Anyone work for Autoglass or similar

[Oldman]

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

And we thought stone chips were bad enough come MOT time.

[guest311]

I wonder what their excess is on windscreen repairs ?
a bit more than the £10 on my policy, I'd guess 

[Newportnobby]

I wonder if they have heated screens like Fords?

[Bealman]

Call for Sandra (changed by forum) 

[Newportnobby]

Call for Sandra (changed by forum) 

Well at least you didn't say 'call for George', George

[Skyline2uk]

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

[MJKERR]

Silly scientists
All these windows and no need for them
Stick cameras on the outside, job done

[Oldman]

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

[Agrippa]

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 !

[MJKERR]

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

[Bealman]

Plenty of glass up on the ISS - the cupola alone has 7 windows!
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/716263main_iss028e048571_226.jpg

[slippyshome]

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.