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December 11, 2008 at 12:06 am
i just finished a class that went through practically everything about the space shuttle program, including the external tank. a pretty bitchin’ system overall.
im curious as to where/how this was taken – after ET separation, the tank burns up in the atmosphere. this clearly isnt burning up.
CGI perhaps?
December 11, 2008 at 12:07 am
Shuttle tank im assuming.
Wonder what grade of metal is used for making one of those.
December 11, 2008 at 12:10 am
@Nimbo:
it is an aluminum-lithium alloy
December 11, 2008 at 12:10 am
@compasseagle89:
I was thinking that its a test to make sure it detaches smoothly and stuff like that.
December 11, 2008 at 12:11 am
It could be a camera installed on the shuttle, or a chase jet flying really high. Either that or a ground based camera with really REALLY good lenses and scopes.
Oh, and “HEADS UP!”
December 11, 2008 at 12:13 am
wait, wait…i think im looking at this from the wrong perspective – thats not the sky – thats the ocean.
wow. i just got some serious vertigo…awesome…
December 11, 2008 at 12:18 am
shiiiiiiiiiittttt
December 11, 2008 at 12:41 am
You’re all crazy! That’s a vibrator!!
December 11, 2008 at 12:48 am
S124-E-005043 (31 May 2008) — Backdropped by a blue and white part of Earth, the STS-124 external fuel tank (ET) begins its relative separation from the Space Shuttle Discovery. An STS-124 crewmember recorded the scene with a digital still camera.
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-124/html/s124e005043.html
December 11, 2008 at 12:50 am
@bravo1romeo:
score! good searching…
December 11, 2008 at 12:56 am
@compasseagle89: Google is my second brain
December 11, 2008 at 1:01 am
lol looks like a zoomed in bullet
December 11, 2008 at 1:29 am
@compasseagle89:
I’m wondering what fucked up class told you that told you that those burn up in the atmosphere.
they do not.
December 11, 2008 at 2:01 am
@tiki god:
alright, so it doesnt completely burn up, but the ET is the only part of the shuttle that isnt reusable, it isnt designed to exactly survive re-entry.
“burn up” is a little extreme, but re-entry does destroy them.
December 11, 2008 at 2:06 am
Inverted Invisible Shuttle…
December 11, 2008 at 2:17 am
@Phyreblade: Damnit! You beat me to it.
December 11, 2008 at 2:28 am
@nyokki:
December 11, 2008 at 2:50 am
“Too answer your question, something like that!” Oh how I miss you old funny Family Guy.
December 11, 2008 at 3:29 am
*A scene at NORAD*
Radar Operator:Sir we are seeing something on the radar screen.
Overseer: Well what is it?
Radar Operator: I don’t know sir, but it looks like a giant…
*A baseball pitch*
Comentator: Schwang! That is right, that is the sound the bat made. He look at that, it looks like…
*A classroom*
Teacher: A huge giant dildo, that is your topic. Begin!
Some kid: Hey is that a…
*A chicken farm*
Farmer: Cock, this is my prized cock, guaranteed to give great offspirng. Hey what is that…
December 11, 2008 at 4:39 am
@General X: ROFL… SPACEBALLS FTW!!!!
December 11, 2008 at 7:22 am
The shuttle takes pictures of the ET every launch to assess any damage it (the ET) has sustained.. dammit whats wrong with people.. one of the coolest systems ever designed.. Non-geeks. Yes, that is an insult.
December 11, 2008 at 10:23 am
@Phyreblade: Thats from Austin Powers
December 11, 2008 at 10:32 am
@compasseagle89: I though the external fuel tank just crashes into the ocean and gets reused?
December 11, 2008 at 12:44 pm
@TGGeko: DOH!!
Dagnabbit I got my comedies mixed up… LOL
OK. AUSTIN POWERS FTW!!!!
December 11, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Idiots.
You’d think people would recognize airborne, wheat silos when they see them.
December 12, 2008 at 12:00 am
@Phyreblade: “Inverted Invisible Shuttle” ok which page is that in the NASA Sutra? I kinda got distracted by the “Obital Insertion”
December 12, 2008 at 12:12 am
@SumoSnipe: Pg. 69… can’t miss it…
December 12, 2008 at 3:28 am
@Namelis1:
nope. the SRBs and the Orbiter get reused, but the external tank is not reused.
this, i am certain of.
December 12, 2008 at 9:10 am
penis
and @compasseagle89: not burning, just burnt
December 12, 2008 at 6:46 pm
@traptin85:
i already clarified that, thanks.
im not making this stuff up guys.
“When the SSMEs are shut down, the ET is jettisoned, enters the Earth’s atmosphere, breaks up, and impacts in a remote ocean area. It is not recovered.”
science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/sts-newsref/et.html
straight from NASA, and i think they would know what their shuttle is doing.