Banjo Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 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 ?* ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRD ke70 Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 duct tape and cable ties, is there anything they can't fix??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Jamie Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northen Rolla Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 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 ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 Cables ties rock. They're holding my grille in place on my beasty rolla.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demuire Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 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... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Jamie Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 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 ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demuire Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 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 ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Jamie Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 what breeze? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demuire Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 Oh you know, like solar wind and all that sort of jazz... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ancullen Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Jamie Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 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... ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4age Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 haha, wow, a maths and science class in one. lets talk physics ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 its not the fall that hurts, just the sudden thump at the end. WEEEEEEEEEE THIS IS FUN *CRUNCH* ARRRRRRGH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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