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wildhorse
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 Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 3:38 pm Post subject: Cosmonauts Complete Spacewalk, Unfold Russian Flag in Space |
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Who wants to be a Cosmonaut? The size limitations to squeeze into that phone booth that is called a Soyuz is laughable. When are the Russians ever going to develop a booster to be able to launch anything other than a tincan?
They are one step past ESA. At least the tincan can soft land back on Earth!
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| Posted: Sat Aug 24, 2013 6:27 am Post subject: |
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| OK. Maybe they should let the Oblablanauts in the ISS wait for the next commercial flight back home. |
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| wildhorse wrote: | | OK. Maybe they should let the Oblablanauts in the ISS wait for the next commercial flight back home. |
That's what happens when you throw away three good orbiters.
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| Old School wrote: | | wildhorse wrote: | | OK. Maybe they should let the Oblablanauts in the ISS wait for the next commercial flight back home. |
That's what happens when you throw away three good orbiters. |
lol Americans and their big cars!
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| BoneKracker wrote: | | Old School wrote: | | wildhorse wrote: | | OK. Maybe they should let the Oblablanauts in the ISS wait for the next commercial flight back home. |
That's what happens when you throw away three good orbiters. |
lol Americans and their big cars! |
As wildhorse well knows, size does matter!
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In 2013 it is a notable achievement to unfurl a flag in space?
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| Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| pjp wrote: | | In 2013 it is a notable achievement to unfurl a flag in space? |
Well, if you can't make it to the moon, just unfurl one randomly between the earth and moon.
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| Muso wrote: | | pjp wrote: | | In 2013 it is a notable achievement to unfurl a flag in space? |
Well, if you can't make it to the moon, just unfurl one randomly between the earth and moon. |
They probably did it to conceal from the cameras the explosives they were mounting to the ESA Columbus module.
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To be fair, the Russian spacesuits are working.
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| Old School wrote: | | To be fair, the Russian spacesuits are working. |
How do you know they're not the ones who sabotaged ours, so we wouldn't notice the explosives the put on the ESA Columbus module?
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| I suggest you fly your flag of convencience wherever those shuttles are now and show a nice display of fireworks for the Challenger and Columbia. Because size matters. |
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| pjp wrote: | | In 2013 it is a notable achievement to unfurl a flag in space? |
I guess that it is a bigger deal in 2013 than in 1969 in the eyes of wildhorse. 
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| warrens wrote: | | pjp wrote: | | In 2013 it is a notable achievement to unfurl a flag in space? |
I guess that it is a bigger deal in 2013 than in 1969 in the eyes of wildhorse. |
I think it was meant to be ironic. Plus the US flag was put on the moon, where there is gravity 
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Long way away, too.
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| wildhorse wrote: | | I suggest you fly your flag of convencience wherever those shuttles are now and show a nice display of fireworks for the Challenger and Columbia. Because size matters. |
I launch bottle rockets on July 4 with more power than a Russian booster.
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| Old School wrote: | | wildhorse wrote: | | I suggest you fly your flag of convencience wherever those shuttles are now and show a nice display of fireworks for the Challenger and Columbia. Because size matters. |
I launch bottle rockets on July 4 with more power than a Russian booster. |
I launch sperm cells with more power than a Spanish one.
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wildhorse
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| Old School wrote: | | wildhorse wrote: | | I suggest you fly your flag of convencience wherever those shuttles are now and show a nice display of fireworks for the Challenger and Columbia. Because size matters. |
I launch bottle rockets on July 4 with more power than a Russian booster. |
You are not the only one. Note the proper spacesuit helmet. |
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| wildhorse wrote: | | Old School wrote: | | wildhorse wrote: | | I suggest you fly your flag of convencience wherever those shuttles are now and show a nice display of fireworks for the Challenger and Columbia. Because size matters. |
I launch bottle rockets on July 4 with more power than a Russian booster. |
You are not the only one. Note the proper spacesuit helmet. |
Hey! Don't mock the propeller-beanie. That's a time-honored Science Fiction Fan Tradition.
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