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Backyard Skywatchers Find Tool Bag Lost in Space
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| 25 Nov 2008
| Jeanna Bryner
Posted on 11/28/2008 8:15:24 AM PST by BGHater
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Plenty of chances to view the 100k Tool Bag.
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posted on
11/28/2008 8:15:24 AM PST
by
BGHater
To: BGHater
Interesting conversation around the turkey-dissecting table yesterday: if left alone, will this bag eventually collide with the space station on some future orbit?
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posted on
11/28/2008 8:19:19 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: BGHater
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posted on
11/28/2008 8:21:29 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(once you get to really know people, there are always better reasons than [race] for despising them.)
To: 1rudeboy
Why could they not retrieve it
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posted on
11/28/2008 8:21:31 AM PST
by
al baby
(Hi mom Honkeys for Mc Cain Palin)
To: BGHater
...lost her grip on the backpack-sized bag on Nov. 18 while cleaning up a mess from a leaking grease gun she was carrying to help mop up ....
O M G , how embarrassing...
Some things never change, at least it's only a grease gun, the last time seals failed we lost a Shuttle (Discovery, was it, so long ago, my memory's fadin').
Btw-when I worked as a rigger here on erf, we had to tether everything, why didn't have it rigged?
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posted on
11/28/2008 8:23:21 AM PST
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
To: 1rudeboy
Knowing Murphy, chances are that it can hit something. Probably take out a Sat. while I’m watching the SuperBowl.
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posted on
11/28/2008 8:23:23 AM PST
by
BGHater
(The GOP, the new DNC.)
To: BGHater
Once the tool bag floated away This statement puzzles me. What force would cause the tool bag to float away?
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posted on
11/28/2008 8:23:26 AM PST
by
MosesKnows
(Love many, Trust few, and always paddle your own canoe)
To: al baby
Why could they not retrieve itHow would you propose they do so?
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posted on
11/28/2008 8:24:36 AM PST
by
xjcsa
(And these three remain: change, hope and government. But the greatest of these is government.)
To: norraad
Sounds like a job for Bruce Willis.
Rocket Scientist neglect a common aspect of a job that a rigger would know.
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posted on
11/28/2008 8:24:47 AM PST
by
BGHater
(The GOP, the new DNC.)
To: MosesKnows
This statement puzzles me. What force would cause the tool bag to float away?Momentum; maybe a slight accidental push. Wouldn't take much.
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posted on
11/28/2008 8:25:44 AM PST
by
xjcsa
(And these three remain: change, hope and government. But the greatest of these is government.)
To: BGHater
I will sell the ISS a new tool bag with "3" grease guns, a scrapper, a large box of hefty trash bags And a bucket of "oxyclean" for the low price of 75K ☺
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posted on
11/28/2008 8:25:47 AM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: al baby
I bet they would have if they could. This object is going to be dangerous to re-supply craft.
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posted on
11/28/2008 8:27:53 AM PST
by
Tallguy
("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
To: BGHater
Uh, er, umm, duh, things cannot be dropped in space.
To: MosesKnows
inertia and the subtle pull of erf’s gravity
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posted on
11/28/2008 8:30:20 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(once you get to really know people, there are always better reasons than [race] for despising them.)
To: BGHater
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posted on
11/28/2008 8:34:55 AM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: NonValueAdded
The tool bag weighs about 30 pounds (14 kg)
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posted on
11/28/2008 8:35:53 AM PST
by
LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot
("If you don't have my army supplied, and keep it supplied, we'll eat your mules up, sir"-Gen.Sherman)
To: All
That tool bag is just one of thousands and thousands of objects orbiting the Earth. At least when things are at the same distance above Earth they are orbiting at the same velocity and in the same direction. Once orbit is acheived, the danger form these objects is not too high. That bag will eventually re-enter the atmosphere, but it will be up there for along time.
To: LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot
Right now that tool bag weighs zero; its mass is 30 lbm (lbm - pounds mass).
To: BGHater
Damn, and the bag matched her shoes too.
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posted on
11/28/2008 8:41:08 AM PST
by
Doctor Raoul
(It's no longer the Press Van, it's a "Tanker" Truck!)
To: LimaLimaMikeFoxtrot
No, I was saddened by the confusion of weight versus mass. I'll assume that 30 pound weight is at gn.
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posted on
11/28/2008 8:41:13 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(once you get to really know people, there are always better reasons than [race] for despising them.)
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