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Underwear Ninja comes with Space Suit
to blog or not to blog, which is the path a true underwear ninja must take? whichever path it be, it will surely be a rough-hewn one. argyle, possibly. |
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Thursday, July 13, 2006
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astro circus
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is it just me or does this NASA team seem to be the worst NASA team ever?
foam is falling off the shuttle on liftoff after they triple checked that all foam was secure. "o ya we checked it o ya and its all secure and everything is fine". then, on the news: "pieces of foam falling off the shuttle. foam falling off the shuttle was blamed for the columbia disaster etc etc".
then the saftey jet backpack almost came off of the astronaut on his spacewalk! is that some sort of "oops" moment or is it like a "wtf!" moment? but if that wasn't enough, his solution was to duct tape it. i mean i'm a fan of duct tape, but therein lies the problem: they are not being smarter than I am!
so ok, whatever, use duct tape to secure your safety jet pack. but now on the news is that the dude lost a spatula in space. a spatula....
a spatula?!?! what was he using a spatula for out there on his space walk?? ok maybe not making pancakes, maybe (i have my doubts) but what use is there for a spatula when working with a billion dollar piece of equipment? why a spatula? and how could he lose it?
buncha clowns up there. i think this is the result of the cutbacks NASA had to make from the decreased funding. |
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posted by underwear ninja
5:26 AM
 
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1. NASA actually launched over the objection of the saftey engineers. They knew foam would fall... but when and how much foam was the question. After reviewing the tape, they are tickled that it went so well. Like they said before they went up: There is NO POSSIBLE WAY to eliminate risk. They get paid to manage that risk. If they didn't, nothing would EVER get off the ground.
2. Spacewalking astronauts lose tools all the time. I watched the yesturday's spacewalk for about 30 minutes on the NASA channel: and although I didn't actually see the spatula float away, I can totally understand it. They were testing methods to repair heat tiles... they needed the spatula (among other tools) to spred the goop (which is the consistency of peanutbutter). These tools are floating all over the place when they work and although each tool has a tether, they have to constantly clip and unclip things with their big 'ass gloves. I'm suprised they only lost one tool.
3. Duct tape has their new commercial slogan :-) It's the tape of the future of space travel.
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One of the blog sites I have bookmarked is an engineer and her husband who both work at NASA. She posts pictures she takes and the backstories along with stories of her CRAZY neighbors and her 6 dogs and birds.
http://www.for-the-birds.net/
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1. NASA actually launched over the objection of the saftey engineers. They knew foam would fall... but when and how much foam was the question. After reviewing the tape, they are tickled that it went so well. Like they said before they went up: There is NO POSSIBLE WAY to eliminate risk. They get paid to manage that risk. If they didn't, nothing would EVER get off the ground.
2. Spacewalking astronauts lose tools all the time. I watched the yesturday's spacewalk for about 30 minutes on the NASA channel: and although I didn't actually see the spatula float away, I can totally understand it. They were testing methods to repair heat tiles... they needed the spatula (among other tools) to spred the goop (which is the consistency of peanutbutter). These tools are floating all over the place when they work and although each tool has a tether, they have to constantly clip and unclip things with their big 'ass gloves. I'm suprised they only lost one tool.
3. Duct tape has their new commercial slogan :-) It's the tape of the future of space travel.