Are you proficient at windscreen chip repairs, because there may be a good job if you can pull it off.
http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/theres-a-crack-in-a-window-on-the-international-space-station-tim-peake-highlights-the-terrifying-risk-of-space-debris/ar-BBt0ySb?li=BBoPOOl&ocid=UE07DHP (http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/theres-a-crack-in-a-window-on-the-international-space-station-tim-peake-highlights-the-terrifying-risk-of-space-debris/ar-BBt0ySb?li=BBoPOOl&ocid=UE07DHP)
And we thought stone chips were bad enough come MOT time.
I wonder what their excess is on windscreen repairs ?
a bit more than the £10 on my policy, I'd guess :smiley-laughing:
I wonder if they have heated screens like Fords? :hmmm:
Call for Sandra :censored: (changed by forum) :uneasy:
Quote from: Bealman on May 14, 2016, 10:17:31 AM
Call for Sandra :censored: (changed by forum) :uneasy:
Well at least you didn't say 'call for George', George :D
Sounds like quite a big impact in space terms.
To put this into context, one of the shuttles once hit a fleck of paint. The resulting penetration into the "windscreen" was a write-off and brought the shuttle back to earth early.
The physics at work here are mind-boggling. It's the speeds; that fleck of paint weight was insignificant, but because it was in orbit and therefore doing in excess of 17,000mph, it's kinetic energy is massive.
Yeah, it's really a case of the "Right Stuff" for those space folk!
Skyline2uk
Silly scientists
All these windows and no need for them
Stick cameras on the outside, job done
Quote from: mjkerr on May 14, 2016, 06:20:24 PM
Silly scientists
All these windows and no need for them
Stick cameras on the outside, job done
Going slightly off my original topic- don't you occasionally like to sit at a window and watch the world go by -but in their case literally
This was foretold a month or so ago when there was a
tv prog about space junk, millions of bits and pieces
orbiting the earth. Beam me down Scotty !
Quote from: Oldman on May 14, 2016, 06:27:07 PM
Going slightly off my original topic- don't you occasionally like to sit at a window and watch the world go by -but in their case literally
There is very little risk here on Earth
Hurtling along at speed is vastly more risky
I would rather be protected and watching a TV screen
Plenty of glass up on the ISS - the cupola alone has 7 windows!
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/716263main_iss028e048571_226.jpg (http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/716263main_iss028e048571_226.jpg)
Love the way that an increase in tech gets a "job done".i.e. windows to cameras. Yet I bet the same response has been made in reverse. "stupid scientists, using a camera when a window would do!".
If I were up there I would want the the panoramic and not the pessimistic view.