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NASA crash in a land down under, where winds blow and scientists blunder

HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of AuRegistered User regular
edited April 2010 in Social Entropy++
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20100429/sc_space/hugenasascienceballooncrashesinaustralianoutback


Can you say "whoops". Brought to you by the same people who want to put manned missions on Mars but can't launch a fucking balloon.


Seriously though, what did they expect would happen in a country ran by poisonous vermin and koala bears.

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn that is embarrassing.

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    it's a coverup for aliens

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Welcome to Earf, mate!

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  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    crikey

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  • Clint EastwoodClint Eastwood My baby's in there someplace She crawled right inRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    "whoops"

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I hope the guy who built the telescope isn't the same guy who built the balloon. Because they are going to tussle

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    so how uh

    how do you fuck that up

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Well then

    G'day, mate!

    Let's put another shrimp on the barbie!

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    That sort of makes me want to cry. I hate to think of the people who spent years building that telescope, only to have it shattered all over the damn outback.

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Imagine having to explain to your car insurance company about how a rogue NASA balloon carrying millions of dollars of telescopes got loose and flipped your SUV.

    No really, it was a NASA balloon.

    Yes in Australia.

    Yes, it got loose...yes the expensive balloon full of highly technical equipment just got loose.

    Yes I'll hold.

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Jedoc wrote: »
    That sort of makes me want to cry. I hate to think of the people who spent years building that telescope, only to have it shattered all over the damn outback.

    yeah, me too definitely

    it's like if the only copy of a book I wrote burst into flames

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  • SquallSquall hap cloud Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    if this is an english system blunder I will laugh and laugh

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Hunter wrote: »
    Imagine having to explain to your car insurance company about how a rogue NASA balloon carrying millions of dollars of telescopes got loose and flipped your SUV.

    "Yeah right buddy, that's the oldest line in the book"

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I mean, that would push me into tectonic shifting levels of anger.

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Squall wrote: »
    if this is an english system blunder I will laugh and laugh

    It looks more like a "someone forgot to fasten or clip something" blunder. It gets loose from the boom there way to close to the ground, and the delicate equipment was no match for solid objects and the earth itself.

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  • Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    this reminds me of my favorite Chinua Achebe novel
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  • Ruby RhodRuby Rhod Multipass!Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Oh man, I would cry if I worked on any part of that.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I mean, the Genesis crash was pretty understandable. The probe had been out in space, was rocketing through the atmosphere, and we were depending on stuntmen in helicopters to catch the damn thing. There's a lot of room for things to go terribly wrong there.

    But this? It's a balloon. I'm pretty sure a couple of Frenchmen could have gotten this shit done two hundred years ago.

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    whoooooooooooooooooooooooops

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    oh god I hope it was some goofy unpaid intern who just missed a clip and just watched and started to slowly shuffle away.

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Langly wrote: »
    oh god I hope it was some goofy unpaid intern who just missed a clip and just watched and started to slowly shuffle away.

    Imagine if it turns out to be this guy again

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  • Ruby RhodRuby Rhod Multipass!Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Langly wrote: »
    oh god I hope it was some goofy unpaid intern who just missed a clip and just watched and started to slowly shuffle away.

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  • cadmunkycadmunky One hand on the bottle, The other a shaking fist.Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    jeezus gods. terrible. i feel for these guys.

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  • Ruby RhodRuby Rhod Multipass!Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Hunter wrote: »
    Langly wrote: »
    oh god I hope it was some goofy unpaid intern who just missed a clip and just watched and started to slowly shuffle away.

    Imagine if it turns out to be this guy again

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    Who is this?

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Ruby Rhod wrote: »
    Hunter wrote: »
    Langly wrote: »
    oh god I hope it was some goofy unpaid intern who just missed a clip and just watched and started to slowly shuffle away.

    Imagine if it turns out to be this guy again

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    Who is this?

    You are not familiar with the Aussie Party Kid?

    Watch this and weep. It's 100% true.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qm61svN4U5g

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  • LanglyLangly Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    I loved that story

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  • KrunkMcGrunkKrunkMcGrunk Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    He's the baddest mother fucker to have ever existed.

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  • HunterHunter Chemist with a heart of Au Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    His glasses are famous.

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  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Watching the NASA balloon video, there's something fascinating about watching something so expensive shred itself to garbage in a matter of seconds.

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  • Ruby RhodRuby Rhod Multipass!Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    What are you going to say? Ahhh... Sorry? Hahahahaha

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  • Apparition8Apparition8 Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    A dingo ate my balloon

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Apparition8 wrote: »
    A dingo ate my balloon

    You know that's a true story? Lady lost her kid

    You 'bout to cross some fuckin' lines

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  • cadmunkycadmunky One hand on the bottle, The other a shaking fist.Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    oh yeah, the japanese are supposed to use aus as a catchers mitt too. hope it works out.

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  • ArangArang HUEY LEWISRegistered User regular
    edited April 2010
    don't be so harsh on the guy

    maybe a dingo ate his sensitivity

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  • Ruby RhodRuby Rhod Multipass!Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    That's not a balloon. This is a balloon!

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  • Canada_jezusCanada_jezus Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    That is one rad dude, his replies are fantastic

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  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Ruby Rhod wrote: »
    That's not a balloon. This is a balloon!

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    no, dummy, that's super grover.

    geeze.

    get a brain, moran.

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  • cadmunkycadmunky One hand on the bottle, The other a shaking fist.Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Fishman wrote: »
    Watching the NASA balloon video, there's something fascinating about watching something so expensive shred itself to garbage in a matter of seconds.

    i've had two missions fail shortly after launch and splash into the ocean. no scraps to pick up though, that would just be heart-wrenching.

    not mine, but the noaa-n fuckup is well documented in our safety manuals.

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  • Ruby RhodRuby Rhod Multipass!Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Canada_jezus wrote: »
    That is one rad dude, his replies are fantastic

    :o

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  • Canada_jezusCanada_jezus Registered User regular
    edited April 2010
    Ruby Rhod wrote: »
    Canada_jezus wrote: »
    That is one rad dude, his replies are fantastic

    :o

    How green was that interview? Oh super-green! EMERALD!

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