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shit, dropped the bolt
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That’s not a problem
Understanding Zero-G Fail
Scientific understanding win!
(1) It’s a joke, people!
(2) Depending on the velocity at which his had was moving “dropping” it could be a problem, Houston.
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!!
he is in orbit u twat, so he is still very much effected by gravity
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.
Stop turning me on.
I just love to see a romance bloom on the interwebs.
Solution: magentized screwdrivers? You could grab it back on the end of the screwdriver if you ‘dropped’ it.
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.
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.
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!
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)
Something as small as a bolt would be destroyed during re-entry…
You make a good point. But it could be a special NASA bolt that would survive. There were bolts that survived the Columbia crash.
They went down with the rest of the ship though, probably located somewhere inside
LOL. ’special NASA bolt’ That’s funny to me for some reason.
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.
Good one. It got a giggle-snort out of me.
”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…
Not like it should take a bunch of rocket scientists to figure out a pencil would work in space,… Oh never mind.
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
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.
I Did LOL, good one.