UFO Delays Shuttle Landing!

[Jocko]

Notice how the 'ring' turns into the edge of something that looks like a cleaning cloth. I think somebody left a wipe in the payload bay. Either that, or it's a space jellyfish.

Er, it looks to me like something left by a someone's unauthorized re-entry, if you catch my drift. Doing it in the payload bay while the shuttle's on the pad... now that's kinky.

 

[Psi Baba]

Response #33 does NOT address the questions I quaried:

It rebutted your claim that NASA is silent on the subject of space debris.

Where did these 'items' come from, off the shuttle? *I.E. the two 'rings' and the foil or metal fabric, and plastic bag?

They might have, or they might have already been floating in space.

*Where is the NASA site that inventories exactly what was on the shuttle when it left, and was 'missing' when it came back???

Why is one needed? Who needs to know other than NASA personnel?

If these items did not come from the shuttle, what are the chances of something sharing the same orbit and speed as the shuttle?

Pretty good, due to the number of fragments of space debris already in orbit.

 

[Jocko]

Pretty good, due to the number of fragments of space debris already in orbit.

Actually, a moment's thought will lead you to the forehead-slapping conclusion that, since the shuttle was in the same orbit as the ISS, which has been under more or less constant construction for many years, that its particular orbit and speed are probably one of the most COMMON places to find debris and such. After all, that's where the work is done.

You're more lilkely to find loose nails around a construction site than you are in a meadow, after all. And you're more likely to find loose screws in a KOA conspiracy than pretty much anywhere else on (or above) earth.

 

[webfusion]

Junk and more junk...

As an after-point, I read last week in the newspaper that NASA is seeking to eliminate the strict debris-tracking protocols, because there is just so much of the debris, (and also they are fairly annoyed at the delay caused to the re-entry by the mere observance of some typical space junk).
NASA is also perturbed at the Russians, who are operating in the same sector of the Int'l Station, since they are notorious for leaving behind miscellaneous stuff, and if the American crews had to stop what they were doing every time a bit of scrap material appeared, they would be spending an inordinate amount of effort trying to identify each and every speck of space garbage up there.

This has been the subject of discussion in the past, and is now again the focus of a budgetary shortfall ---
http://www.space.com/news/spaceagencies/orbital_debris_020422.html

and
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0119_060119_space_junk.html

and

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/earth/spacejunk.shtml

For the record...

 

[King of the Americas]

Well, here's the latest from NASA:

http://today.reuters.com/news/artic...RTRUKOC_0_US-SPACE-SHUTTLE.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Well, here's the latest from NASA:

http://today.reuters.com/news/artic...RTRUKOC_0_US-SPACE-SHUTTLE.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

Looks like they're still in cover-up mode. I hope no one buys this story.

 

[webfusion]

Hmmmmm, 1/10th of an inch impact damage to those huge 'radiator shields' which are exposed to the vagaries of spaceflight in a debris-rich environment ---- yep, sounds like a major UFO conspiracy to me....

 

[varwoche]

Hmmmmm, 1/10th of an inch impact damage to those huge 'radiator shields' which are exposed to the vagaries of spaceflight in a debris-rich environment ---- yep, sounds like a major UFO conspiracy to me....

Trying (for fun) to imagine the UFO angle... Seeing as these UFOs are so small, I picture Plankton (from Spongebob) flying a tiny spaceship decoyed as a rock or maybe a box of crackerjack.

 

[Jocko]

Well, here's the latest from NASA:

http://today.reuters.com/news/artic...RTRUKOC_0_US-SPACE-SHUTTLE.xml&src=rss&rpc=22

Are you suggesting that this impact is what the astronauts felt when they "bumped" into something? Or are you conceding that this bit of debris is just like all the millions of other peices of debris, including the fluff in the shared orbit?

I would really love to see a happy ending to one of these threads for a change and see you choose the latter option.

 

[Jocko]

Trying (for fun) to imagine the UFO angle... Seeing as these UFOs are so small, I picture Plankton (from Spongebob) flying a tiny spaceship decoyed as a rock or maybe a box of crackerjack.

You are being quite tastelessly flip over the death of millions of brave, microscopic alien astronauts in this tragedy. How do you live with yourself?