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Old Dec-17-2006, 02:57 PM   #1
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Hehehe ..Astronaut Loses Camera in Space

http://digg.com/videos_people/Astron...amera_in_Space


You just KNOW this is going to be in one of my toons =). Sometimes they write themselves.
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Old Dec-17-2006, 03:11 PM   #2
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That explains why I found a 1ds MkII in my vegetable patch, wow I knew those things were tough, but re-entry, impressive!
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Old Dec-17-2006, 05:54 PM   #3
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Pretty cool. As long as no-one drives into it in orbit.
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Old Dec-17-2006, 06:47 PM   #4
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Pretty cool. As long as no-one drives into it in orbit.
Yeah, really! 17,000+ mph. That would leave a helluva dent in the camera.
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Old Dec-18-2006, 05:29 AM   #5
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Am I the only one who worries that we are really going to screw things up with all this trash that's in space? It seems that we understand so little about what's out there that for all we know with enough contamination it's all going to come crashing down.
I was reading Dean Rusk's memoir for a paper and it mentioned how in 1959 before doing a high altitude nuclear test the scientest were basically like "this might destroy the van allen belt but we dont think so" and then the blast created a new van allen belt so the scientest said "We grossly miscalculate, oh well" (obviously these aren't direct quotations). Just seems like we need to be more careful.
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Old Dec-18-2006, 07:40 AM   #6
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That explains why I found a 1ds MkII in my vegetable patch, wow I knew those things were tough, but re-entry, impressive!
They are actually Nikons.

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Old Dec-18-2006, 03:21 PM   #7
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Am I the only one who worries that we are really going to screw things up with all this trash that's in space?...
No, not at all. This guy is trying to make NASA accountable for dumb stunts like this. And he works for them.
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Old Dec-19-2006, 12:47 AM   #8
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They are actually Nikons.

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What the hell ? .. how much camera equipment do they have on board(!). He could furnish an outer-space A.V. club ..

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Old Dec-19-2006, 03:14 AM   #9
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Gezzzz that could cause a intergalactic war!
Some UFO is liable to hit it and come to Earth to wipe us all out!!

Ok so I have a over active imagination!
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Nikons huh?....No wonder he threw it away!
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