Getting the tow truck up there is the hard part.

**floats mystically past**

"Helmsman, bring the lateral thrusters online..."

MrEricSir: Getting the tow truck up there is the hard part.

While this maneuver was performed using the station's own thrusters, bigger planned moves really are done with what is effectively a tow truck - previously the shuttle, but now the European ATV will be capable of the biggest orbiatchanges and re-boosts.

/Ok, more of a push than a tow - but close enough.

pffft,

I can't even get the pod-bay doors open before I get the "I'm afraid I can't do that..."

How can you tell which is which?

Subby obviously doesn't know my wife...

Quantum Apostrophe: How can you tell which is which?

One weighs several tonnes and has had dozens of people from many nations perform a variety of activities both inside and around them.

And the other one's in orbit.

... and Stubby's Mom.

"Space station to move to avoid oncoming junk" much unlike subby's mom wife

FTFY

Gonad the Ballbarian: pffft,

I can't even get the pod-bay doors open before I get the "I'm afraid I can't do that..."

^ This led to my divorce, for what it's worth.

Dig your login, by the by.

Falling Down on New Jersey

_{Lyrics Copyright ©1990 Mitchell Burnside Clapp - All Rights Reserved
Music: "Rolling Down on Old Maui" (Traditional)
Used by permission}

It's a damn tough life far from home and wife
that we astronauts undergo
And we don't much care when the mission's done
how far the ship did go
But you'll be sad to learn our deorbit burn
won't be made for our tanks are empty
And the fuel line's torn so you'd better warn
all the folks in New Jersey

Chorus:

Falling down on New Jersey, me boys
Falling down on New Jersey
We thought it wise we apologize
to the folks in New Jersey

Well it's widely known that a ship alone
would be burned up and destroyed
But the ship and crew brought with us too
an eleven mile asteroid
So when you've awoken all the folks in Hoboken
and the profs at Princeton too
We'll divulge the fact that the rock's impact
will be at seven thirty two

Chorus

Well now why the shock? Hell it's just a rock
Are we just alarmist fools?
But it has you see potential energy
of roughly ten to the nineteenth joules
With the rock's advance there is Buckley's chance
that the Garden State'll be spared
And soon we'll show if you didn't know
that E is mc squared

Chorus

We will strike a spark that'll toast Newark
and will flatten Perth Amboy
It won't be pretty in Atlantic City
You should shade your eyes in Troy
Even so and yet we have one regret
that we haven't the delta V
To push it forth just a few miles north
to land smack on N Y C

Chorus

Falling down on New Jersey me boys
falling down on New Jersey
We apologize -- gee we're sorry guys!
What a drag for New Jersey

"Space station to move to avoid oncoming junk"



I didn't know the Chinese space program was so far along.

Huh? I'm not married

shiftyphil: ...orbiatchanges...

HA.

FunkOut: I imagined space junk to have more tentacles.

FunkOut: I imagined space junk to have more tentacles.

Or



We have to start picking up our trash or people will be killed.

Baron Harkonnen: fluffy2097, you do realize THAT'S ANIME and real life does not work that way, correct?

THE HELL YOU SAY!

shiftyphil: Quantum Apostrophe: How can you tell which is which?

One weighs several tonnes and has had dozens of people from many nations perform a variety of activities both inside and around them.

And the other one's in orbit.

I "funnied" you. And I feel dirty for using those new fangled buttons. I hope you're happy.

Yeah, but can I drop her from a height of 220 miles when she's old and broken?

"Negative, just impacted on the surface"


"Yeeeeaaaaaaarrrrrrghhhhhhh!"

Baron Harkonnen: fluffy2097, you do realize THAT'S ANIME and real life does not work that way, correct?

Planetes went to great length to accurately simulate microgravity. It's politcal message and flavor of the week problems WERE dissimilar to real life.

However, just what the fark you think will happen if a 1 ounce screw hits a window at 6 kilometers per second?

Death and destruction. That's what. They got that part right.


Look at this image loser. LOOK AT IT.

You know what those red dots are? TRASH. Trash down to a few centimeters wide. All traveling miles per second All fatal to a space craft, and that's ONLY the stuff that is big enough we can track. Smaller things can pose a hazard too. Only The green dots are actual satellites.

And If the Kessler syndrome ever starts, goodby to any satellite based anything.

NASA officials said debris from an old U.S. private communication satellite would have come within three miles of the orbiting outpost on Friday had the station not changed its orbit.

Space junk moves so fast that it can puncture the station so engineers try to give debris a wide berth whenever something comes close.

Astronauts fired the station's engines for 54 seconds Friday to move the outpost about 1,000 feet higher. NASA said it needed to boost the station's orbit anyway to get ready for a cargo delivery.

Well good jorb there. Is plan B to spacewalk a cosmonaut out there with a bottle of vodka and a catcher's mitt?

LoneVVolf 2012-01-13 10:52:00 PM


Well good jorb there. Is plan B to spacewalk a cosmonaut out there with a bottle of vodka and a catcher's mitt?


no kossu in spaaaaaaaaaaace

_{/also worried about Kessler syndrome}