Satellite Debris Forces ISS Crew Into Rescue Craft

Muad'Dave writes "CNN is reporting that the crew of the International Space Station was forced to take refuge from a possible collision of the ISS with a piece of space debris Thursday. From the article: 'Floating debris from a satellite forced the crew of the international space station to retreat to a safety capsule Thursday, according to a NASA news release. .. The debris was too close for the space station to move out of the way, so the station's three crew members were temporarily evacuated to a the station's Soyuz TMA-13 capsule, NASA said.'" Update: 03/12 18:42 GMT by T : The original story incorrectly said the ISS had 18 crew members. Luckily for the three in the Soyuz, that was a mistake.

Lasers

[Anonymous Coward]

This is just another reason to invest in laser defenses. Preferably sharks with fricken' lasers on their heads.

Nice reporting

[sunking2]

18 crew memebers? Are they shooting a Girls Gone Wild video up there or something?

Re:Lasers

[oodaloop]

Why didn't they just reverse the polarity on the shields? Do I have to think of everything myself?

TMA-13?

[Tibor the Hun]

WTF? Are they hauling them back from Jupiter now?

Re:Lasers

[inerlogic]

can't run the shields and the transporter at the same time.....

deflector dish must've been tied up by those assholes in stellar cartography.....

they're always tyin that MFin deflector dish up.....

So androids don't count, huh?

[StefanJ]

Bigot! Someday we will rise up against our . . . uh, oh, never mind. Human here. Not an escaped replicant.

In other news

[djupedal]

.... slashdope editors were hit in the head with falling space debris today, further complicating their inability to detect sloppy facts.

This has not impacted their availability and readers are cautioned to continue questioning anything masquerading as fact.

Re:Lasers

[Deag]

well they probably still have that golf club for the publicity stunt a while back, so they should send one guy out on space walk and have him start swinging.

Re:Nice reporting

[Shakrai]

I'd bittorrent that.

Fixed that for you

Re:Nice reporting

[Anonymous Coward]

... for a dollar.

Re:This is starting to get silly...

[geekoid]

Just say who ever pays the biggest portion gets to put weapons in space~

Re:Lasers

[dkleinsc]

An excellent plan, sir, with just 2 major drawbacks: (1) We don't have any shields, and (2) we don't have a any shields. I realize this is technically just one drawback, but I thought it was so important it was worth mentioning twice.

Re:Lasers

[mrdoogee]

Yeah, a hockey stick would work much better.

Re:Lasers

[Plunky]

Gee, imagine if every time something was a teensy bit difficult we didn't even try..

Re:In other news

[Sleepy]

... There goes your ability to EVER moderate posts again... ;-)

Re:Nice reporting

[Em Emalb]

You're right. And I for one am beginning to question how they got 213 midgets and a donkey in the space station.

Re:Lasers

[Ced_Ex]

The deflector dish was jammed... strawberry flavour I think.

Re:Lasers

[Gilmoure]

No, I'm home sick today.

Re:Debris Details

[Anonymous Coward]

This report was clearly fabricated to conceal the fact that it was actually the size and shape of an astronaut's tool bag...