Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Saturday, October 31, 2009

Supplies in Space

A Russian "Progress" supply ship approaches the ISS.


Found here.
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6 comments:

Sarah said...

Knock knock. Who's there? It's HAL, bringing garlic and apples.

Pretty amazing that it's unmanned, and trusted to dock at the ISS.

10/31/2009 10:04 AM
SkinnyDennis said...

Unmanned? The flight 188 pilots are looking for work I hear...

10/31/2009 12:07 PM
Comrade Misfit said...

Sarah, the Soviets/Russians have flown well over a hundred Progress cargo craft to space stations for over 30 years, now. It is a proven design. The ESA is now doing the same thing with their ATV program.

10/31/2009 3:43 PM
SkinnyDennis said...

Although they did have their share of problems with Progress and Mir.
http://www.history.nasa.gov/SP-4225/multimedia/progress-collision.htm

10/31/2009 7:22 PM
Sarah said...

The Progress collided with a solar array on the Spektr module. Then, the spacecraft hit Spektr itself, punched a hole in a solar panel ...

Yeah, Dennis. You might say that "objects in Mir are closer than they appear".

This incident is why I was a little surprised to hear a few years ago that Progress was making visits to the ISS.

11/01/2009 12:21 AM
SkinnyDennis said...

Sarah
As I recall, a Soviet satellite country (Georgia?) had been building the Progress on board docking computer. After the fall of the Empire, the docking computers were getting to be a problem procuring; the 1st solution was to have a cosmonaut remotely pilot it in, with not so good results. No longer a problem.

11/01/2009 1:43 AM

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