Canadarm Kinesthesia

McSpew writes: "Astronauts on the International Space Station accidentally banged the space station's $600 million robot arm into the side of the station. No damage was done, but engineers still haven't figured out just what's wrong with the arm."

Damn...

[return 42]

...I knew we shouldn't have let that guy Strangelove design the arm!

Accident Report

[Sygiinu]

The arm collided with a stationary space station coming the other way.

Allision

[geoswan]

The arm collided with a stationary space station coming the other way.

If an object is stationary, then striking it is not a "collision" it is an "allision". I think that space _stations_ are, by definition, stationary 8-).

Re:Allision

[Rytsarsky]

I think Space Stations, by laws of physics, orbit. ISS's orbit is ~90 minutes.