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mmcirvin ([personal profile] mmcirvin) wrote2005-07-26 11:16 pm

The unluckiest bird in the world

among other things, photographed during today's space shuttle launch.

After the Columbia disaster naturally they're nervous about pieces falling off of the shuttle, so they've got cameras all over creation, and, lo and behold, all kinds of things fall off of the shuttle when it goes up, and it also hit a bird. My impression is that this is basically the kind of thing that happens every time. You know there are going to be a lot of tense meetings about that tile on the underside, anyway.

[identity profile] chicken-cem.livejournal.com 2005-07-26 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Dum de dum .... flap, flap, flap ... la la la .... Wha? AHHHHH! *splat*

Poor critter. I'm sure it didn't have nearly that much warning. More like none. Sure am glad right now that chickens can't fly that high! Heh.

[identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com 2005-07-26 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, you can see part of the launch gantry in the shot, so it actually wasn't that far off the ground. The shuttle does accelerate pretty fast right off the pad, though, compared to, say, the Saturn V moon rocket which was so huge its thrust could barely lift it into the air right at the beginning.

And the whole general vicinity turns into a pretty bad place to be when the rocket passes through it...
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[personal profile] jecook 2005-07-26 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
mmm.. roast bird... ::drools::

[identity profile] glitter-ninja.livejournal.com 2005-07-26 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Might be more like flattened, flash-fried bird.
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[personal profile] davetheinverted 2005-07-26 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
The unluckiest bird in the world

I dunno...I'd have to say that particular title is still held by the one that got nailed by a Randy Johnson fastball a few years back.

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[identity profile] iayork.livejournal.com 2005-07-27 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
You kids! That one was nothing to the seagull Dave Winfield hit with a tossed ball, while trying to scare it off the field, at Toronto's Skydome some 20 years ago. As his manager observed, it was the first time he'd hit the cutoff man all year.
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[personal profile] ckd 2005-07-27 08:31 am (UTC)(link)
Winfield's bird didn't appear to explode.

[identity profile] iayork.livejournal.com 2005-07-27 08:42 am (UTC)(link)
No, but you got to see a batboy somberly laying a towel, like a shroud, over the bird. You also got to see Winfield arrested for cruelty to animals on his next trip to Toronto.