"WTF" stories

[Mikey]

Actually, I believe it cost her a place on the next mission.

[Mark]

Oops

[kostmayer]

Via Universe Today :-

Satellite Tracker Captures Lost Toolbag on Video

Check out the video of it shooting by.

It was also posted on ABC's site, after which someone left the quite sensible comment "We can find a bag floating in space but we can't find Osama bin Laden?"

[Tsukiyumi]

Well, if he goes shooting by in space at supersonic speeds, I'm sure we'll spot him then.

[Lt. Staplic]

If I remember the story (I saw it on the news the other day) It was half a million dollars for that particular tool kit.

Yay, America! Flusing hundreds of millions of dollars down the toilet each year. Then we wonder why were in an economic crisis!

[Mikey]

There's a Snap-On tool truck that stops by the shop at my delaership every Friday. He could sell NASA a grease gun for about $300, and even give them a payment plan.

[Lt. Staplic]

ya but all the gear has to be adapted work in 0 gravity, in a vacume at rather cold temperatures!

[thelordharry]

If I remember the story (I saw it on the news the other day) It was half a million dollars for that particular tool kit.

Yay, America! Flusing hundreds of millions of dollars down the toilet each year. Then we wonder why were in an economic crisis!

Kind of reminds me of this urban legend:

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300°C.

The Russians used a pencil.

[Lt. Staplic]

[Sionnach Glic]

Is it just me, or is the US getting a bit casual about throwing out expensive pieces of equipment to burn up in orbit? IIRC, there was something about a fridge that they threw out of the ISS because it smelled bad earlier this year.

[Lt. Staplic]

Hay, It's not just us...the ISS is being built by the Italians, Russians, French, Indian, and quite a few others, so they threw it out too.

[thelordharry]

They've just doomed mankind. Those tools will return in a few hundred years as a sentient robot bent on exacting revenge now.

Hey! Maybe this bag of tools is what ST:MP is based on! In a few hundred years, the bag of tools returns as V'Ger and eats up old Decker and Baldy

[stitch626]

Kind of reminds me of this urban legend:

When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ballpoint pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300°C.

The Russians used a pencil.

Worst part about that one is its true.

[Teaos]

Its only half true.

While its true they did invent that pen and the Russians in the start did just use pencils they leave out an important fact.

Pencil leeds break. it happened several times where the end of the pencil broke off and floated into sensitive machinery.

The development of the pen was both worth while and needed and now the russians use it to.

[stitch626]

Oh yeah, forgot they break. Mine never do.