Astronauts Lost Tools in Space, Forced to Improvise 82
Ant writes "Neatorama and Popular Science share a CNN story about Russian astronauts repairing the International Space Station (ISS) with improvised tools because they lost the real ones.
How? 'It's a lot like your house,' said Paul Boehm, lead spacewalk officer. 'You set your car keys down somewhere and hopefully you find them again later when you try to remember it.' Uh, yeah, but we're idiots -- you're astronauts. Nonetheless, nice to see the Do It Yourself (DIY) spirit at work in space."
Pffft (Score:3, Funny)
Clearly I am much more intelluhgent then those NASA dudes. And don't even get me started on that Bo Villa guy. If I had 527 different types of wood vices like him, I could HAND CARVE my own six bedroom Colonial..
I'm in Sync with the ISS guys (Score:3, Funny)
I think the way to go is to have different multitools for particular jobs.
I love working on my bike, but man o man what I wouldn't give for a shot to work on the ISS. Of course getting the beer and bong onto the station could be difficult.
space psychology (Score:4, Funny)
That's the problem with earthlings going to space -- we can't deal with space-based habits that contradict our own. On Earth we can hope to find our keys where we set them down. In space they float away.
Chewing gum wrapper, Swiss Army Knife, Duck Tape (Score:4, Funny)
Article headline is ambiguous... (Score:4, Funny)
In Rod We Trust (Score:3, Funny)
Oh, that explains it... (Score:4, Funny)