Do they carry out the drills in the proper way? With red lights flashing everywhere, a siren going off and a computerised voice instructing everyone to abandon ship?
ISS 'nauts take to the escape pods in Russian sat-prang debris peril
'Nauts crewing the International Space Station were forced to take to the escape capsules over the weekend, as a chunk of wreckage from a mysterious satellite collision in 2009 hurtled towards the orbiting outpost. Fortunately as it turned out the speeding fragment passed by more than 11km from the station. Normally the ISS …
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Monday 26th March 2012 10:37 GMT KrisM
don't forget the self destruct
No self respecting space faring ship/station has every been abandoned without a lengthy process to initiate self destruct, and then having an ominous computer countdown to annihilation as everyone scrambles to get off the ship/station. Usually results in an individual cancelling self destruct with seconds to go...
make for a nice firework display but probably would not help the debris field issue up there!
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Monday 26th March 2012 12:29 GMT BenR
Self-Destruct Voice: Thank you for pressing the self-destruct button. This ship will self-destruct in exactly two minutes and forty-five seconds.
President Skroob: You've got to stop it. Is there any way to stop it?
Colonel Sandurz: I can't - it's irreversible.
President Skroob: Like my raincoat!
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Self-Destruct Voice: Ten... nine... eight... six...
President Skroob: Six? What happened to seven?
Self-Destruct Voice: Just kidding!
President Skroob, Colonel Sandurz, Dark Helmet: [They growl in annoyance]
Self-Destruct Voice: [Skroob, Sandurz, and Helmet are mouthing the numbers alone with the recording] Six... five... four... three... two... one...
[they close their eyes and grimace]
Self-Destruct Voice: Have a nice day.
President Skroob, Colonel Sandurz, Dark Helmet: [open their eyes] Thank you.
[They close them again]
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Tuesday 27th March 2012 16:36 GMT Mike Flugennock
MOVIE SIGN....!
I vote for the computerized harbinger of doom from "Aliens"
"You now have eleven minutes to get to minimum safe distance"...
Actually, I always loved the sudden outbreak of chaos when the flashing lights and buzzer alarm sounded for "movie sign" aboard the ship on MST3K.
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