This is…well…unique.

by | Aug 10, 2014 | Journal | 6 comments

Citizens in Abandoned McDonalds Seize Control of Satellite

6 Comments

  2. CJ
    CJ on August 10, 2014 at 3:58 pm

    Now it works. double http happens sometimes when you use a ‘fill in blank’ editor. THanks!

  3. BlueCatShip
    BlueCatShip on August 10, 2014 at 4:23 pm

    That feels like the old, brief “Salvage One” TV show (Andy Griffith et al. build a rocket in a field and salvage space junk).

    Or an old Heinlein book or two. Have Spacesuit Will Travel, Rocketship Galileo, The Rolling Stones. (All good old books.)

    Heh. Rescue Satellite, Get Free Fries and a Shake? Such a deal!

    River: “My food is problematic!” (Said of an ice planet, some sort of ice cream ball on a stick and string….)

    ONe Martian Malt, Chocolate, please!

  4. paul
    paul on August 10, 2014 at 11:41 pm

    Is this the one I read about last month that NASA gave permission to resurrect? But as I recall they decided it wouldn’t work and had to be abandoned again.

  5. WOL
    WOL on August 11, 2014 at 1:30 am

    Article is dated 08/08 — but who knows when the events it relates actually happened? Still, cool if they succeeded. It talks about them macgyvering stuff to work with the satellite, which gives an aura of Richard Dean Anderson cool to the same skill set that used to be called (to use the politically correct versions of the terms) “Appalachian engineering,” “Yankee ingenuity,” “Southern engineering,” “cowboy engineering,” “Afro-American engineering” and other such terms which translate as “thinking outside the box because you can’t afford a box in the first place, and in the second place, if you have to be standing in a box before you can think, you’re in pretty sad shape if you ask me.”

  6. Tommie
    Tommie on August 11, 2014 at 10:56 am

    It makes me think of Forge of Heaven, and I don’t even know why.

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