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Old 06-06-2008, 11:33 PM   #1
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June 7, 2008: Flying Bricks

You may or may not have seen the news story , about the June 2nd launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery, doing "unprecedented damage" to the launch pad.

This picture was supposedly taken by an amateur photographer/tourist, but it looks like it was taken from a position a lot closer than they allow tourists, to me.

Anyway, it clearly shows the debris (pieces of brick and concrete), from the flame trench, raining down on the water.


photo credit ~ Ben Cooper/Spaceflight Now
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Old 06-07-2008, 12:02 AM   #2
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thats why people arent allowed near there. isnt that why?
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Old 06-07-2008, 12:11 AM   #3
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That's not a normal occurrence. People aren't allowed closer in case the sumbitch blows up on the pad.
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If bricks could fly . . .

. . . they'd be brickbats.
Must be the site's June theme.
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Old 06-07-2008, 02:22 AM   #5
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Recipe for cauliflower cheese anyone?
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Old 06-07-2008, 04:32 AM   #6
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This picture was supposedly taken by an amateur photographer/tourist, but it looks like it was taken from a position a lot closer than they allow tourists, to me.
Telephoto lens?
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Old 06-07-2008, 05:10 AM   #7
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Telephoto lens?
Your standard 2,000,000,000,000mm lens.
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Old 06-07-2008, 06:29 AM   #8
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I wonder if they'll think to finance the repairs by selling the bricks on eBay.
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Old 06-07-2008, 09:27 AM   #9
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I wonder if they'll think to finance the repairs by selling the bricks on eBay.
That actually would work. But the government is not really allowed to do that. You people out there would buy them.
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Old 06-07-2008, 10:44 AM   #10
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Why aren't they allowed to do that? Government surplus auction.
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Old 06-07-2008, 10:49 AM   #11
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I saw an Authentic Piece of the Berlin Wall in a small box at a garage sale recently. Tempted but resisted. For all I know, it was actually one of the concrete kibbles from the NASA photo.
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Old 06-07-2008, 11:43 AM   #12
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Telephoto lens?
Probably, but not terribly long, there is not so much compression of the image as you'd expect w/ a telephoto.

Boat?
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Old 06-07-2008, 12:30 PM   #13
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That could be, if the pads are those circles out near the open water.
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Old 06-07-2008, 01:49 PM   #14
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Damn, Bruce gets all the best classified photos!

Alternate caption for the thread pic:
"You deserve a brick today."
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Old 06-07-2008, 02:18 PM   #15
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What's that? Looks like the bricks hit an endangered manatee...
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