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| Tuesday, August 2, 2005 03:36 PM |
| I know lives are at stake and all |
| by poppy |
But this space ship fiasco is cracking me up today:
""There won't be any yanking going on at all," Robinson said. "It will be a gentle pull with my hand. If that doesn't work, I have some forceps. I will give it a slightly more than gentle pull. If that doesn't work, I saw it off with a hacksaw.""
I have to say that is how I approach most problems in my life: I tug at them a little bit, then grab for the hacksaw. Of course, the astronauticals are not using just any hacksaw, oh no.
"he'll use a makeshift hacksaw to cut away the material, which is sticking out about an inch from two spots near Discovery's nose. The saw was improvised out of a blade, plastic ties, duct tape, Velcro and other items aboard the space station."
God bless American ingenuity. Nothing like some duct tape and Velcro to make things right.
May they all make it back home safely. |
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