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Yes it's a bit light on details. But they do point out the most important facts, namely what gender the astronauts are and that it has not been officially confi
by sieste 3y ago
Yes it's a bit light on details. But they do point out the most important facts, namely what gender the astronauts are and that it has not been officially confirmed whether the tool box contained a 10mm wrench. Personally, that's everything I needed to know about the situation.
- wredue 3y agoImagine being upset by the mere mention of a persons gender. Christ you people are insufferable. Surely there are actually important things to be angry about.
- hotpotamus 3y agoIf you've ever worked on a modern car, you'd know the importance of the 10mm wrench. Maybe they had some Toyota guys consult on the ISS.
- sundvor 3y agoContext, possibly: https://youtu.be/2jlxO6s5N6Q?si=7iled4EV7nWWyb-A https://youtu.be/2jlxO6s5N6Q?si=7iled4EV7nWWyb-A
- hotpotamus 3y agoHadn't seen that one, but it is a bit of a meme. I'm not joking about working on cars though - my 2001 Toyota Corolla was full of 10mm bolts, and I have on occasion needed to pick one up from the hardware store only to find an empty spot between the 9mm and 11mm sockets.
- jtriangle 3y agoHonda dirtbikes were almost exclusively 10mm, which was handy, because you can carry a very limited set of tools/parts and fix basically everything aside from running out of gas.
- I_Am_Nous 3y agoI love 10mm wrenches so much I bought a Japanese motorcycle :P I do so much better with whole numbers than fractions.
- Smoosh 3y agoAs well as the 10mm wrench, you may find it useful to have a 1cm spanner.
- Phrenzy 3y agoOr a metric Crescent wrench.
- shaftway 3y agoI know this is really tangential, but one of my favorite lines from cartoons as a kid was from an episode of Pinky and the Brain and it included this kind of wordplay. Their plan included forming a grunge band, which they called "Frog the Dry Widget" (a play on Toad the Wet Sproket).
- MrPatan 3y agoDoes it contain a drill?
- kube-system 3y agoThe 10mm reference is a meme. It is the most common size when working on a vehicle and is frequently misplaced. Although it's kind of strange to see that type of writing in USA Today... I thought I was reading Jalopnik or something.
- dclowd9901 3y agoNot strange at all. USA Today has always been basic news writing for basic people.
- e-clinton 3y agoAnna Delvey… is that you?
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- brandall10 3y agoYou forgot that what they dropped resembled a white satchel.
- neilv 3y agoBoth those and something else jumped out at me, for different reasons. I remember this story from newsprint days: https://fair.org/home/al-neuharths-front-page-sexism/ https://fair.org/home/al-neuharths-front-page-sexism/
- eggy 3y agoAn all-female space walk and the last time a toolbag was lost it was a woman...just saying...really plays into stereotypes of women around tools. But it was reported the male astronauts couldn't find a can opener in the kitchen drawer so even stevens!
- jtriangle 3y agoI swear, the can opener has some kind of Y chromosome activated cloaking device.
- protomolecule 3y agoAnd the time before that [0]. That doesn't matter much though, the orbit is low and the tools will burn in the atmosphere quite soon. [0] https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-astronauts-lost-items-in-space-dropped-bag-2023-11 https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-astronauts-lost-items-i...
- K0balt 3y agoJust need to use a Hermes berkin 35 for the toolbag and it will never be misplaced.
- kazinator 3y agoWas the wrench for conventional or opposite-threaded 10 mm nuts?