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A satellite belonging to multinational service provider Intelsat mysteriously broke up in geostationary orbit over the weekend.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 50 points 5 months ago

I guess space is technically out of the environment.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They thought it did ... so they tried turning it off then on again ... and it exploded.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

"Did it pass the smoke test?"

"Kinda... There's no smoke, anyway..."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

That line was really funny. The first time we heard it. Many years ago.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not my fault it's still relevant.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

You should tow it out of the environment or something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

It's roughly equivalent to "something something pilot's balls" in the comments of a video of an aircraft.

A joke that's been absolutely beaten to death years ago, but people just will not accept it's run it's course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Absolutely devistating.