Lost Tool Bag Filmed In Earth Orbit

[Doesumama]

She wouldn't have lost the bag if she was in the kitchen, and the tool bag was a sandwich.

[coby111]

Fuck the ISS, I wish I would have looked for this back in 2009. According to NASA, you would have only needed 10x binoculars to see it.

[tungah]

I think that's a teapot. Jussayin'...

[SableSpike747]

Well that's a unique satellite!

[McDeeViouz]

That was E.T coming back to restock on M&M's

[IIDraithII]

-sigh- its a woman who lost the toolbox

[cokefan3]

@IIDraithII *sigh* It's a troll who commented on youtube

[Karletto555]

i hope there are only screwdrivers in it

[Terrorizer321]

why is it lit up??? its a tool bag not a light??

[motherthing]

@Terrorizer321 The reflection of light from the earth off of the bag. Sigh.

[Terrorizer321]

@motherthing obviously you wouldn't beable to see it so far away fool

[macgyver2210]

HAHAHA ISS Deb ftw

[stalkervision]

Please...

[taaf20082]

Sorry, I forgot the :rolleyes:

[taaf20082]

Oh, I'm scared..

[durks2514]

How do we know that's the tool bag and not just some random space debris?

[pnktout]

Over 10,000 pieces of Space debris AND 1500+ satellites are tracked 24/7. A simple google search "track tool bag in space" . The first link will give you a live a precise longitude , latitude, speed, altitude location in orbit of the bag. NASA's site also has a link to tracking debris, satellites and the ISS by city search.

So, when you see its gonna be coming over your area, step out side and look for it. If you have a telescope, as you can its even better. :)

[durks2514]

Well that's cleared that up, thanks.

[motherthing]

@durks2514 Read the description.....

[99F]

how does he know where to point his telescope??

[PocketHercules99]

So as slow as shit is goin up there in space its actually at a fast speed????????

[tehsma]

The speed is relative to where you measure it from, If you were flying beside it (lets say the astronaut jumped after it, from her position on the space station) the "speed" of the toolbag she would measure would be far less than we would measure down here on earth. relative to us on earth, the thing is probably going 13,000 mph or so.

[PocketHercules99]

ya thats true hey, but wouldnt the bag be so small we would barely see it at that distance

[riqisinna]

with the naked eye of course you wouldnt see it from earth

[PocketHercules99]

Man i just saw Star trek and with all the shit ive learned on youtube it made so much more intense

[TexTK]

yikes

its k, its only a 100,000 dollar tool

taxpayer's money can cover that

[riqisinna]

pig

[mockba4ever]

XDXD mira que son capullos...lo mismo quieren hacernos creer que han grabado la bolsita los coj...ones en orbita alrededor de la tierra. jajajajajaja, espero que caiga en mi casa, y que no se queme en la reentrada, que vale 1.000.000$...es decir....la entrada a una nueva y pedazo casaaaaa!!!!! jajajaj estos de la NASA son medio GILIPOLLAS

[fochkopf]

Looks like just another satellite.

[GualVue]

November 26, 2008

Lost NASA tool bag found! But by amateur astronomers

Amateur astronomers in the U.S. have managed to find a tool bag, which NASA astronaut Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper lost during a space walk last week.

[GualVue]

The first sighting was made by Edward Light from New Jersey, using 10x50 binoculars, on the night of November 23. He noticed the bag traveling in space near the Pisces star constellation. Another amateur astronomer, Kevin Fetter, managed to film the object and later posted the video on the Internet. The 50cm X 30 cm bag, is now orbiting the Earth at a height of 400 kilometres.

[isaacmecto]

cool. possibly the fastest free falling tool bag in our solar system.

[sebasthechecka]

And now u need the screaming zombie face while the bag is flying by!! hahaha I think this is a FeaK!! But nasa has a problem now because the bag could crash into a satellite!!

[HitodamaKyrie]

I'm sure the satellite will get over it.

[joachim2464]

the chance of that thing hitting a satelite is the same as any other satelite hitting another satelite. And that has never happened. NASA aint got no problem

[Gaillard]

Until today. The Iridium 33 satellite hit a russian satellite above Siberia a few hours ago.

[joachim2464]

YEAH, i saw that lol! but still, it was the first time:)

[insanity0c]

Hasn't that got something to do with the texas fireballs?

[spidersinspace]

Do you think there might be a connection between this story and how women can never remember where they left their purse?

[TonyoHUN]

How do you know its that toolbag?

Im really curious about that so please explain, how can I recognize it?

[rgbfilter]

Check out the link in the description. There's a link to a site that tracks man made objects in the sky.

You just enter your zip/postal code and it tells you when and where you'll see things like the tool bag, the ISS and more.

It's actually pretty cool.

[TonyoHUN]

Thx!

[josuegomes2]

@TonyoHUN Math!

[keepup32323]

well the bag may have fallen but the tools where totally on show when she lost it

[Ali26449]

so thats where the hammer came from

ow (rubs head)

[bob110h]

so if that toolbag falls down to earth & kills someone would the obituary read "death by toolbag"?

[Homeboy011]

it will burn up in the atmosphere

[BoltFraction]

Shameless lol.

[ozlnd]

Climate change, now probably goin to be blamed on a toolbag.

[AKN74]

It's now the world's fastest tool bag

[jberlotti]

@AKN74 LMFAO!!! That comment literally busted me into laughter.

[rodrigomangue]

@AKN74 for sure...

[floydiangreen]

that could be anything..... why was it glowing?

[nawab305]

you really dont know whay was it glowing???..read the 3rd gread friction lessons again.

[darkbahumet]

But i love how you misspelt Grade wrong kinda eliminates the point but yea i agree with you

[southparkgtaca]

It's glowing because the sun is shining on that side, same reason the moon glows.

It is not from friction, as if it were on fire from the friction, it would already be gone.... Right?

(I don't want to look like a dumb ass here...)

[Webboarder]

Every object orbiting Earth (or another planetary body) is falling, so it looks like there is no gravity. But because of the forward motion, it isn't hitting the Earth, it's falling around it. That's how every orbiting object stays up there. However, objects in LEO (Low Earth Orbit) can fall back into the Earth's atmosphere, because traces of air can still be found there, which causes drag. The object slows down, looses altitude, and finally it hits Earth's atmosphere and disintegrates.

[centolitri]

You meant to say, "objects speedup" The lower the orbit, the higher the speed. It is a little confusing to think how drag makes objects in orbit speed up.

[dagmarlouw]

I wonder if my bag would travel at the same speed.

[frededison]

The astronaut who lost a glove on an EVA shouldn't feel so bad. I doubt his glove cost $100,000. But if you add inflation, who knows. Increased solar activity (flares coming our way) tends to increase atmospheric drag on artificial satellites (like the kit), so its orbit may degrade faster than predicted. The spacefaring handyman's kit is another object for NORAD to track, as if they didn't have enough already. Time to put a teather on the toolbags, and everything else.

[GL314159]

The toolbag cost $100k because it costs ~10,000/lb to get items into orbit.

[strike219821]

its going a little "fast" because its going at 5 miles per second!!!

[bananaman22]

why is it so bright

is the tool bag in orbit? it has to be eh? its travelling really fast tho to be in orbit. since if it was "dropped" in space it wud probably float around

but it seems to be flying... so is it coming down?

[Freecell82]

It's not travelling really fast for something in orbit. Anything in orbit is continuously falling, it'll move quit fast. Nothing dropped up there will just "float around," it'll be pulled towards the earth.

[bananaman22]

err wtf are u talking about?

wiki orbit and answer again. or take physics.

[rzindubs]

LOL Wut?

[Freecell82]

Trolled

[XxnesiexX]

it wiull come back to earth and probally burn up in the atmosphere sometime soon

[DongleKumquat]

if it was floating around, earth's gravity would have already pulled it into the atmosphere and it would have disintegrated. it looks like its going so fast because its traveling at several miles per second. and its bright because the sun is shining on it. and it is falling, but veeerrry slowly. It won't fall back toward earth for a LOONG time.

[mw99mw]

actualy i belive it was in earths orbit dumbass, aint no gravity there, all u do is FLOAT around the earth.... fuckin idiot....

[DongleKumquat]

there IS gravity in earth's orbit dumbass, its whats keeping the international space station from flying away. fuckin idiot....

[mw99mw]

lmao first u say something in the orbit would have fallen into earths atmosphere, now your saying another object in orbit would fly away... make up ur fuckin mind...

[DongleKumquat]

Ok, let me rephrase: if the toolbag was FLOATING AROUND, and not moving WITH gravity (because there IS gravity there) it would fall towards earth. If there WASN'T gravity in Earth's orbit, something, i.e. the ISS, would float away; so would the toolbag.

[mw99mw]

ok, i know i was wrong about the gravity, but an object orbiting around earth will never fall into the atmosphere, search orbit on wiki to get ur facts straight

[DongleKumquat]

Uh huh. It will. Just verrry very slowly

[mw99mw]

u really are fucking stupid man, heres a qoute from one of ur previous posts..."if it was floating around, earth's gravity would have already pulled it into the atmosphere and it would have disintegrated." but now, ur saying it will but verrry very slowly, make.up.your.fuckin.mind.u.ret­arded.retard

[DongleKumquat]

Here's what i responded to: "but an object ORBITING around earth will never fall into the atmosphere". Yes it will. If the said object was NOT MOVING AT ALL AND "just floating around" then it will fall DIRECTLY towards the earth. An orbiting object will not fall directly towards it because it's moving so fast. YOU wiki orbit and see what it says.

[Cobalt135]

You should do some research before calling someone out just because you don't understand something. Look up "orbital decay" that is what the other guy means by falling back "very slowly". Look at the orbit data from the space station and the toolbag on Heavens-Above. The toolbag is already at a lower orbit than the ISS so by that logic it won't stay in orbit "forever" without rockets to boost it back up. Hell, the space station needs boosted occasionally cause it starts falling back to Earth.

[Cobalt135]

That was supposed to be a reply to mw99mw ....

[sickshotz4all]

a little BIG to be a tool bag dont you think..and its glowing.

[calz91]

How can it be proven its the toolbag...and not one of the other thousands of things that are orbiting us?

[molinarok]

Because you can simly trace the path of it's orbit back to where the shuttle was when she dropped it.

[rgbfilter]

If you hit up the link in the info, you can see there's a link to space weather, where you can enter your location, and they tell you when and where different objects will be in the night sky.

They track the tool bag, ISS, Genesis 2 and other objects.

The tool bag will be overhead in my area in about 45 minutes, for example. :D

[weRollin26s]

lol thats pretty cool

[ATCQuicksilver]

Although if it did make it through the atmosphere for comedy purposes, which make objects immune to any damage so long as they feature in a funny youtube video, and it landed in America, I would want to hear the Nasa message to the woman that lost it.

"Yeh ummmm, you're being sued, a man is claiming you assaulted him by throwing a toolkit at him from space"

[magick205]

Ever see the show "Dead Like Me". The lead character is killed by a toilet seat from the disintigrating MIR space station. What a way to check out.

[Cardinalbud]

It would burn up in the atmosphere before making it to the surface.

[PhilosopherStoned]

shit....i got a whole list of tool bags that deserve to be sent into orbit. is nasa taking requests?

[anthony7250]

NASSHOLES what do they do up there anyways? and don't you think it would be a little more hospitable if we are supposed to be there? what a waste of money and natural resources. when you think about it everything we NEED is easy to get water food wood etc whatever the case is thats how it is. We are not supposed to be going to into space. and especially not on "Missions" mission for what that does what? ohh thanks for Velcro

[bitobaco]

Well, I don't think anyone is "supposed" to be anywhere. Life is a struggle, no matter where you are. But you're right, there's probably no real direct benefit, in short term.

[chaumas]

>We are not supposed to be going to into space.

This is the dumbest argument against anything I've ever read.

[thalesmedaglia]

hahahahaha "We are not supposed to be going to into space" that was really funny.

We're suppose to sit around and wait for a very big rock to hit us...

[garruloes]

ahahah what r u doing with a computer men??¿ they've wasted natural resources to build it, u could be living in a cave eating the plants around u and drinking water from a river!! we would be much happier if u hadn't wasted all all those materials!! shame on you!!

[Inmigracionmasivacom]

nice

im from spain

[todirbg]

LOL Expect "The Gogs must be crazy" 4 in the cinemas soon :-D

[todirbg]

I mean Gods

[candeewolf]

The reason that the bag seems to be traveling so fast is not because it actually is. It is not because of no resistance in space, but rather because Earth spins so fast.  This is compounded by the fact that the object is so far out in space, so circumference-wise, it will travel a greater distance around Earth than if it were closer to Earth. The bag is probably traveling quite slow, but when the Earth spins at around 700 mph near Ontario, the bag should seem to travel this fast.

[zvonkybun]

Actually, the speed of the bag will be roughly the same as the space station itself, which is around 15000-17000 mph.

[Sorenra]

the bag would just burn up in the atmosphere nothing would hit the earth

[igordeamorim]

for sure the bag is the world's fastest

[lelekoJumboJet]

hahahahaha look like an UFO!

Superman,where are you? xD

i'm from Brazil,too!

[igordeamorim]

huahauhauha

calls the super man that he pulls the bag huahauhauhauhauahuha

Im from Brasil

[triggerchelsea1]

Blimey! No wonder it got away.

[doodydude234]

If it falls to earth, hits someone and they die. Would she be charged with manslaughter?

[FreeRangeVids]

I don't think it will fall to earth, but if it did and hurt someone NASA would probably liable for the damages.

[esotericagenda]

It would burn up very quickly in our atmosphere.

[jpower511]

NASA said it will burn up in June of this year.

[LiamAddison08]

That's Gonna Hella Fast For A Toolkit Isn't It?

[VanguardBeta]

Yeah I expected it to be a bit slower too. It's space though, so there's no resistance.

[thedab101]

Hilarious! Great video!

[OELSteve]

hmm, would a bag really be visible in orbit? It also looks a bit big really. More likely to be another satellite.

[VanguardBeta]

Sure it would, light from the sun would still bounce off.

[jpickles]

Hope it doesn't hit a satellite.

[1decee]

The way the government spends our money, probably the only thing in the tool bag is a hammer

[FreeRangeVids]

I think they said 2 silicon guns and a spatula... so you are pretty close to the truth there. In fact a good hammer probably costs more than those items at my local hardware store :p

[paldengyatsosfriend]

Tool!!

[TommyThai28]

That is worth a 100,000 someone get it!!!

[ribenawrath]

lol...its cost you more then that to get it. not really worth it. unless you happened to have a giant fishing rod. maybe if you climbed a tree you could reach? :)

[VanguardBeta]

Hah, maybe we should stand outside with our arms out and just hope? :P

[geo33a3]

Enough debris in space... :-) - you can chack if translator is accurate

[rgbfilter]

Google tranlates it as:

Well, debris in space is very much... :-)

Which works just as well. :D

[jpickles]

I like Google translator. Very cool! Or should I say... милый. lol

[geo33a3]

Ну, мусора в космосе очень много... :-)

[rgbfilter]

If my Google Translate is accurate, I agree! :D