Comments for "Astronaut loses toolbag in space OOPS!" Video at VideoSift.com

By westy

westy (http://www.videosift.com/member/westy) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:21:01 -0800

lack of dedicatoin she should have gone after it

By rosekat

rosekat (http://www.videosift.com/member/rosekat) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:26:43 -0800

Love the frantic arm-flapping! 'Oh man oh man!'

By 11807

11807 (http://www.videosift.com/member/11807) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:52:57 -0800

Ha ha ha ha ha! That's gonna come out of her paycheck. Working in space has got to be the most amazing experience ever. They say the weightlessness diving provides is close to how zero G feels, but nowhere in the ocean can you find truly unlimited visibility!

By dystopianfuturetoday

dystopianfuturetoday (http://www.videosift.com/member/dystopianfuturetoday) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:07:54 -0800

D'OH!

By burdturgler

burdturgler (http://burdturgler.videosift.com) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:39:55 -0800

interview:

By jimnms

jimnms (http://www.videosift.com/member/jimnms) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:33:23 -0800

That's what happens when you let women out of the kitchen and play with your tools.

By bamdrew

bamdrew (http://www.videosift.com/member/bamdrew) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:55:59 -0800

some day I'd like to be hurtling through the vacuum of space and just full-on chuck something down at Earth.

By 10148

10148 (http://www.videosift.com/member/10148) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:12:11 -0800

They need to find a way to retrieve things in space, couldve been worse.

By rychan

rychan (http://www.videosift.com/member/rychan) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:25:37 -0800

If it were something super important they would have managed to retrieve it. They can try to reach it with the robotic arm. I don't know if they have the equipment for untethered space walks. But what they did have, if it were a matter of life or death, was a space shuttle to go fetch it. Or maybe they could just change the station velocity by .2 m/s towards the bag until the robotic arm can grab it.

By 9812

9812 (http://www.videosift.com/member/9812) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:17:53 -0800

>> ^bamdrew:
some day I'd like to be hurtling through the vacuum of space and just full-on chuck something down at Earth.

I have a question for the physicists - what would happen to an object thrown perpendicular to your orbit down toward earth? Disregard atmospheric drag. After one orbit, would that object come back up towards you as fast as you chucked it?

By rychan

rychan (http://www.videosift.com/member/rychan) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:14:45 -0800

>> ^GabaJ:
I have a question for the physicists - what would happen to an object thrown perpendicular to your orbit down toward earth? Disregard atmospheric drag. After one orbit, would that object come back up towards you as fast as you chucked it?

Good question.

Assumption: you don't throw it far enough towards Earth for atmospheric drag to matter, and you are more massive than the object.

my answer: I don't think so, and it's not a simple matter. Lets say you were in a perfectly circular orbit. You throw the object down and now it's in an eccentric orbit (and so are you, for that matter). It no longer has the same orbital period as you, because it has a longer semi-major axis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-major_axis) which means it has a slower orbit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_period)

I could be wrong, though.

By southblvd

southblvd (http://www.videosift.com/member/southblvd) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:15:45 -0800

just use one of those pool nets
that's what i would've done

By MarineGunrock

MarineGunrock (http://www.videosift.com/member/MarineGunrock) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:49:40 -0800

Yes, they have the equipment for untethered EVAs. This (Astronaut Bruce McCandless) is probably the most famous images of someone doing an ExtraVehicular Activity.

By volumptuous

volumptuous (http://www.videosift.com/member/volumptuous) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:44:44 -0800

^ Yeah, but to get back into the spacestation, suit-up with the EVA, and then deploy, would take far too long.

Also, the robotic arm takes far too long to deploy as well, so in either case the bag was just too far away too soon.

By Spoon_Gouge

Spoon_Gouge (http://www.videosift.com/member/Spoon_Gouge) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:45:27 -0800

I wonder who it will hit on re-entry...?

By furrycloud

furrycloud (http://www.videosift.com/member/furrycloud) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:59:42 -0800

Job opening!

By rougy

rougy (http://www.videosift.com/member/rougy) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:47:11 -0800

>> ^rosekat:
Love the frantic arm-flapping! 'Oh man oh man!'

I bet she was saying something worse than that.

Apparantly it would have been a super big deal to go after that toolkit.

Mankind is still a child in space.

By calvados

calvados (http://www.videosift.com/member/calvados) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:51:38 -0800

~~robotic arm~~ Canadarm thank you very much!

http://www.google.ca/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_en-USCA298&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=canadarm

I'm fucken doing it: *CANADA! IN MOTHERFUCKEN SPACE! WOO!

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By brycewi19

brycewi19 (http://www.videosift.com/member/brycewi19) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:37:55 -0800

And I betcha, the way NASA spends money, that those tools cost around a million bucks!

By MINK

MINK (http://www.videosift.com/member/MINK) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:19:39 -0800

all these comments, and not one person mentioned the fact that GIRLS KEEP TOO MUCH SHIT IN THEIR BAGS.

By 9364

9364 (http://www.videosift.com/member/9364) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:30:25 -0800

I'm personally wondering what retard engineer didn't tether the tool pouch to the bag, which itself was tethered. It's SPACE people.. things float away from you constantly. If the tools aren't attached to something, they float away at a moments notice.

It was her fault for not realizing it wasn't tethered. It was the engineers on the grounds fault that it wasn't tethered in the first place.

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By rgroom1

rgroom1 (http://www.videosift.com/member/rgroom1) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:07:06 -0800

The reason that the tools in that bag are worth so much is the fact that they are in space.
It currently costs about $10,000 per pound to get any payload into space. If a toolbag weighs 30 pounds, that's $300,000 invested in getting it up there.
We need a space elevator!!!