This is just sheer idiocy! The Russians are turning the space program into a circus show.
At least they could have used a tethered ball or a paper ball...
Boy, will it be funny if he hooks it into the solar panels...
1 posted on
02/28/2006 11:48:57 AM PST by
mwilli20
To: mwilli20
he might get a Hole in one.........
2 posted on
02/28/2006 11:49:47 AM PST by
Red Badger
(And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him...)
To: mwilli20
I wonder... A golf ball shouldn't be able to "hook" in any direction in space. It should continue to head in a straight line.... gravity permitting.
3 posted on
02/28/2006 11:52:32 AM PST by
coconutt2000
(NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
To: mwilli20
He might pull it into the panels, but it takes the friction of air to hook it...
4 posted on
02/28/2006 11:53:10 AM PST by
trebb
("I am the way... no one comes to the Father, but by me..." - Jesus in John 14:6 (RSV))
To: mwilli20
I wonder if he asked Alan Shepard which club to hit.
6 posted on
02/28/2006 11:55:55 AM PST by
gate2wire
To: mwilli20
Incidently, most of the funding for Clinton's useless ISS is, of course, coming from the United States. Meanwhile, the Chinese are headed to the moon.
8 posted on
02/28/2006 11:58:53 AM PST by
presidio9
("Bird Flu" is the new Y2K Virus -Only without the inconvenient deadline.)
To: mwilli20
Some of us have known for a long time that the ISS is nothing more than an extremely expensive make-work project.
9 posted on
02/28/2006 11:59:56 AM PST by
Moonman62
(Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
To: mwilli20
Idiocy indeed. He should be man enough to hit a driver rather than lay it up with a short iron.
15 posted on
02/28/2006 12:05:30 PM PST by
skikvt
(7th Infantry Division, Buffaloes)
To: KevinDavis
PAR! In b4 the ping! Pingin the pinger lol!!
17 posted on
02/28/2006 12:08:27 PM PST by
meanie monster
(http://guptonator.myvideochat.net)
To: mwilli20
I can imagine the heckling if he shoots towards the planet and misses!
18 posted on
02/28/2006 12:09:19 PM PST by
CodeToad
To: mwilli20
P.S. Does the man need a caddy?
19 posted on
02/28/2006 12:10:02 PM PST by
CodeToad
To: mwilli20
This picture shows Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard swinging his makeshift golf club for the third time. The golf ball is actually visible in flight, as the white dot in the upper right corner of the picture. Behind Shepard, you can see astronaut Ed Mitchell, who later threw an improvised javelin. (We took this still image from a video clip of the Apollo 14 mission, which you can see in its entirety here: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a14/video14.html.)
23 posted on
02/28/2006 12:35:05 PM PST by
Grim
To: mwilli20
It may go down as the longest tee shot in history.
24 posted on
02/28/2006 12:38:01 PM PST by
BigSkyFreeper
(Proud to be a cotton-pickin' Republican on the GOP Plantation)
To: mwilli20
To: mwilli20
Has it occurred to anyone that the station and golf ball would then be in intersecting orbits. He may miss the station on the first shot, but it will cross the station's path again every 45 minutes( or thereabouts, assuming a 90 minute orbit at that altitude) for another try. And what about all the other satellites in or near that orbital band???
28 posted on
02/28/2006 12:45:03 PM PST by
Hiryusan
To: mwilli20
"...taking great care not to hook the ball into the outpost. Danger Will Robinson.
I know every time I try real hard not to hook ... I hook.
31 posted on
02/28/2006 1:33:43 PM PST by
Ditto
To: mwilli20
I'll be the Russians are doing it with the blessing of NASA. I don't care to have what money they take from me in taxes to have this kind of thing supported.
32 posted on
02/28/2006 1:34:56 PM PST by
Gaffer
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