trek?


    SO COME ON GENIUSES!!! LET'S GET TO INVENTIN!

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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    03/12/09

    @MacJedi: They'll have to invent a deflector first.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/12/09

    In reply to Space Station Crew Climb Into Escape Module To Avoid Passing Space Debris
    So they climbed into a Russian space capsule to protect themselves from space debris? Did they fly away to some place safe or does the Soyuz TMA-13 have some kind of Soviet era armor?
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    Image of SrsRevo17 SrsRevo17
    03/12/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: The cross section of the Soyuz is a whole lot smaller than the ISS as a whole, so the chance that the debris will hit the Soyuz is small compared to the ISS. If debris hits the ISS, then they can jettison immediately.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    03/12/09

    @SrsRevo17: Hmm. It makes sense now that you put it that way. I just hope that they have some lounge seating and music if this is going to be a frequent occurrence.
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    03/12/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: They have a issPod.
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    03/12/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: It's an "escape module"? Just in case they have to escape?


    Seriously, though. The Soyuz capsules are used to carry astro/cosmonauts and supplies to the ISS and back. TMA-13 denotes a specific mission. When the current batch of spacemen are done working, another Soyuz capsule will arrive and the this one will return.

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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    03/12/09

    In reply to Too Much Space Debris? Try a Weak Laser or a Strong Water Cannon
    They just need to re-christen one of the remaining Space Shuttles and call it Titanic...


    That's guaranteed to create the disaster their hoping to avoid, thus securing the needed funding for a clean up project.


    "I'm king of the Universe!"

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