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Community => The Lounge => Topic started by: Spanky on Thursday, February 24, 2011, 01:46:27 AM

Title: Discovery's last mission
Post by: Spanky on Thursday, February 24, 2011, 01:46:27 AM: NASA will be launching mission STS-133 using the Discovery shuttle. This will mark the last mission of Discovery's service in over 25 years. Discovery is the first to retire in the fleet (aside from those that exploded lulz) and is the pride and joy of the fleet having hauled such payloads such as the Hubble space telescope. It will be launching tomorrow at 4:50PM EST. I think it will be on NASA TV ( http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html ) and I plan to watch it.
Title: Re: Discovery's last mission
Post by: Spanky on Thursday, February 24, 2011, 14:30:08 PM: That's why I'm going to watch. NASA doesn't have an excellent "firsts" and "lasts" track record.
Title: Re: Discovery's last mission
Post by: BlueBlaster on Thursday, February 24, 2011, 16:13:19 PM: Should be like Top Gear in space.
Title: Re: Discovery's last mission
Post by: Alex on Thursday, February 24, 2011, 16:15:22 PM: Quote from: Major-Skrewup on Thursday, February 24, 2011, 03:16:11 AM
i hope during launch it sorta just flops onto its side

and explodes
You "hope" good people die?
Title: Re: Discovery's last mission
Post by: Spanky on Thursday, February 24, 2011, 16:23:28 PM: Quote from: KiLLaMaN on Thursday, February 24, 2011, 16:15:22 PM
You "hope" good people die?

He's butthurt cuz I couldn't care less about his snake incident so he came in and tried to crap on my thread.
Title: Re: Discovery's last mission
Post by: Alex on Friday, February 25, 2011, 06:55:57 AM: Quote from: Major-Skrewup on Friday, February 25, 2011, 00:52:36 AM
well, i didnt mention anyone dieing, thats you jumping to that conclusion sir
If the shuttle explodes, I'm pretty sure the people inside would die.
Title: Re: Discovery's last mission
Post by: Alex on Friday, February 25, 2011, 14:39:29 PM: Quote from: Major-Skrewup on Friday, February 25, 2011, 08:42:23 AM
how do u figure? cos no one can survive high speed crashes? no one can survive natural disasters? or just cos shuttles for some reason dont have eject buttons?
It EXPLODED. Explosion = boom everything is dead. It would be one thing if it just fell, but you said "and exploded". You can't survive a space shuttle explosion, you know home much rocket fuel is there? and NO, there is no eject button is a space shuttle, why would there be?
Title: Re: Discovery's last mission
Post by: BlueBlaster on Friday, February 25, 2011, 16:51:59 PM: Currently watching.
Title: Re: Discovery's last mission
Post by: Spanky on Friday, February 25, 2011, 17:06:07 PM: Quote from: BlueBlaster on Friday, February 25, 2011, 16:51:59 PM
Currently watching.

It went up yesterday... Right now, I believe it's still in orbit on it's way to the space station.
Title: Re: Discovery's last mission
Post by: Alex on Friday, February 25, 2011, 20:17:02 PM: Quote from: Major-Skrewup on Friday, February 25, 2011, 20:15:00 PM
incase one fell over and exploded... dur

That doesn't happen though. it happened way back in the day with the unmanned rockets when we were testing the technology, but space shuttles don't just fall over.
Title: Re: Discovery's last mission
Post by: Spanky on Friday, February 25, 2011, 20:56:15 PM: Quote from: Major-Skrewup on Friday, February 25, 2011, 20:19:17 PM
gee wiz if only we had an ejector seat or two

I know for a fact they said that back in the day.
Title: Re: Discovery's last mission
Post by: Alex on Friday, February 25, 2011, 21:01:03 PM: An ejector seat wouldn't work in a space shuttle for many reasons.
Title: Re: Discovery's last mission
Post by: Spanky on Friday, February 25, 2011, 21:28:00 PM: Quote from: KiLLaMaN on Friday, February 25, 2011, 21:01:03 PM
An ejector seat wouldn't work in a space shuttle for many reasons.

Yup. The emergency plan they have is if something goes wrong, they release the solid rocket boosters and fuel tank then glide back to a runway.
Title: Re: Discovery's last mission
Post by: Spanky on Saturday, February 26, 2011, 14:20:47 PM: Quote from: Major-Skrewup on Saturday, February 26, 2011, 06:02:47 AM
im theory

I'm hypothesis.

On another note, who's the sexy one-eyed butt pirate with the lightning bolt tattoo on his surgically enhanced schlong?
Title: Re: Discovery's last mission
Post by: BlueBlaster on Saturday, February 26, 2011, 14:32:57 PM: Oh man I thought it was a thunder-cannon attachment mod.