Knife on International Space Station

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Don M

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While in DC this week (see other thread), I saw the Imax film at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum about the space station. It was a great flick, I highly recommend it.

In one of the scenes on the space station, one of the crew (I believe it was a Russian) was doing a repair on something when he pulled out a decent size folder and opened it one-handed with a flick of his wrist. It happened fast, so I did not quite see what knife it was. It looked like some sort of plastic handle (G-10?) and it appeared to have a Tanto point. Has anyone else seen the movie who can identify it? I wonder how the cosmonaut got it past security. Ironic that he could have one on the space station, but you can't have even a small pocket knife to watch a movie about the space station.
 
There are no knife laws in space, you just got to get it there without anyone seeing it :)

It would be interesting to know what he had and any of the others.

pahl
 
Originally posted by Don M
Ironic that he could have one on the space station, but you can't have even a small pocket knife to watch a movie about the space station.
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I going to Washington next week and was thinking about going to Air and Space. Have they stopped allowing all knives in the museum?
 
Great timing, Gadgetman7. I just went there a few weeks ago, with a little 3" (D.C. legal) SOG folder.

To my dismay, when I got there, I saw metal detectors at the front door. When I emptied my pockets, I just nonchalantly threw my folder in the basket, along with everything else. It was scanned, but I don't think anyone noticed the little blade in there. Everyone was busy asking me how long it took to grow my mohawk :)

I've also done this at a club. Slipped that same DC-legal folder into my boot (under my foot). The pat-down doesn't get it, and the hand-held metal detector beeped, but nobody noticed. Usually security is too busy asking about the mohawk to notice anything. I just put on a friendly smile, it gets you in anywhere without any trouble.

The Smithsonian Natural History Museum doesn't have metal detectors. They do have a security force there, I guess for selective pat-downs or metal detector scanning if you look fishy.

It's so sad how these restrictive rules/laws serve only to restrict the rights of citizens to defend themselves and carry tools. No determined terrorist is going to stop at the sight of a metal detector...
 
Originally posted by pahl
There are no knife laws in space,
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Yeah, wonder how long that'll last. Prob. until the first blissninny arrives there.
 
If my memory serves me will, it is an Emerson Specwar Tanto, plain edge, Black, with a special sort of gut hook ground onto the front edge especially for opening their vacuum sealed goodies.

A hell of a nice knife if you ask me. Heck, if it is good enough for those who literally have the budget to choose ANYTHING they want, well, I think that tells you something.
 
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