Poor little Bat...

SteamWake · 03-18-09, 12:17 PM

Bat inadvertantly hitches ride on shuttle lift off...

Poor thing, someone call PETA !

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509666,00.html

fatty · 03-18-09, 12:43 PM

Godspeed little bat.

A Very Super Market · 03-18-09, 12:49 PM

WHAT! A bat died because of the space program???

BURN EVERYTHING NASA HAS AND OUST THE PRESIDENT! TURN INTO AN ABSOLUTE MONARCHY WITH A COW AS OUR KING

Digital_Trucker · 03-18-09, 02:20 PM

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This isn't the first time a bat has attempted to travel into space. Another bat was seen clinging to the side of the external tank attached to the shuttle Endeavour on its STS-72 flight in 1996. .........

Coincidentally, an astronaut aboard that flight, Koichi Wakata of Japan, also flew on Discovery this week, making him the first spaceflyer to share two rides with bats.

This guy must wear some funky after-shave or something

August · 03-18-09, 02:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

This guy must wear some funky after-shave or something

Task Force · 03-18-09, 02:33 PM

I guess he wanted to get to space realy bad... hitched a free ride... and forgot space is a vaccuum.

(and we know what happens to animals that go into the vaccuum of space.)

AVGWarhawk · 03-18-09, 02:36 PM

Christ, what did Bush do now

Oberon · 03-18-09, 04:25 PM

Surely NASA should know by now that the animals you take into space to monitor their reaction to zero g go on the INSIDE of the shuttle?

Max2147 · 03-18-09, 05:16 PM

One small flight for a bat, one giant leap for batkind!

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Task Force Rear Admiral Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: SPACE!!!! Posts: 10,142 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	I guess he wanted to get to space realy bad... hitched a free ride... and forgot space is a vaccuum. (and we know what happens to animals that go into the vaccuum of space.) __________________ Task Force industries "Taking control of the world, one mind at a time"

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