exchange whole crew
Posted on 09/04/2018 4:02:13 PM PDT by grundle
Late last week, the astronauts aboard the International Space Station woke up to some distressing news: There was a leak somewhere on the station, and air was escaping into space. After an extensive search, the leak was finally found and plugged with tape and gauze, and the air pressure inside the station has been stabilized.
But now that the crisis has passed, there’s a new concern for the astronauts and the space agencies that manage the station. How exactly did that hole get there in the first place? At first, the theory was that a stray micrometeorite collided with the station and punctured a hole in the wall, but examination of the hole itself suggests that it was made by human hands, perhaps deliberately.
Looking at a photo of the hole, it looks less like a puncture caused by a small meteorite and more like a hole that was purposefully drilled. That's not just a layman's observation either. Dmitry Rogozin, the Director General of Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, suspects that the drilling was done with the intention of causing a leak. “There were several attempts at drilling,” he said in televised comments, by a “wavering hand.”
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Sounds like a job for Herule Poirot.
Unless one wants to kill well they sleep. Maybe the “driller” (if that’s the case) was hoping for it to turn into an explosive type decompression.
A fire would be an All Hands situation.
I’d pick JB-Weld Quickset over anything else I’ve heard suggested, except maybe the tap/bolt idea but I would still add the JB-Weld Quickset for a thread sealer.
I’ve NEVER had JB-Weld fail. And over the decades I’ve used several pounds of it. On probably 1000+ things.
Plus it’s made in Sulphur Springs,Texas.
There's always a first time for failure that you haven't seen. Particularly in space with extreme heat and cold, and UV radiation. Take a JB-Weld fix and leave it outside in the sunlight. It will breakdown in time due to UV light. Installing a rivet, or bolt is a metal on metal connection that is much, much stronger than a chemical patch.
exchange whole crew
Rubber cement and an inner tube patch.
I’m just using my phone to view and it is quite clear for some reason. Very distinct spaces between letters and it’s even more clear that there is no drill drifting sqiggles between each letter. And that inward volcano effect around the hole is unmistakable, too.
Maybe different browsers load more pixels than others?
Well lets think this thru ..... I hope they have a small machine / fabrication shop up there to maintain the ISS. Didn’t they just deliver a 3D Direct Metal Laser Sintering Printer to test ?? Print the part, refine and finish with a 9 axis mini CNC ??
Would also think they have a SET SIZE of fasteners ...... sort of like build the ISS from half inch fasteners and bring a half inch set of tools versus a billion dollar set of “snap on tools” ...... the 2mm evidence probably got pushed out the hole if the suspect was an astronaut type thinker stinker ......
Maybe. I’m looking forward to the final report.
I didn’t even think about having Space Tool Room onboard.
As usual You’re way on top of the situation.
We need to send Columbo up to Orbit to search the debris field.
.........:o)
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