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Giant Arachnid attacks Canberra Deep Space Station

Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 1:10 am
by Gob
Apr. 6, 2012 | 21:27 PDT | Apr. 7 04:27 UTC

NASA mission manager: "Hmm, why didn't our scheduled downlink happen?"
*Dials Canberra*

Canberra DSN engineer: "My God...it's hideous! Aaaaaaaaaah!"
*sound of breaking glass* *click* *dialtone*

NASA mission manager: "Canberra, are you there? Hello?"

Image

A still image from one of the two webcams monitoring the construction of a new antenna at the Canberra Deep Space Network installation, taken in 2012, day 95, at 5:57am local time, shows an unexpected visitor...

http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00003445/

Re: Giant Arachnid attacks Canberra Deep Space Station

Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 1:11 am
by Gob
I, for one, welcome our new arachnid overlords…

Re: Giant Arachnid attacks Canberra Deep Space Station

Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2012 1:14 am
by The Hen
Houston, we have a problem.