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anna-banana
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25 Nov 2008, 3:49 pm

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Amateur astronomers are monitoring a shiny tool bag that has been orbiting Earth ever since it was dropped last week by an astronaut during a spacewalk outside the international space station.

Veteran spacewalker Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper, a member of the shuttle Endeavour's visiting crew, lost her grip on the backpack-sized bag on Nov. 18. At the time, she was cleaning up a mess from a leaking grease gun she was carrying to help mop up metal grit from inside a massive gear that turns the space station's starboard solar wings.

The tool bag cost $100,000. and its loss meant astronauts had to share the remaining tool bag for subsequent spacewalks.

After sunset on Saturday, Edward Light, using 10 x 50 binoculars, spotted the bag in space while he scanned the sky from his backyard in Lakewood, N.J., Spaceweather.com reported. On the same night, Keven Fetter of Brockville, Ontario, video-recorded the bag as it passed by the star Eta Pisces in the constellation Pisces.

More bag-viewing opportunities are expected.

The tool bag can be seen through binoculars, a few minutes ahead of the space station's orbit. The satellite tracker predicts that the bag will be visible from Europe and western North America during a series of passes this week. By late next week, the tool bag should appear in the evening skies over most of North America.

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is it a bird? is it a plane? no, it's a toolbag!

I know what I'll be doing this evening...

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25 Nov 2008, 4:30 pm

Wow...thats just....wow
a $100,000 toolbag orbiting earth

""On the same night, Keven Fetter of Brockville, Ontario,
video-recorded the bag as it passed by the star Eta Pisces
in the constellation Pisces.""

:lol: that just sounds so weird

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25 Nov 2008, 4:44 pm

MIIIINNNEEEE!! !! I'm taking it :twisted: Stick it on eBay

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25 Nov 2008, 7:37 pm

lol, i can't beleive there's a toolbag floating around, too funny

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26 Nov 2008, 10:21 am

it's going to be visible over Europe in 2 hours people!

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26 Nov 2008, 10:29 am

^
What?
*gets binoculars*

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26 Nov 2008, 9:35 pm

wish mine was that easy to find...

Eventually, it will fall from orbit, and hit a young woman who will die, but become undead, then go around with a bunch of other strange undead people, helping the newly dead to get to wherever they're going...oh, wait, that's Dead like Me...

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26 Nov 2008, 10:14 pm

Oh lol. I thought you were using that as an insult...tool bag.

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27 Nov 2008, 12:30 am

Here's a link to those of you who would like to see it

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,457344,00.html

Edit:
Here's the very shot but satisfying video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THSAGJpsoiI

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27 Nov 2008, 12:58 am

There are many things orbiting the earth, along with the tool bag. How about all the human waste that they release into orbit. Picture if that came out of orbit.
"Oh shi*! ! here comes a pile of it!! Run..............SPLAT!! !
EEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWW!! !!

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27 Nov 2008, 5:35 pm

That's what happends when you let a woman work in space!

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27 Nov 2008, 11:32 pm

Lonermutant wrote:

That's what happends when you let a woman work in space!

ANYONE could have done this. If it were me though, I probably would of lost it because I couldn't remember where I put it. Next thing I would notice is my bag floating off out into outer space.

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28 Nov 2008, 1:19 am

FrogGirl wrote:

Lonermutant wrote:

That's what happends when you let a woman work in space!

ANYONE could have done this. If it were me though, I probably would of lost it because I couldn't remember where I put it. Next thing I would notice is my bag floating off out into outer space.

Irony...

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28 Nov 2008, 5:02 am

Lonermutant wrote:

That's what happends when you let a woman work in space!

Thats not very nice.

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28 Nov 2008, 7:24 am

ShadesOfMe wrote:

Lonermutant wrote:

That's what happends when you let a woman work in space!

Thats not very nice.

As I said: IRONY!!

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28 Nov 2008, 7:43 am

Hopefully human waste would be burned as it enters the atmosphere ....

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