The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Stevicus]

 

[sun rise]

They're already lining up for Black Friday.

Or a modern update to Boston's tea party

 

[Revoltingest]

Do cemeteries raise prices
due to the cost of living?

 

[sun rise]

Do cemeteries raise prices
due to the cost of living?

You tell such killer jokes.

 

[Revoltingest]

No one steals @Quagmire's car.

 

[sun rise]

No one steals @Quagmire's car.

That would be money business.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I think I may be a sociopath and I am really concerned what others will think about me if I am right. It would really bother me if I did something that caused needless discomfort to another person.

 

[sun rise]

I think I may be a sociopath and I am really concerned what others will think about me if I am right. It would really bother me if I did something that caused needless discomfort to another person.

If you were a sociopath you would not care what others think or what pain you caused.

 

[Revoltingest]

 

[Stevicus]

No toilet for returning SpaceX crew, stuck using diapers (apnews.com)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The astronauts who will depart the International Space Station on Sunday will be stuck using diapers on the way home because of their capsule’s broken toilet.

NASA astronaut Megan McArthur described the situation Friday as “suboptimal” but manageable. She and her three crewmates will spend 20 hours in their SpaceX capsule, from the time the hatches are closed until Monday morning’s planned splashdown.

“Spaceflight is full of lots of little challenges,” she said during a news conference from orbit. “This is just one more that we’ll encounter and take care of in our mission. So we’re not too worried about it.”

After a series of meetings Friday, mission managers decided to bring McArthur and the rest of her crew home before launching their replacements. That SpaceX launch already had been delayed more than a week by bad weather and an undisclosed medical issue involving one of the crew.

SpaceX is now targeting liftoff for Wednesday night at the earliest.

A broken toilet in space.

French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, who will return with McArthur, told reporters that the past six months have been intense up there. The astronauts conducted a series of spacewalks to upgrade the station’s power grid, endured inadvertent thruster firings by docked Russian vehicles that sent the station into brief spins, and hosted a private Russian film crew — a space station first.

They also had to deal with the toilet leak, pulling up panels in their SpaceX capsule and discovering pools of urine. The problem was first noted during SpaceX’s private flight in September, when a tube came unglued and spilled urine beneath the floorboards. SpaceX fixed the toilet on the capsule awaiting liftoff, but deemed the one in orbit unusable.

Engineers determined that the capsule had not been structurally compromised by the urine and was safe for the ride back. The astronauts will have to rely on what NASA describes as absorbent “undergarments.”

On the culinary side, the astronauts grew the first chile peppers in space — “a nice moral boost,” according to McArthur. They got to sample their harvest in the past week, adding pieces of the green and red peppers to tacos.

“They have a nice spiciness to them, a little bit of a lingering burn,” she said. “Some found that more troublesome than others.”

Also returning with McArthur and Pesquet: NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough and Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide. SpaceX launched them to the space station on April 23. Their capsule is certified for a maximum 210 days in space, and with Friday marking their 196th day aloft, NASA is eager to get them back as soon as possible.

One American and two Russians will remain on the space station following their departure. While it would be better if their replacements arrived first — in order to share tips on living in space — Kimbrough said the remaining NASA astronaut will fill in the newcomers.

I guess that would be one of the inconvenient drawbacks of space travel.

They don't really cover this aspect in most of the sci-fi/space movies, although the matter came up in a few Star Trek episodes.

 

[Revoltingest]

No toilet for returning SpaceX crew, stuck using diapers (apnews.com)



A broken toilet in space.



I guess that would be one of the inconvenient drawbacks of space travel.

They don't really cover this aspect in most of the sci-fi/space movies, although the matter came up in a few Star Trek episodes.

Space travel.....
Sitting in your own filth in a claustrophobic
tin can with a high risk of firery death.
What's not to like?

 

[Stevicus]

 

[Revoltingest]

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Space travel.....
Sitting in your own filth in a claustrophobic
tin can with a high risk of firery death.
What's not to like?

Seems over all safe enough. NASA doesn't have a procedure or protocols in place in case someone dies in space, amd to date it's not happened.

 

[Revoltingest]

Seems over all safe enough. NASA doesn't have a procedure or protocols in place in case someone dies in space, amd to date it's not happened.

One source...
The Space Review: Weighing the risks of human spaceflight (page 2)
...puts the mortality rate at 4%
That's pretty dangerous.

 

[sun rise]

One source...
The Space Review: Weighing the risks of human spaceflight (page 2)
...puts the mortality rate at 4%
That's pretty dangerous.

Where's your sense of adventure?

 

[Stevicus]

 

[sun rise]

My wife does not like the color orange.

 

[Revoltingest]

Where's your sense of adventure?

Located in places with wide open spaces.
With many a tree, behind which to pee.
No need for a nappie to make me unhappy.

 

[sun rise]

Republican congressman tweets anime-themed video of him killing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez