Did you hear about this?
SPACE CENTER, Houston - A spacewalking astronaut gently pulled two potentially dangerous strips of protruding filler from Discovery’s tile belly with his gloved hand Wednesday, successfully completing an unprecedented emergency repair.
Apparantly something was sticking out of the bottom of the space shuttle that shouldn't have been there, so they send a guy out to "repair" it. Of course by "repair" they mean he grabbed the little pieces and yanked on them until they came off. It is comforting to know that NASA repairs the multi-billion dollar space shuttle with the same highly specialized techniques I use to repair my 2000 ford focus.
After the repair was made, I wonder if the astronaut threw the removed obstructions into the back seat of the space shuttle with all the empty starbucks cups and taco bell wrappers.
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For 5 decades, we have held such high regard for rocket scientists. Now we discover that they solve problems just like the rest of us.
Scientist One: "These tiles are pretty fragile. When we put them on the shuttle, how will we keep them from chipping or breaking each other?"
Scientist Two: "We could just stuff little rags between them, like my wife does with her Comemerative Elvis Plates."
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