Bag of Space Tools visible from Earth

[Rudy]

Anyone have a telescope or binoculars? According to NBC Nightly News, if you do, you can go outside tonight and see the bag of tools (You have to know where to look though, and you have to be away from light).

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,457344,00.html

 

[liquidcherry]

Could be a very good way for a company who deals with tools or sells tools to make a commercial....

Cheers

frank

 

[GF]

:lol:

Wait, I shouldn't be laughing - that's $100,000 in our US tax dollars floating away

 

[liquidcherry]

:lol:

Wait, I shouldn't be laughing - that's $100,000 in our US tax dollars floating away

Who the fudge would pay 100k for a bag of tools?????? (you sound like a CEO of AIG!), LOL

Cheers

Frank

 

[firefly]

Can't wait for that sucker to re-enter orbit...lol...especially if it doesn't all burn on re-entry.

$100,000 is the number quoted in the article Frank

 

[liquidcherry]

Can't wait for that sucker to re-enter orbit...lol...especially if it doesn't all burn on re-entry.

$100,000 is the number quoted in the article Frank

First of all, if it is not being burned completely it will be some valuable memorability....

And...what is a wrench, a Phillips screwdriver, a hammer worth....100k???? i dont't think so....LOL

Cheers

Frank

 

[firefly]

When you consider that 25 million has gone into the research of the thermal tiles that go on the shuttle...whats a $100,000

http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/shuttle_tps_030307.html

BTW...each tile costs $200,000 and takes a year to make. The shuttles themselves cost 2 Billion....like I said...what's $100,000 on a tool kit?

http://www.rockcitynews.com/pages/california/spaceshuttle.html

 

[Meongtae]

yeah, those screwdrivers and such are perfect. they are real expensive. even tools used for aircraft are pricey. and yeah, a few thousand each is not unusual.

not to mention the specialty tools...those are insane expensive,

 

[GILSAN]

Why not send the CEO's and goverment personalities that created this finacial mess into space, to try and retrieve the tools, and then just forget about them for a few years, before bringing them back to earth. The world would be forever gratefull.

 

[mis_chiff]

After all these years, who'da thunk it
Chicken Little was right - the sky IS falling :lol:

 

[Chef Patrick]

$100k, that should be coming out of the astronauts paycheck

 

[johname]

Good luck with a pair of bincoulars looking up in the sky trying to find a bag of tools lol. These people that can see it are amature astromoners that know where to look and how a speck of light oribiting moves.