Heidemarie 'Toolbag' Piper set for second spacewalk Endeavour mission specialists Shane Kimbrough and Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper are getting ready for the second mission STS-126 spacewalk outside the International Space Station this afternoon, scheduled to get under way at 18:45 GMT. Their lisk of jobs includes "the relocation of two crew and equipment translation aid carts, the …
Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper, first woman to be put in charge of a space walk, typical NASA payload specialist, probably has a brain the size of a small planet, and looses the tool bag.
Embarrassment facing the crew ... imagine when she has to face other women!
As for the boy spider, bet the girl spider gobbled him up.
Gone AWOL my arse, the remaining spider has just put on a bit of weight!
Probably became enraged (scared sh*tless) at being forced to go through lift off and then orbital transition and took it out on it's fellow arachnid.
Poor things, just get the students pissed and ask them to crochet, same effect.
that spiders are carnivorous and very territorial? I suspect they'll find the dry empty husk of the missing spider somewhere in the tangle of web. This is why spider silk can't be made in commercial quantities by raising hoardes of spiders, they eat each other. Then again, maybe the missing spider is out trying to retrieve the missing tool bag.
I say give the lady a break. Yes, I had a chuckle over it, too, but we all make mistakes. Yes, her mistake probably cost considerably more than our mistakes. But nobody claimed she was super-human or flawless. She's probably putting herself through more psychologically than any of us could do to her (and likely more than she deserves). Now, if she makes the same mistake again, then reel her in. Otherwise, admit that mistakes happen, and that we all make them.
On a sad note, given his typical outbursts, I can't tell if Webster is being satirical or not. For the good of humanity, I hope so, but somehow, I suspect he isn't.
says that some orb spiders are semi-social. Yet my bet ist that the were not and to avoid the embarrassment of exposed incompetence to the bio unit down on terra firma, the dry empty husk was discarded. Inside that toolbag. Which is why Piper had trouble facing her costronauts. They knew what she did out there.
Peaceful farmer knocked stiff by toolbag falling from out of a clear sky!!
As for the space spiders--well, I'm afraid there's no stopping them now. I would just like to remind them that as a respected member of the business community, I can be instrumental in recruiting slave labor for work in their breeding caves.....
Dirk, was without a doubt the world's unluckiest Orb Spider. Not only was he captured and
incarcerated in a perspex prison, but he was subjected to massive G forces and subsequent
weightlessness while being abducted and taken aboard an orbiting space station.
In his desperate attempts to escape, Dirk managed to squeeze out of his cage. Hoping to
find a way to stowaway and get back to Earth, he hid inside a small toolbag.............
Perhaps "Unplanned Orbital Insertion?" It certainly sounds better than "accidental test of the NEO tracking capabilities of NASA." Maybe they're getting ready to throw some more useless junk overboard and are looking for a good way to lose it to keep the ecotards from getting upset.
As for missing arachnids, how many people are aboard the ISS? Was there a leg each?
Mine's the one with the slightly singed fragments of tools and a grease gun in the pockets...
Giving them the vote was bad enough, and then they get licenses to drive cars... and look at how badly that has gone.... and now they are playing auto-mechanic on a space station... doing the grease and oil change and they even fuck that up..... and lose the fucking tool kit.
(Lost that is - until someone cops a supersonic spanner in the head after a de-orbiting tool bag reappears)
Lose the tool kit - Lose the fucking tool kit.... Well excuse me, since your up in orbit - you'll just have to jump in your car and drive a half mile down the road to the auto shop and buy a new kit of SPACE RATED fucking tools....
(and they are going to be really - really - really good tools as well)
Arrgggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Aghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh She LOST the fucking tool kit.....
She LOST the TOOL KIT.... SHE LOST IT!!!!!!!!!!!!1
(should never have allowed them to graduate beyond beyond breeding, piloting the stove and pushing a tea trolley.... )
My girlfriend is constantly misplacing her handbag, but luckily her phone is usually inside it, all I have to do is phone it and we play hunt the ring tone. It's a shame that ring tones don't work in space.
And don't get me started on the movie potential of a female astronaut lubricating the Canadarm2
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