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themadhippy:
From very early in my carer i was taught,when working at height to always ensure a dropped tool cant escape,at best your gonna need to climb down to retrieve it,at worst your gonna be retrieving it from someone's head/something very expensive,pity nasa staff didnt get the same training.
--- Quote ---Somewhere hurtling more than 200 miles above the planet's surface is one of Earth's newest satellites: a tool bag, and it's possible you might be able to spot it with a telescope or good pair of binoculars if you know where to look.
The white, satchel-like tool bag slipped away from two astronauts during a rare, all-female spacewalk Nov. 1 as they performed maintenance on the International Space Station, according to social media posts on X (formerly Twitter) from scientists and other experts familiar with the situation.While there's no official word whether the tool bag contained a 10 mm socket wrench, the bag was spotted floating over Mount Fuji last week by Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa. Now space junk, it has since been catalogued with the ID: 58229 / 1998-067WC.
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xrunner:
CatalinaWOW:
--- Quote from: themadhippy on November 12, 2023, 03:16:02 pm ---From very early in my carer i was taught,when working at height to always ensure a dropped tool cant escape,at best your gonna need to climb down to retrieve it,at worst your gonna be retrieving it from someone's head/something very expensive,pity nasa staff didnt get the same training.
--- Quote ---Somewhere hurtling more than 200 miles above the planet's surface is one of Earth's newest satellites: a tool bag, and it's possible you might be able to spot it with a telescope or good pair of binoculars if you know where to look.
The white, satchel-like tool bag slipped away from two astronauts during a rare, all-female spacewalk Nov. 1 as they performed maintenance on the International Space Station, according to social media posts on X (formerly Twitter) from scientists and other experts familiar with the situation.While there's no official word whether the tool bag contained a 10 mm socket wrench, the bag was spotted floating over Mount Fuji last week by Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa. Now space junk, it has since been catalogued with the ID: 58229 / 1998-067WC.
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They probably received many more hours of training than you have. And probably more incentive. It is a LONG climb down. But they work in a really tough environment with lots of things to pay attention to. We can probably just count our blessings in the fact that none of the extravehicular errors to date have killed anyone. They have come close at least twice that I am aware of.
TimFox:
There are many accounts of wrenches, etc., dropped down boreholes at oil rigs that had to be retrieved (at very high cost) to use the borehole.
One story I remember is that management had a wrench gold-plated and framed to illustrate the retrieval cost.
Another article: https://www.mrt.com/business/energy/article/Rookie-sent-packing-after-silence-costs-company-7435664.php
Bud:
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