I bet the builders of the satellite had fun.

Send it up into space, set its orbital path to travel over their place of work.
Once the track was known, all of the employees go running outside, look up at the sky and then make rude gestures as it passes over taking pictures.

Once the pictures come back, have a massive laugh at the results !

Priceless !

ok so maybe that did not happen, but that is the sort of sick humour I would have had it do if I worked on it.

Awesome Thread.

S & F. Cant believe they had 60 miles of film they used to drop off and catch in midair LOL.

Now that is a world without Wifi, 4G, LTE , internet... Wow ;-P

There was a complete write-up with a ton of information that has been removed within the past 12hours (An all too common theme here of late) none-the-less it is a most interesting piece of kit with something like 60km's of film parachuted to earth and many other macguyver like ingenuities. The implications of this technology have not sunk in for over 50 years still we sit around like monkeys gushing in awe.

Originally posted by usernamehere
There was a complete write-up with a ton of information that has been removed within the past 12hours (An all too common theme here of late) none-the-less it is a most interesting piece of kit with something like 60km's of film parachuted to earth and many other macguyver like ingenuities. The implications of this technology have not sunk in for over 50 years still we sit around like monkeys gushing in awe.

Yeah.....that thread that was removed was mine. I worked my butt off to make that an informative thread on this topic. The thread had been flagged 8 times and recieved that many stars or more in the 4-5 hours that I slept. I began posting some more information this morning, and then recieved a message saying the thread had been moved to the "thrash bin forum"

How is a thread being flagged and starred that much deserving of the trash bin? It was not a duplicate thread, it was new information being released. Apparently, I must have posted too much information and not enough opinion, even though I did post my personal observation several times.

Originally posted by isyeye

Originally posted by usernamehere
There was a complete write-up with a ton of information that has been removed within the past 12hours (An all too common theme here of late) none-the-less it is a most interesting piece of kit with something like 60km's of film parachuted to earth and many other macguyver like ingenuities. The implications of this technology have not sunk in for over 50 years still we sit around like monkeys gushing in awe.

Yeah.....that thread that was removed was mine. I worked my butt off to make that an informative thread on this topic. The thread had been flagged 8 times and recieved that may stars or more in the 4-5 hours that I slept. I began posting some more information this morning, and then recieved a message saying the thread had been moved to the "thrash bin forum"

How is a thread being flagged and starred that much deserving of the trash bin? It was not a duplicate thread, it was new information being released. Apparently, I must have posted too much information and not enough opinion, even though I did post my personal observation several times.

edit on 30-12-2011 by isyeye because: (no reason given)

Second.

It clearly contained much more information and personal opinion than any of the other threads on the subject, most of which are yet to be doctored... I mean moderated.