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I know what the historical present is but its use here is confusing. Just use "dropped." If the headline needs the present use "leave".
I don't understand what's confusing about saying "drop" and to me the headline makes perfect sense. What is it you dont like?
Military officers, brilliant scientists, physically fit and operating in perhaps the most demanding environment we've asked of the human body... and all anyone remembers is they dropped the spanner.
If anything, you'd usually expect a negative association between excellence in one area and excellence in another area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
Planetes is real? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meAYYH-DYKc
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There's a giant swimming pool in Galveston which has a full underwater replica of the ISS for astronaut training. There are other scuba divers that work with the astronauts when they practice maintenance. One of their jobs (like the invisible waiter at a high end restaurant that makes dirty utensils go away) is to "retrieve" anything that the astronauts "put down". Often the maintenance jobs are multi-hour "space wal…
There's one in Galveston in addition to the Neutral Buoyancy Lab at JSC in Clear Lake?
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It seems that much like we become able to delegate tasks like setting down a coffee cup to our subconscious on Earth, after a while in microgravity astronauts become accustomed to "setting things down" in midair. It's could be that just like in a shop on the ground, "where did I set down that wrench" is an issue; an astronaut might "set down" a tool in midair on a spacewalk and forget that they're not in a confined s…
That video is a joke. Read the description.
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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 confirmed whether the tool box contained a 10mm wrench. Personally, that's everything I needed to know about the situation.
An 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!
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