Murphy's Law. Canadians drop bolt.

Kismet

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronauts working to bring to life a new 17 1/2-ton solar panel addition to the international space station lost another screw to the void Wednesday but made it through a successful if arduous spacewalk.

In a 7-hour, 11-minute spacewalk — nearly 45 minutes longer than planned — Dan Burbank and Steve MacLean of the Canadian Space Agency connected the solar arrays and prepared the structure's joint for an inaugural rotation later in the day.

Once the solar arrays are operating, the rotating joint will move with the sun to maximize the amount of power generated. They eventually will supply a quarter of the space lab's power when it is completed by 2010.

(It's under the work-bench in the far corner against the wall with two Pepsi caps, a bunch of steel shavings, and a spider, guys.)
 
Them's my boys.:D

Can you imagine? At least it seems like they took along some spares. God willing, the bolt didn't make a little divot in the heat shield before careening off to Jupiter.
 
The materials remain in orbit and cause havoc.
There's a good side though; we've left so much junk up there that should there be an 'alien invasion'; their invasion fleet might one day have to contend with a safety sheild of metal all around the earth.



munk
 
How about sending up a rocket with a payload of HI khuks which, when released into orbit, would create such a shield to defend the world against invading space-zombies?

Eric
 
The problem with space debris is our getting out.
I don't remember what the ideas are about doing something about it. I wish Firkin were around. He'd know at least a couple.



munk
 
The problem was caused by Canadian metric nuts trying to attach themselves to American studs . That would cause problems anywhere .
 
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munk said:
The problem with space debris is our getting out.
I don't remember what the ideas are about doing something about it. I wish Firkin were around. He'd know at least a couple.



munk
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I miss firkin too. I don't think we should worry too much about space debris though; we'll just mix it in when we grind up all the planets to make a Dyson sphere around the sun.
 
lost another screw to the void
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This is perhaps the funniest phrase I've ever read...ROTFLMAO!

I've had days like that myself. I may just have to say "well, lost another screw to the void!!" when things get crazy from now on.
 
Eric006 said:
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What he said. :p

Although I do have to day, in defense of the Canadians, at least they didn't crash a multiple hundred million dollar spacecraft because they couldn't tell the difference between feet and meters.:eek:
 
Oh, let's be kind; what about our bent mirror on the Hubble spacecraft? That's the one that really pissed me off. Yeah, crashing the mars probe was bad.


But....we who pioneer will make mistakes. If Canada even has a hundred million dollar spacecraft, it was probably built here.


munk
 
The Canadians are getting mentioned a lot in our threads lately. "Our" includes our own Canadian forumites, so that might be the reason, but it seems strange to read any form of "Canada' so often here.


munk
 
Monk, the arm on your shuttle was built by the county who could build it best. That is why it is called the Canadarm! :)

Good to have Canucks around!

O Canada! Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide, O Canada,
We stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee!
 
johngalt said:
He obviously did'nt have his Tim Hortons prior to going out of the shuttle..
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Personally I think you need a Timmy Ho,s drip machine to get the full benefit from their coffee . I can see them sneaking the coffee on board but not the machine .

I can just hear them now . : Sure........ its an upgrade for the Canadarm . An enviromentary friendly steam powered engine . The only by-product is a thin black sludge that is so bio-degradeable we can drink it .
 
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