I do hope the boffins in charge of this have had the good sense to get it to play "Blue Danube" when it goes though it's autodocking sequence.

sounds like ABORT, RETRY, FAIL to me.. :P

mine's the one with a space helmet

Looks like they're still running it on DOS.

no CTRL-ALT-DEL?

cargo vessel rams you!

Mine's the MIR flight jacket with "ramming speed" written on the back.

Surely its ABORT, RETRY or CANCEL?

or if you go back far enough REDO FROM START?

(Why Paris? Coz she wouldn't have a clue :o)

Looks like an X-wing in that picture. Maybe in a few years, they'll add FLY_INTO_EXHAUST_TUNNEL_AND_BLOW_UP_DEATH_STAR_FOLLOWED_BY_EXCITING_ESCAPE_SCENE?

Mine's the big furry one that goes BWEEEEEEERH. Wait, that's not a coat...

Look at that font... 8x8 pixel char grid all in caps...

Where's the truetype fonts with anti-aliasing, I thought the USA was supposed to be advanced?!

It's the big white one with the jetpack on the back.

+++ OUT OF CHEESE ERROR +++

...man thisth ith thuper!

There was a STOP command, but the dev team removed them due to some errors:

*** STOP: 0x0000000A (0x0A1F0008, 0x00000002, 0x00000000, 0x804E524D) ATV_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

Rumors have it that they upgraded to a newer version.

HOLD RETREAT ESCAPE ABORT, but no button to tell it to f***ing dock.

@ Underwood

no, "Missed truck!", as in, "our supplies didn't get here", and "we're out of air/water/[other non-optional stuff], so off to the escape pod".

@ Evans

sorry, the US spent all the money "spreading" democracy (or manure? or maybe death and destruction?), not enough left to fund the space program adequately, and Russia is still recovering from US democracy-spreading efforts in the 90s.

@ Rackham

it is the Russian way: if you don't succeed at first, try, try again. the capsules got there, didn't they? sheesh, everybody's a critic...

Stage computer on-line

Standing by for Sun Dive...

I shall be terribly disappointed if there isn't a YouTube video with the proper music.

Who cares in the Americans don't get it?

(Yes, that is a Clavius Base shoulder patch...)

"sorry, the US spent all the money "spreading" democracy (or manure? or maybe death and destruction?), not enough left to fund the space program adequately"

As evidenced by the LAMEZ0RZ fonts, clearly the US cannot fund it's space program.

Apparently all the money went to some thing called Cassini, some lamez0rz mars rovers, a bunch of so-called satellites, a mission to pluto, and building a so called "space station".

But since the fonts are soooo lamez0rz, clearly they can't do ANYTHING!!! Stupid 'merkins.

As for Russia, I'd say it was the US's democracy spreading efforts combined with the fact that just about everyone was sick of Russia's shit. And everyone is STILL sick of Russia's shit, or so is the impression I get living in Poland.

Apparently the Americans spent millions of dollars developing a pen that would write in zero gravity.

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The Russians used pencils

I have been to the NASA goodies shop and have my very own zero-G biro (with a spare refill). It surprises some people that a normal biro won't write (for long) on a vertical or inverted horizontal surface. The zero-G pen will, since it has a built-in micro-pump for the ink. Mind you, I cannot recall any occasion in the last 20 years when I absolutely had to write on a surface that wasn't roughly horizontal, but I suppose it's a good present for the man who has everything.

Now, the Russian "pencil" was not only a well-designed clutch pencil (no sharpener required, Colin) but it had a slide-rule attached in case the on-board computer went down. I *really* want one of those! Where can I get one?