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mrplow
26-07-2005, 16:28
Watch the liftoff over at the bbc website :cool:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4716463.stm (link top right)
Idiophreak
26-07-2005, 18:12
vwoosh
mrplow
26-07-2005, 21:19
vwoosh

indeed
Gecko
26-07-2005, 23:53
Watched it live on shitty fox, who ****ed up and lost the feed jsut as it was taking off.

Thats looks cool tho :cool:
donkeyhumper
27-07-2005, 01:01
bits fell off - nasa are investigating if it's gonna be a problem! :(
lonedawg
27-07-2005, 11:51
bits fell off - nasa are investigating if it's gonna be a problem! :(

They can't test for falling bits before it takes off..? :wall:
Idiophreak
27-07-2005, 12:25
Things break.
mrplow
27-07-2005, 12:36
Bits always fall off, it's more a question of what was it.

There's ice and crap flying everywhere when they take off, hopefully it's just normal debris... :frown:
Idiophreak
27-07-2005, 16:04
Or a burrito carelessly flung from the window.
donkeyhumper
27-07-2005, 18:17
:lol:

don't be silly - nobody would ever discard a burrito! you've gotta eat them all!
dash
27-07-2005, 19:39
Surely things not falling off would be a lot more surprising? Like timmeh says *fingercrossed* its just normal debris.
lonedawg
27-07-2005, 22:42
Ah. I invisioned things falling off when it just starts to take off.. which would've been a bit more silly :) Debris I understand..

P.S. Weird, I just had two burritos.. they were mighty tasty
donkeyhumper
28-07-2005, 05:28
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4723109.stm

Nasa has said it is grounding the space shuttle fleet as engineers investigate debris which fell from Discovery's external fuel tank during launch.

A spokesman for the US space agency said big chunks of foam broke off the tank after Tuesday's lift-off, but are not thought to have damaged the craft.

eerily similar to Columbia :(

they need to scrap them all and build super new, modern shuttles - not that they'll get the funding mind you!
mrplow
28-07-2005, 09:37
How could the same thing happen again, when it /never/ used to happen.

I guess the shuttles really are at the end of their lives. I just pray the crew can repair it in space :(


Reading all those articles they seem to be playing it down - they're serious about it but it sounds like it's not a massive problem just that they're very cautious.
Hope so.


Watch the video "astonauts check for shuttle damage" and it seems the damage is within the 'normal' limits i.e. isn't life threatening... they think.
lonedawg
28-07-2005, 11:28
http://salmonupload.info/i/_41350781_men203ap.jpg
"This looks like a penis!"
mrplow
03-08-2005, 19:09
Hopefully this guy has mad skills

http://salmonupload.info/i/ss5.jpg
http://salmonupload.info/i/ss6.jpg

Looks like he's a pro gamer to me :cool:
Idiophreak
03-08-2005, 22:04
http://salmonupload.info/i/_41350781_men203ap.jpg
"This looks like a penis!"
lmfao tbh
mrplow
09-08-2005, 12:18
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4134986.stm

Huzzah!
lonedawg
09-08-2005, 13:00
yay :)
Idiophreak
09-08-2005, 15:45
they actually land them?

I thought they just plopped into the sea and swam out!

How do they slow them down?
9point9
09-08-2005, 17:18
I watched it at work, pretty amazing incoming pictures. The after landing bit was a bit crap. Just a few headlights in the dark for a while.

How do they slow them down?

By making a couple of s-bends, then bringing the nose up to scrub off lots of speed. After hitting the runway, parachutes are deployed.