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Duct Tape (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Duct Tape (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Duct Tape (Score:4, Interesting)
For this story to be true, the splint must have been applied indoors and kept under clothing.
Re:Duct Tape (Score:4, Funny)
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Re:Duct Tape (Score:5, Funny)
Yes and No!
Re:Duct Tape (Score:5, Funny)
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Duct tape is perfect for everything but Ducts.
Re:Duct Tape (Score:4, Interesting)
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Without an atmosphere I would imagine it gets pretty toasty as well.
Should be enough to warm adhesive.
like the force (Score:4, Funny)
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Well at least now we know why he came up with them.
He probably considered the duct tape joke to be infringing on his Star Wars IP rights, and since the courts wouldn't take him seriously, he took other steps.
Well played, Lucas. Well played.
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Actually, the midichlorians thing really got me too
Re:Duct Tape (Score:5, Funny)
If it moves and is not supposed to, use Duct Tape.
If it doesn't move and is supposed to, use WD40.
If both of those fail, then I guess you can savely assume it's broken.
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Re:Duct Tape (Score:5, Interesting)
It may be urban legend, but I heard the military calls it "hundred mile per hour tape" because once in some godforsaken jungle somewhere a helicopter broke a rotor (gunshot or something) and the mechanic duct taped it together, telling the pilot to "keep it under a hundred miles an hour".
They used to seal ducts with the stuff.
Has anyone ever taped ducks together with it?
Re:Duct Tape (Score:5, Interesting)
Your coolant system patches must've used different duct tape than mine: the hot water melted the adhesive and it was leaking like a sieve in a dozen km. I managed to get home, barely.
Re:Duct Tape (Score:5, Funny)
Any other use is unsupported by the manufacturer.
Re:Duct Tape (Score:4, Interesting)
ObRedGreen Ref (Score:5, Insightful)
The voids... (Score:4, Funny)
Key Roll? (Score:3, Funny)
I guess both are valid...
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photos (Score:5, Informative)
The quality of the photographs from the moon always grabs me, and the duct-taped fender here is no exception.
Medium-format sized negatives. Shitloads of light (large depth of field and high shutter speeds.) No atmosphere to bend light between subject and camera.
Also, you've got really hard shadows because the light isn't diffused at all by an atmosphere.
Cameras (Score:4, Informative)
Pro-level gear with big film can give some really incredibly detailed photos.
Re:Cameras (Score:5, Informative)
Yup. Swedish engineered camera with German lenses. Pretty much the best of both worlds. For your information [nasa.gov].
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KEY roll of duct tape? (Score:5, Insightful)
It is interesting to think about dust in a vacuum, where if it is kicked up with a large forward velocity, it will fall back down on you or even ahead of you, whereas on Earth it would get pushed behind you by friction...
US Government Olive Drab Duct Tape (Score:4, Funny)
One day he found a roll of duct tape lying around somewhere on a sub that was in for repair. It didn't appear as if anyone was using it.
However, one was not permitted to just remove stuff left lying around - someone might still be needing it.
So dad went through the proper channels, which involved filing a form in which he requested the removal of the duct tape. This had to be signed by his manager. I don't remember clearly, but maybe it had to be signed by his manager's manager.
Once the paperwork was all squared away, someone was sent in to the sub to remove the roll of duct tape - only to find that it wasn't there anymore!
Your tax dollars at work!
the key roll of duct tape (Score:2, Redundant)
Gorilla Glue Duct Tape (Score:2)
It's more expensive, about $10 a roll, but it really is the best tape out there. I've used it seal stuff outdoors and a year later, it's still holding. If NASA doesn't take a few rolls of this stuff to the moon, they're not paying attention.
I duct taped a friend to a wall (Score:2)
I had him stand on a chair, then applied tape liberally. When I was all done, I removed the chair.
He stayed up there for five minutes, but eventually had to come down as it was getting very uncomfortable.
Another friend who was an art major made a tasteful arrangement of the leftover tape, stuck back on the wall where he had been. He then typed up a little sign that commemorated the event, and said that I was a conceptual artist who is often compared to
Played a bigger role in Apollo 13 (Score:2, Informative)
Saved the day. Without it, the astronauts would have died of CO2 poisoning. Apparently, the design was so good, it became a standard emergency procedure in future missions.
Filthy astronauts. (Score:5, Funny)
Back when we really had a Pioneer program (Score:4, Interesting)
How many people do you know that would jump on an opportunity for a manned mission to mars? Just to be the first to do it. Even if you don't make it, you'd still provide useful information and go down in history as a great pioneer. Hell there is a certain religion or two down here that have people clamoring all over their selves to die for some glorious amorphous cause. Put them to work. Launch those space monkeys up there so they can be closer to their [Deity].
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You know that's much more the old Russian style, not the US style. We were never so gung-ho that we would find a 50% survival rate acceptable. The US was very meticulous and careful during the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. The only fatalities that resulted from the program were the Apollo 1 astronauts. After that, there was a huge delay as they did a thorough investigation into the cause of the accident and made many changes to make it safer (not using pure oxygen in the capsule, better wiring, made
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Awesome. And I will totally send my kids to Smooth Wombat High.
Three things you need to fix anything (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Three things you need to fix anything (Score:4, Funny)
Always be worried when you see someone that works with computers carrying a 30 pound sledge hammer with a big smile on his/her face.
There are probably full audio for this on the LSJ (Score:4, Informative)
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/alsj/frame.html [nasa.gov]
Craploads of imagery from all surface missions, full transcripts, and audio.
Duct tape saved my weekend (Score:3, Interesting)
The next morning, it hit me, I could wrap the pipe with duct tape to seal the hole and it worked! I cleaned my dishes, pots, pans and made pasta on Saturday; it even held up when I poured the boiling water down the drain.
Not quite a NASA moon mission, but I did gain a new appreciation for duct tape.
been done before by NASA? (Score:3, Informative)
Gaffa's better. (Score:3, Informative)
Easier to tear, less residue, matte surface.
Need I go on?
Slightly off topic... (Score:3, Informative)
And good luck with that. You'll turn up nothing but "articles" linked to commercial products. You have to use "Lunar Rover". (And it's an article ripped form a single source (albeit NASA))
I wonder if someone could fix Wikipedia's search engine with duct tape? Though I suspect that it's far beyond that kind of repair.
Re:Duct tape great for everything BUT ducts. (Score:5, Informative)
Wet Ammo? (Score:3)
Maybe for other stuff like electronics or such. But ammo?
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Re:Ammo for the conspiracy theorists? (Score:4, Informative)
This is what I see in the photo [nasa.gov]: if you look at the front right wheel, you'll see an S-shaped trench leading away from it, going off-camera in the bottom-right of the image. You'll also notice that at the bottom-right of the image a footprint appears which seems to have significantly altered the trench. Actually it looks like it filled it in.
The moondust is very light and prone to redistribution (that's the whole point of TFA, in fact), so perhaps just stepping near a tire-track is enough to fill in the trench (after the dust settles)? If so, then when you look at the back-right wheel, you'll see that there are footprints there which may have disturbed the ground and filled in the trench from the wheel (especially since he would have had to walk all over the place near that wheel while performing the repair). Actually there are some faint indications of where a track may have once been.
I'm certainly no expert in these kinds of things, but it seems to me that working near the vehicle would quickly disturb any tracks, because of how light the rocks and dust are on the moon.
You're right, I looked it up (Score:3, Funny)