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Probably someone putting some IKEA shelving together for their CD collection and missed the stud to hold it to the wall...
The stupidity of this claim is astonishing. Pretty sure if you mess with one part and it blows theres over 90% chance the rest of the station will go with it. Plus the cameras are on 24/7.
However, the nutter in me thinks they could be doing some kind of crazy stuff (was told off by a mod for using &^/ in bad words) we don't know about and there might actually be some conflict between them all.
I bet it was Alex Salmond...
who knows what is going on up there
I bet they are worried about ISSrexit...
One ping, from Mr Vassili, will find the answer...
Pretty sure if you mess with one part and it blows theres over 90% chance the rest of the station will go with it.
Not really no. It's just a small hole. They didn't even bother to wake the astronauts when it was discovered. It doesn't work like the movies - it just causes the station to vent a bit of gas, not implode or suck everyone out.
Plus the cameras are on 24/7.
The hole is in one of the attached Soyuz modules. I believe the thinking is that it could have happened during manufacturing and been improperly fixed.
What does it matter?
It's all done in a back lot at a California film studio.
Makes you think...
Hmmm, looking at the pic in the Guardian article it does kind of look like someone's drilled a hole from the inside after it's been painted from the marks around it.
Maybe my first instinct of the Russians being usual levels of crazy was incorrect.
Not really no. It’s just a small hole. They didn’t even bother to wake the astronauts when it was discovered. It doesn’t work like the movies – it just causes the station to vent a bit of gas, not implode or suck everyone out.
If that part of the ISS blows it'll likely take most of the station with it. The point is, if it's sabotage then damaging the station at all would likely lead to suicide.
But my point is that it won't "blow".
Inflate your tyre to 30psi and put a 2mm hole in it. It doesn't go "BANG!" it goes "fsssssssssssssssss"
And the Space Station's only at 14psi
Yep. Standard atmosphere ~14.7 psi with a (near) vacuum outside.
So roughly equivalent to a 30 psi tyre with ~14.7psi outside.
This is what happens when you faff about with tubeless.
The Russians used to have a huge stockpile of Stans.
Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan.......
Do they expect it to be muddy so have lower the pressure? Is that why the spacewalk stuff is so slow - they are actually dragging themselves throw a sort of wet mud effect atmosphere?
It appeals to the mountain bike bodger in me that they essentially fixed it with duct tape. 🙂
Perchy strikes again!
Ma gawd that Perchy's so sharp his wit may have well caused the hole.
Perchy that was just majestic 😂
Can someone please fire up the photoshoppery?
Jamie, Jamie ,Jamie.
Perchy for DM Editor...
About the same time that Servalan died...
Makes you think .....
Not the first time that holes have been found-
“I have conducted investigations of all kinds of spacecraft, and after landing, we discovered a hole drilled completely through the hull of a re-entry module," the former Energia employee, Viktor Minenko, said in Gazeta.RU. "But the technician didn't report the defect to anyone but sealed up the hole with epoxy. We found the person, and after a commotion he was terminated,” said Minenko.
Having watched too many James Bond films, my concern is with the exact meaning of the word “terminated”...
