SHUTTLE LAUNCH

Jack Potato · Post by **Jack Potato** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:37 am

a space shuttle will be launched 3 min from the time this was posted. go to www.yahoo.com for more info!

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Shinizo · Post by **Shinizo** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:38 am

Or go to T.V. to watch it! *watches T.V.*

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Shinizo · Post by **Shinizo** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:43 am

*claps* Yay, it didn't explode

Hopefully, they can make it back in one piece, too.. otherwise, I hope NASA blows up.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:57 am

We were watching it at work, pretty cool. LOL I just posted in science studies, noticed this topic after.

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Jack Potato · Post by **Jack Potato** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:04 am

i wonder exactly where those fuel tanks go... *somewhere in the pacific ocean, a chinese man is fishing on a boat.* "khjbcjkabf!" translate: fish arent biting! *tank falls from sky, heads right for boat* "Oh, SH!T!!!" translate: oh sh!t! WWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

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Shinizo · Post by **Shinizo** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:07 am

Why is Chinese guy in the pacific?! Shouldn't he be in the Indian Ocean... WE'RE BEING INVADED!!! HURRY, DO NOT TELL BUSH!

But, yeah. The two rocket booster thingies break off and come back down to earth, but the giant orange-yellow fuel cell burns up in the atmosphere.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:09 am

Yep, it's all about reuse and recylcle.

Now gas prices will skyrocket.

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Shinizo · Post by **Shinizo** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:10 am

Red Squirrel wrote: Yep, it's all about reuse and recylcle.

Now gas prices will skyrocket.

Time to go to war with ourselves, cause we have like assloads of oil in our stock reserves.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:13 am

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Shinizo · Post by **Shinizo** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:16 am

Red, keep a place open for me in Canada.. infact... After the shuttle comes back down, I'mma move to Canada, cause Bush'll shoot it down for being a terror threat. Then he'll claim he saw missles on it when it took off, and then he'll blow up EVERY state, except Texas. Texas is always better than the will of the people.

Anyways, the shuttle launch was good

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Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:39 am

I saw it! There were two hawks flying around it before it took off. And wow that thing can go fast.

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Shinizo · Post by **Shinizo** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:43 am

I bet the hawks exploded

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Jack Potato · Post by **Jack Potato** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:13 pm

i saw 'em too... i thought it was debris but i watched the re-run and they were birds. probably crapped themselves when it ignited.

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MrSelf · Post by **MrSelf** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 2:17 pm

It's about time!

Actually, I'm really looking forward to NASA retiring the shuttles, we need a new transport vehicle.

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 4:31 pm

I was thinking a giant solonoid, but the problem is TOO MUCH speed.

Would basically be 0-60,000 in seconds, too much impact for the shuttle and people inside, but if the concept is designed it could work well.

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Shinizo · Post by **Shinizo** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 10:31 pm

They said they found shuttle tiles on the ground (aka. debris) around the launch site. Meaning.. it'll explode coming back, most likely.

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Jack Potato · Post by **Jack Potato** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 11:13 pm

then they're stuck...in, the twilight zone! DUN, DUN, DUN!!

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Red Squirrel · Post by **Red Squirrel** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:32 am

Yeah I heard that. Well the surface of the shuttle is suposely very fragile, but at high speeds sterofoam hurts, and can cause damage to the strong part as well. Freaky, really. Not sure why it's so fragile though, but it's a special sterofoam type material they have to use but you'd think they could cover it with something stronger like sheet metal. I guess it has to do with the atmosphere impact too, that material has to be the first thing that hits... I'm not a rocket scientist so I'll stop making assumptions on why it's made the way it is.

My solonoid idea would still be better though.

*loud explosion, as my new invention completely fails badly*

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Cicero · Post by **Cicero** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 11:40 am

Sheet metal would probably melt going through the atmosphere.

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Reaper · Post by **Reaper** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 1:45 pm

Shinizo wrote: They said they found shuttle tiles on the ground (aka. debris) around the launch site. Meaning.. it'll explode coming back, most likely.

Debris came off after it launched, no where near the launch site. I think I heard it was foam from the big orange fuel tank.

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Jack Potato · Post by **Jack Potato** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:59 pm

they have video footage of somethin falling off..

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OLKMED · Post by **OLKMED** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:14 pm

people give NASA so much crap about stuff blowing up, but someday we'll probably be thanking them.

if you compare shuttle launches and landings to something like the beta test of a video game or windows XP

they have had a small amount of bugs

EDIT: fixed the smiley

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Jack Potato · Post by **Jack Potato** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:09 pm

oh great nasa...thank you.:worship:

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