If a gentle tug doesn't work, he'll pull a little harder with forceps. And if he remains unsuccessful, Robinson will resort to a hacksaw put together in orbit with a deliberately bent blade, plastic ties, Velcro and the handyman's favourite all-purpose fix-it: duct tape.

. . . . msn ch#9 report tonite.

 

Can you believe this. A billion dollar project, and a multi-million dollar space craft and it doesn't even have a decent tool kit on board.

 

They spend all this money training astronauts, when any RollaClub member worth his salt could have fixed the bloody thing, with what we carry around in the corner of our boots every day. And we would probably fix it gratis just for the opportunity to "drift" in space.

 

 

*wonders if Andy Thomas ever had a Corolla ?*

 

 

;)

duct tape and cable ties, is there anything they can't fix???

Can you believe this. A billion dollar project, and a multi-million dollar space craft and it doesn't even have a decent tool kit on board.

he's got a hacksaw and pliers and cable ties and race tape. what more of a toolkit do you need?

 

good call about the drifting hahaha

Like one of the guys in Armagedon said "all this technology made by the cheapest bidder"......

 

If the can fix a shuttle with duct tape, i don't feel so bad about using it to hold my air cleaner on temporarily in the ute ;)

Cables ties rock. They're holding my grille in place on my beasty rolla....

Why do they call it a "spacewalk"? After all, he's hardly "walking". More like, "spacefloat". In zero gravity, how do you decide which way is "up"? For all we know, he could have been floating around "above" the belly of the shuttle...

magnetic boots? or is that too star-trekky to be actually in existance yet?

 

and you'd call it "under" if the shuttle was on ground. much like the "underneath" of a car is still the underneath when you roll it on its side to change the clutch ;)

Magnetic boots? Probably do exist, but I think they actually hung him off the service boom or something, so he really wasn't walking or doing anything, he was just stuck to the end of a boom, swinging freely in the breeze ;)

what breeze? ;)

Oh you know, like solar wind and all that sort of jazz...

At that speed, a stationary paint flake can kill an astronaut

;) If it takes that little it's amazing no-ones been killed on a space-dangle yet! I suppose at that sort of speed the momentum of the paint flake would be equal to someone throwing a brick at you on Earth.

can you just imagine for one second how it would feel to be one man, on a bit of metal and rope, hanging alone in space? that's incredible... ;)

Haha @ Solar wind. They orbit at like 25,000 kph or something.

 

At that speed, a stationary paint flake can kill an astronaut

hope he dosent drop the hacksaw then

haha, wow, a maths and science class in one. lets talk physics ;)

its not the fall that hurts, just the sudden thump at the end.

 

WEEEEEEEEEE THIS IS FUN

*CRUNCH* ARRRRRRGH