Comments on: shit

By: Paws4thot, the PK Booty Caller

Paws4thot, the PK Booty Caller — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:50:47 +0000

Huge series of fails; the problem isn’t so much the dropped bolt itself as “how the FAQ do we get a spare one?”

By: ...

... — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:33:16 +0000

yes because the velocity of the bolt could rip an astronaut to shreads.

By: alecmcc

alecmcc — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:20:17 +0000

he is in orbit u twat, so he is still very much effected by gravity

By: Son-Of-A-NASA-Engineer

Son-Of-A-NASA-Engineer — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:43:01 +0000

Dropping the thing isn’t the problem, as others have said. In zero-g the real issue is “how do you undo a screw?” If you use a normal screwdriver, you will spin around it unless there is somewhere to anchor yourself. This may well not be the case inside Hubble.

That is, if the repair mission now goes ahead.

By: chenevey

chenevey — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:34:36 +0000

I Did LOL, good one.

By: Dexaan

Dexaan — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:22:36 +0000

Solution: magentized screwdrivers? You could grab it back on the end of the screwdriver if you ‘dropped’ it.

By: EggFooYung

EggFooYung — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:52:30 +0000

A “special NASA bolt” is exactly like a regular bolt except that someone paid 5 $500 for it instead of 50 cents at the hardware shop.

By: Dsilver

Dsilver — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:56:00 +0000

Wrong. The space pen DID cost 2 billion to develop, however; it was paid for using non-governmental funds as a private venture. Don’t get me wrong, NASA cashed in on the fact that someone else was willing to take the risk and do the development for them (imagine floating pieces of broken pencil…) but they did not spend taxpayer funds to cover it.

By: Kinson

Kinson — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:33:35 +0000

Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

By: EF-AH-GEE

EF-AH-GEE — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:25:19 +0000

Not like it should take a bunch of rocket scientists to figure out a pencil would work in space,… Oh never mind.

By: ice_army

ice_army — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:56:18 +0000

”Special NASA bolt”… good one! Did you guys here about the special pen NASA had to develop? It apperas your standard ball point pen doesn’t work in zero-g…. So NASA spent 2 billion to develop a pen that would… While the russians solves the same problem with a 2-cent pencil…

By: flingdecow

flingdecow — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:15:22 +0000

LOL. ‘special NASA bolt’ That’s funny to me for some reason.

By: blushing with joy

blushing with joy — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:11:24 +0000

I just love to see a romance bloom on the interwebs.

By: Martha

Martha — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:25:57 +0000

Ok, have Googled “Swedish flag” and remember what it looks like. But: YOU could tell that that image (low on his backpack, if that’s its only place) is a Swedish flag? Either (1) you have GREAT vision; (2) your screen has terrific resolution; and/or (3) You follow NASA news VERY closely!

By: brmbug

brmbug — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:57:06 +0000

Good one. It got a giggle-snort out of me.

By: time to bolt

time to bolt — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:59:39 +0000

They went down with the rest of the ship though, probably located somewhere inside

By: SCIENCE!!!

SCIENCE!!! — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:57:35 +0000

If it was dropped like we drop things on Earth it wouldn’t do much but if he was moving it and it slipped out of his hand it would keep moving in that direction.

Understanding what was meant by “dropped” fail!!

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:22:58 +0000

You make a good point. But it could be a special NASA bolt that would survive. There were bolts that survived the Columbia crash.

By: ice_army

ice_army — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:47:50 +0000

Something as small as a bolt would be destroyed during re-entry…

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:21:00 +0000

That is pretty Sweed. sorry.

Man, if he dropped it with any velocity, I can imagine someone is going to have a rough day. (Assuming it does not hit the water or any number of deserts)

By: DRH

DRH — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:09:43 +0000

(1) It’s a joke, people!

(2) Depending on the velocity at which his had was moving “dropping” it could be a problem, Houston.

By: Yuki

Yuki — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:45:48 +0000

Since this guy has a Swedish flag on his suit it can only be Christer Fuglesang during his mission last December. The first Swede in space.

By: flingdecow

flingdecow — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:28:37 +0000

Stop turning me on.

By: Vernon Balbert

Vernon Balbert — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:51:14 +0000

This is a real concern for the next Hubble servicing mission. In order to replace components, these guys have to open stuff that wasn’t meant to be opened in space. That means regular stuff like phillips screws and the like. Easy with your bare hands, but spacesuit gloves are not quite so nice in this regard.

If you can provide the source of the picture, then identification is possible.

By: ice_army

ice_army — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:30:41 +0000

Scientific understanding win!

By: Bib1887

Bib1887 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:29:48 +0000

Understanding Zero-G Fail

By: LiviuX

LiviuX — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:09:14 +0000

That’s not a problem