Comments | phinnia: moar clickies

phinnia

moar clickies

Feb 11, 2009 21:13

russian and american satellites collide. First incident of its kind.

Chris, upon hearing the relative size (950 KG to 537 KG) of the two satellites, said the american satellite never had a chance;

"I WILL TAKE YOUR LUNCH MONEY." "i don't have-no no no!" fwam "OH SHIT. AM NOW IN PIECES, CANNOT SPEND LUNCH MONEY. I SHOULD HAVE LEARNED FROM BORIS ( Read more... )

phin is a broken record sometimes, pain, my friends are awesome

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maladaptive February 12 2009, 12:51:45 UTC

Go go cats! I should have offered up some of our black cats-- we have five of them in our family. Why do we keep getting black cats? God only knows, but we do.

Also that tea maker needs to be on sale. NOW.

the_new_perfect February 12 2009, 15:10:37 UTC

I hope the ice cream showed your pain who's boss.

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tallin February 12 2009, 15:49:07 UTC

It is REQUIRED that you imagine the Russian satellite speaking with deep, gruff voice and campy faux Russian accent. Then again-you likely knew this.

blackfelicula February 12 2009, 16:05:26 UTC

The liquid bookmarks make me wonder if a do-it-yourself variety is obtainable via liquid latex and a hard surface on which to pour...

chezmax February 12 2009, 18:02:40 UTC

Apparently since the satellites are moving at ridiculous speeds (say, 27000 km/h) they turned into plasma. That's like being *vaporized* for not offering your lunch money.

(Neat quirk: because of the speed they collided at, their debris clouds will continue in their previous orbits, due to them turning to plasma faster than the speed of sound (that is faster than the collision forces could propogate), and not alter like pool balls do when they collide. Now that's kind of cool.