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[QUOTE]An Olympic torch took a first-ever spacewalk Saturday, carefully held by two Russian cosmonauts outside the International Space Station as it orbited some 420 kilometres above Earth.
Video streamed by NASA showed Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazanskiy carrying the unlit torch of the Sochi games, which bobbed weightlessly at the end of a tether in a darkness dotted by stars.
The two gingerly maneuvered to take photos of the torch against the background of the planet, the orb's edge glowing with sunrise.
After two hours, they returned it to the space station before continuing with other tasks on a spacewalk that was to last about six hours, including attaching a footrest and a camera platform to the exterior of the orbiting laboratory.
The torch was launched into space from the Russian-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday morning. It will return to Earth with a three-man crew on Monday.
The torch will not burn aboard the space outpost because lighting it would consume precious oxygen and pose a threat to the crew.
The Olympic torch was taken aboard the U.S. space shuttle Atlantis in 1996 for the Atlanta Summer Olympics, but this is the first it time it has been taken outside a spacecraft.
The Sochi Olympic flame started its relay on Oct. 7, four months ahead of the Winter Games, and it is to cover some 65,000 kilometres. Most of the time the flame will be safely encased in a lantern.
On Saturday, the flame was somewhere nearly as cold and remote as the torch's temporary residence in outer space — the Siberian city of Yakutsk.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympic-torch-gets-spacewalk-ahead-of-sochi-games-1.2421058[/url]
The quality in that photo tho
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[QUOTE=BandClassHAH;42813024]The quality in that photo tho
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[video=youtube;4MrnqEf3i-U]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MrnqEf3i-U[/video]
that would suck to be the guy that lets go of it
"whoops"
[QUOTE=BandClassHAH;42813024]The quality in that photo tho
[t]http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2013/11/olympic-torch-spacewalk-cosmonaut.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
We're in the 21st century and we're still using cameras in space that rival that of a $5 ebay webcam.
[QUOTE=pentium;42813060]We're in the 21st century and we're still using cameras in space that rival that of a $5 ebay webcam.[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/hubble-space-telescope-001.jpg[/IMG]
Try $2,500,000,000.
[QUOTE=Fish Muffin;42813058]that would suck to be the guy that lets go of it
"whoops"[/QUOTE]well someone 'dropping' the olympic torch in space and then it burning up in our planet's atmosphere would still be pretty historical, that doesn't happen often
[QUOTE=Grabigel;42813088][IMG]http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/hubble-space-telescope-001.jpg[/IMG]
Try $2,500,000,000.[/QUOTE]
...the rival of a $2,500,000,000 ebay webcam?
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[QUOTE=Grabigel;42813088][IMG]http://d1jqu7g1y74ds1.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/hubble-space-telescope-001.jpg[/IMG]
Try $2,500,000,000.[/QUOTE]
phss, Hubble's old now, try the James Webb telescope
whenever it gets up there it'll cost several billion
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[QUOTE=FezianEmperor;42813229]This publicity stunt is so dumb.[/QUOTE]
space is cool and I don't mind seeing more of it
[QUOTE=FezianEmperor;42813229]This publicity stunt is so dumb.[/QUOTE]
I guess the torch relay is dumb too?
[QUOTE=laserguided;42813250]I guess the torch relay is dumb too?[/QUOTE]
Yes, indeed.
[QUOTE=FezianEmperor;42813229]This publicity stunt is so dumb.[/QUOTE]Please explain why.
[QUOTE=Redswandir;42813239]phss, Hubble's old now, try the James Webb telescope
whenever it gets up there it'll cost several billion
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space is cool and I don't mind seeing more of it[/QUOTE]
the funny thing about hubble
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_Kennan[/url]
we built like over a dozen of them.... only one useful for actual science though....
think of the science that could have been done....
also why does the torch look like some futuristic ultra urganomic piece of crap... just put a couple handles or loops on it, and make it look like a torch.
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hubble is a bit bigger than the its spy-sat cousins but the difference is superficial because they used more lenses than hubble and had better scanning
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[QUOTE=FezianEmperor;42813494]Space. we're in space, woo space. Look a torch in space. Wow, it's in space. Now let's relay it to eachother in space. You get the idea?[/QUOTE]
are you trying to imply that space is not the raddest thing ever
[QUOTE=FezianEmperor;42813494]Space. we're in space, woo space. Look a torch in space. Wow, it's in space. Now let's relay it to eachother in space. You get the idea?[/QUOTE]
I get the idea that you're a bit of a git.
It's cool that they took a torch into space. Pretty simple.
[QUOTE=FezianEmperor;42813494]Space. we're in space, woo space. Look a torch in space. Wow, it's in space. Now let's relay it to eachother in space. You get the idea?[/QUOTE]
And how many times have you been in space? Oh, right, totally forgot, you have your own personal rocket in your barn huh? A motherfucking rocketeer you sure are, huh mate?
[QUOTE=FezianEmperor;42813494]Space. we're in space, woo space. Look a torch in space. Wow, it's in space. Now let's relay it to eachother in space. You get the idea?[/QUOTE]
no
i don't
This was amazing. Love seeing history in making.
[QUOTE=FezianEmperor;42813494]Space. we're in space, woo space. Look a torch in space. Wow, it's in space. Now let's relay it to eachother in space. You get the idea?[/QUOTE]For a ceremony that stretches all the way back to ancient Greece during a time when they would look up into space and could only imagine what it must be like up there, carrying the torch all the way up into space is actually a pretty big deal, sorry if you're too jaded about space now to realize this.
I'm picturing a guy trying to work on the exterior of the ISS, and the torch keeps bouncing around on a tether and getting in the way.
"Ugh, fuck off Olympic torch, I'm trying to work!"
"Symbol of partnership and friendship" Yeah, okay.
This is a pretty big deal, though. No other Olympic torch has ever traveled so far to reach its target.
I mean think about it, it's fucking [I]space[/I], that's just awesome.
[QUOTE=Fish Muffin;42813058]that would suck to be the guy that lets go of it
"whoops"[/QUOTE]
More like best handing of the torch ever.
He lets go and it zooms towards earth and a guy catches it and carry's on.
[sp] Yes I know it's impossible but a man can dream. [/sp]
[QUOTE=Keyblockor1;42816726]More like best handing of the torch ever.
He lets go and it zooms towards earth and a guy catches it and carry's on.
[sp] Yes I know it's impossible but a man can dream. [/sp][/QUOTE]
The flame getting lit by the heat of reentry.
[QUOTE=Keyblockor1;42816726]More like best handing of the torch ever.
He lets go and it zooms towards earth and a guy catches it and carry's on.
[sp] Yes I know it's impossible but a man can dream. [/sp][/QUOTE]
Add a tether and in post processing you edit it out.
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