ET Tank Falling To Earth

[timosplinter]

haha flying penis!!

[pbbcanada]

LOL. That's just a stogy (a cigar)! Funny Nasa!

[CNe7532294]

Take note at 2:10 (maybe 5 seconds less) there's a tiny little speck that comes off of the ET (from their view as well as ours this speck is located on "top" if you look at the ET at a cross sectional point of view in this vid)

PS: anyone care to explain what it was and why it "falls behind" of the ET in this vid? (I presume its some of the ET's foam and the ET and it's foam encounters a small fraction of "air" resistance (Atmo. drag?) at that height level?)

[RE4E]

lol what im going to see? a fuckin lepreahun or what a fucking boogie man lol

[simpsonfani]

it looks likebig bomb....

[junoreactor05]

it looks like a big turd falling from the heavens

[taeyeonielover2008]

is there a continuation showing it splashing in the ocean?

[voges092]

I believe the External tank is designed to burn up in the atmosphere and not be recovered

[jyhammy]

looks like a nucler bomb droping onto an field

[galindune]

one thing is for sure, we can call this a U.S.O. it is there. it is not identified, and it appears to be submerged.

[hagenisse]

Heads up! :D

[galindune]

ok, at 2:56 there is an anomalous object that APPEARS to be just under the oceans surface. it must be very large and very long. it seems to be in the middle of the ocean so a jetty or pier does not seem plausable. it looks too thin to be any submarine i have seen. does anyone have any ideas?

[flatoutfullspeed]

it could be a jet at 29000ft or above

[vechio80]

it seems like the seaway of a very big ship.

[casurfer1973]

The external tank just breaks up and burns as it re-enters. It is like a big thermos. It isn't reusable like the solid rocket boosters.

[vechio80]

Why it is not burning?

[chimoy1]

yeah why??

[OilMan4TIns]

What if it falls on something?

[fusoperso]

is (only) the tank of the Shuttle!

[lpmv]

no no no guy =D ... isnt it that i'm talking .... i'm talking about the strange thing in the water at 2:56

=P

thx 4 reply me ^^

[galindune]

it looks artificial and has to be huge. they are flying over open ocean. i am assuming the north atlantic if it is just after liftoff.

[fusoperso]

I do not see anything. perhaps you refer to that thing vertical?

[lpmv]

yup guy .... its that strange vertical thing !!!!

Straaannnnge !! =X

[galindune]

an object in the water at 2:56?

[kotor87]

there's millions of debris orbiting around the earth, it could be one of them.

[lpmv]

What the hell is that ???? O.o

[fusoperso]

The external (central) tank of the Shuttle.

[Dakamum]

Imagine this was a nuclear bomb coming down on China.

[augustmaple]

i thought ET meant extraterrestrial and thought nasa was endorsing alien life theory

[joodmcg]

i thought that the external tank was meant to burn up when it was falling back to earth.

[iPH360]

what is this thing that moves away from the tank in 02:13

[santa22622]

It might be a small piece of metal

[rodylermglez]

Indeed. It shows an atmospheric drag.

Maybe the tension from the fall ripped a little chunk of the plating.

[santa22622]

the metal might of been bolted, may of came loose during takeoff.

[ugowar]

Atmospheric drag at those altitudes is vastly weaker than needed to break anything off. It's sufficient to decay the orbit within a couple of days, but it's too gentle to do much else.

Besides, at orbital speeds air drag up there would manifest itself as heating, not force.

[ugowar]

Most likely a chunk of ice that broke off from the plumbing. It's water ice that freezes while the shuttle is still on the ground and can actually reach orbit if it's got a good "grip" on the pipes/vents so it survives all the vibrations. Once in vacuum, it slowly sublimates and/or breaks off.

Other shuttle missions used to have much more ice breaking off, looking like sheets of flaky paper etc following the orbiter and tank.

[Goldcortex]

00:02:13 - small object slowley moving away from tank?

what is it?

[flvending2]

visit boxofvideos to view it all

[swimmy123456]

ET

Extra terrestrial XD

[darkchoas321]

External Tank.

[strongbadd665]

Man the video just doesn't do justice to the actual speed of things.

[spidermarcus]

Attac of the Alien Killer Vibrators *** ;)

[kenlypnxx]

what!!! no splash!!! wtf

[shivrajvishnu]

Another fake video released by NASA. To shoot video like this, the camera man should also fall (free fall) parallelly with this tank.

[madness24680]

shivravishnu:

You stated this: "Another fake video released by NASA. To shoot video like this, the camera man should also fall (free fall) parallelly with this tank. "

Why do you think so? The tank is clearly rotating as well as flying away from the camera. It just happens so slow that it gives you the illusion that the cameraman has to be in free fall as well.

[Horsku]

You know they both are in freefall, the difference is that the shuttle (or what ever the cameraman is in) is able to keep the needed velocity to stay in a trajectory around the earth. the Tank cant do that. They are falling parallel to each other but the tank is falling in altitude.

[madness24680]

Horsku:

Sorry I didn't know that even though an object is not losing altitude (for example going in orbit) it is still considered as being in "free fall." I considered being parallel to the ET also would include the same loss/rise in altitide, since the guy I replied to didn't say "parallell with respect to the space shuttle, except for the altitude."

My original point was that this video doesn't have to be fake, since we clearly can see that the ET is rotating and fading away.

[Horsku]

Well an object orbiting for example earth is in free fall, its falling towards the planet but since the planet is round the surface curves away from under it and it keeps falling. This is what we call being in an orbit.

[flvending]

Wow, I thought this would be different from what it is...

[flvending]

Wow, I thought this would be different from what it is...

[flvending2]

hmm this is interesting

[BlastnPast]

Wow, a anal pill!

[Airclot]

Are you a monkey?

[as23we12]

Seems a shame to expend all that fuel carrying such a large mass so high. What would it take to push the tank to orbit? I know the tank is too thin to be used for any manned use....but perhaps it could be pressurised to hold consumables?

...After all...what would it take? A couple of strap on solid boosters, a docking collar and an external mount pressurising rig?

Fill it full of experiments that need to be left in orbit with an atmosphere? Maybe a auto-manufacture setup?

[ZombiePowerDrink]

Do you realize that that whole thing was filled Entirely with their liquid oxygen and Hydrogen Fuel and that their is absolutely no room left inside it.

[as23we12]

Lol....Yes I realise this....

But....consider....it's only full on launch. Once it's job is done, it's a large empty volume that once orbital could be vented to vacumn to purge remaining volatiles. Some detail could be built into the tank during manufacture, such as foam aluminium partitions etc. Perhaps even some large experiments etc...the whole thing then filled with LH2...and there you go.....a useable module, once the fuel has been used. Naturally, it would be heavier.

[ZombiePowerDrink]

yea I understand what you mean but if they did that they probably are afraid that with the more complex system that it would just add one more thing's that could go wrong.

[as23we12]

Yeah...I guess you're right about that.

I expect the extra weight wouldn't be welcome either. I heard that 90% of the fuel was used in the first 10% of the journey. This may make you laugh..but I used to think of it like a car journey, I wondered why they didn't throttle back to save fuel...:)

I didn't understand that height achieved wasn't important...and that it was the speed that counted.....fractions of escape velocity and so on.

[shiversphoto]

also, please under stand that the filming of the tank falls more than 60 miles prior to entering the atmosphere (depending on mission specific orbital parameters), so the tank will be to small to actually see. what you will see is the tank reentry trail as it enters the upper atmosphere. By the time the tank enters the atmosphere, the shuttle is long gone (hundreds of miles) from ET separation.

[shiversphoto]

I used to work on the shuttle program at JSC. the tank burns up during reentry. the friction caused by the speed of the tank as it enters the atmosphere is great enough to burn it up. the SRB'S ( the two solid rocket motors) on the sides are jettisoned at a lower altitude and return to earth by parachute to be reused...

[amievery1]

Hell, that could be anything. We just see some bullet shaped object going through the sky but they don't have the decency to show it landing. At least extend the time on the video or something like that. That could easily have been dropped from an MIG25 - the highest aircraft only.

[ScorpionGB]

Do they target the fall or they just let it fall wherever ?

[ZombiePowerDrink]

It is designed to land on a raft of illegal Cuban immigrants that are trying to enter the US

[soonerfan4]

Ive haven't laughed that hard in a while.

[ScorpionGB]

Why does everybody has to be such a fucking racist ? Aight you just trynna be funny ok, but man! com' on!

Does anybody got an answer tho ?

[indianavince]

It is in the atmosphere, they jettson it berfore they go orbital. the re-use that tank. I do wish I could have seen it splash. That is a long way down. Don't flame me I know at least 5 shuttle comanders/crew/

[shiversphoto]

They do not reuse the tank, it burns up in re entry...

[indianavince]

Sorry went to internet.... neither of us is right. It's too low and too big to "burn". It falls into the Indian ocean. I am remembering the early shuttle test flights in the 80's when it did splash down in the Atlantic after launch.

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[uziel187]

That's good video,good job on the stability.

[djbro16]

I would like to ride that on the way down..

[AxeManJax]

Koyaanisqatsi! :-D

[HerrMac]

Koyaanisqasti indeed!

[AxeManJax]

Just needs some Philip Glass music, et voila! :)

[dcmccants]

So. no shot of this thing slamming into the ocean???

[lolvks]

the ET never hits the ground, it burns up in the atmosphere

[asch1989]

Well that was cod s**t whats happening oh thats rite SFA

[kristinaF54]

Looks like Megan dropped her dildo.

[EyeOnTheTV]

sorry for the spam - but is about time the shuttle gets an HD system. Hopefully they catch some genuine UFOs with it.

[EyeOnTheTV]

If you stare at that thing long enough you start to see a glow around it. I thought it was hitting the atmosphere but discovered it goes away when I blink my eyes... would have been cool to see it start to burn.

[rbscholtus]

I wonder, if the tanks and rocket boosters come free of the launched shuttle, and then fall in the ocean, is that stuff being re-used? Or do they make new tanks and rockets all the time?

Prob not a very intelligent question, but one has to start somewhere.

[EyeOnTheTV]

The Solid Rocket Boosters (SRBs) deploy parachutes and are recovered to be used again. The orange tanks, like the one in this video, eventually burn up in the atmosphere.

[kamboi]

fake

[demonikreaper]

I'll hit you.

[hpribot]

You lack education.

[secoxxx]

hmm, a flaoting tank, wow

[momboom]

That floating tank gets a rocket out of our atmosphere... Pretty important..

[ladyladydah]

In all seriousness there is a point in the video where it looks like a ciggerette butt.

[dagubment]

Could be one of Obama's!

[dannyman121]

Dang, no collision

[taliban0king]

anyone have a vid of something re-entering and on fire?

[chinito77]

It takes a loooong time to fall in space. That thing is going to hurt when it bonks someone in the head.

[hotstugg99]

yea u mean in the roof

[FourthPlaya]

i thought ET meant alien object of some kind =o

[likeabrokendamn]

It looks like a penis

[redeyesthe20th]

intuitive.

[bambarby]

this is boring as hell give us some explosion pls

[solidox113]

Why the fuck did i watched this whole lenght..

[ferrariModenas]

Huston we have a problem, I just wet my pants!!

[kiplaws]

At 2:14 into the clip, check out the sphere that is flying along with the tank. You can see it at the bottom of the tank (top in this view). What is it? Foam? Don't think so...

[Tommyr]

Reflection from inside the crew cabin.

[captainxbox36O]

i saw this when i was driving on the highway at night....I think.... it was a flash of light like a comet or something

[paistekid95]

it wont fall on anybody, infact it falls into the indian ocean and is cleared of any ships if the guys at NASA miscaulate=]

thoughti;d let ya know

[keegsmeister]

i wanted to see where it hits the ground :(

[BarryLeeJones]

someone I know would love to have it falling between her legs...

[roodood]

doesn't it burn up while falling through the atmosphere?

[donnyph]

if you watch carefluy, you will notice that the top of the tank is slowly consuming,

It's clearly visible at 4.25

[joachim2464]

actually that is just form the seperation burn of the Solid Rocket Booster. By the time this video is taken the tanks is clear of the atmosphere and is actually going up into an higher orbit, then about 45 minutes later the tank falls down and hits the indian ocean. I think its orbit is actually 250 * 50 kilometers.

[kloudd]

i'm sure it does, because that would do a lot of damage

[secretorganisation]

what if it fall onto someone head?

[tjwwe]

then they die

[Okidus]

hopefully its yours.

[secretorganisation]

i hope its ur retarded head

[harleybayo]

ES UN SPACE SEROTE!!!

[kkkkaran]

its a giant dildooooooooo

[GKiltz]

Pretty cool!

You can actually tell the cloud tops are getting closer. Would have been even cooler to follow it all the way down!

[GKiltz]

Which tank is this again?

[Okidus]

bolo

[kavelnikov]

LOOK AT 2:14!!! what is that white thing floating away from the tank?? (foam??) please explain, thanks...

[sunnyallthetime]

Vibrator in spaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaace!!­!

[sunray06]

Any one else spot the UFO in the video?

[kokobaboko]

Yeah, I wish i had it here in front of me because my drink is getting warm.

[Realgamecock]

Beautiful work NASA and crew

[denisdavidyuk]

the whole video and it still dident land, wat the heck ,lol

[kokobaboko]

It would be a lot cooler to watch it in the final stage as it burns up.

[Tyler2529]

this a lame ass video.

[iownuall123]

1 question. why would they fake the moon landing after people CLEARLY saw a rocket with PEOPLE in it launch into space?

[jaydubb2]

So.... they went into space, nobody is denying that. But what they are wondering is how, with the limited technology they had, did they make it past the Van Allen radiation belt? Not even the space shuttle will get near that without the astronauts complaining of the affects.

It looks more like something created in a movie set to self-affirm Americans belief in superiority, while claiming victory against the Russians.

[JordanMedina]

Claim superiority over Russians through our camera prowress? doubt it. plus it's not like its the 1960's anymore

[jaydubb2]

Think you missed the point, it WAS the 1960's when we landed on the moon... that was what the original question about. Humans being able to go into space is one thing (I think that's an obvious one), but the moon.....

[Ictinike]

Oh good christ. Even a moron can watch "Mythbusters" and see how/why it worked. You need us to fly you out there and show you the foot prints to make the point? Guess what, you're not worth it.

[jaydubb2]

morons watch mythbusters? I figured

[maddenfreak1995]

iknow

[opinion56]

Russians simply lost the cold war because Ronald Reagan initiated an arms race and they could not keep up with their isolated economy resulting in a collapse.

[jaydubb2]

wasn't talking about the cold war, but the space race, which americans won right?

[opinion56]

ya America won the space race what is your point?

[jaydubb2]

what I'm saying is that there was substantial reason to say we made it to the moon... weather we did so or not. And the facts remain that it is very dangerous to cross through the Van Allen radiation belt. A feat that has since never been accomplished. That was my point.

[Superseimon]

are you a scientist or are you just quoting from your creepy websites.

the radiation in den bell is too low to cause severe harm to the astronauts and they're only about 1 hour in it.

(well you could say wikipedia is providing the conspiracy, but due to the fact there are so many educated people visiting it each day, i doubt that.)

[Superseimon]

it's incredible, appearently life is too boring for people who always seek a conspiracy in everything...

this doesn't mean you mustn't think about the possibility, but reading websites that write what you wanna read doesn't exactly match the criteria of "scientific thinking" (the information that science can provide e.g. for the radiation belt, you just ignore them..)

[Airclot]

Actually, the Van Allen radiation belt is crossed by the shuttle crew. Not such a big feat now, is it?

[opinion56]

If the moon landing was staged the Russians would have known that the rockets never left the earth since they had spy satellites and would have told the world about it so your logic is faulty.

[jaydubb2]

I never said they didn't go into space

[JordanMedina]

I think any species with the sophistication to melt it's own planet can land on its satellite with little difficulty.

[truckboy79]

It IS a Giant Dick... ha ha ha ha!!! Next mission they need to paint "Drew Blows" on the side! ha ha ha ha

[RAMBLINGMAN75]

next time NASA should drop that thing right onto George W Bush House in Crawford, Texas....now that would be a youtube hit!!!!

[maikonarruda]

o seu gringo doido.

[thebigwhiterock]

isn't it meant to burn up?

[george15tube]

Look like a giant dick...

who? Dr.evil ?

[alphaq40]

Looks like the world's largest vibrator.

[chiragsindhu]

fake nasa video

no effects of temperature rise of fall even at the atmospheric range this thing is flying

and would someone tell me why the fuck is atlantis following a falling tank that is virtually unimportant

wasting millions of dollors of tax payer's money

nasa's ducky joke!!!!!!!!!!!

[kevintype]

Chiragsindhu, no extra money needs to be spent for the shuttle to "follow" the external fuel tank. They are already moving in the same general direction, at very close to the same speed.

All that is required is to point a camera in the right direction while the shuttle goes where it was already going to go anyway.

The reason to do this is explained in the video. They are checking for damage. If the tank is damaged, the shuttle might be damaged, which could be dangerous when landing.

[Falkirion]

To add another point to your explaination. The TPS (Thermal protection system) or heatshield is also inspected on Flight Day 2 with the OBSS which uses lasers and cameras to allow the crew to inspect every inch of the shuttle using the crafts robotic arm. After they undock from the Hubble they should preform another check just before they start packing everything up for Deorb and landing.

[chiragsindhu]

tell me instein junior

when the shuttle takes of

abt 3-4 miinutes latet the fuel tank is released when it happens

just think abt its terjectory how would the tank go

thats it it would go in the opposite direction as against shown in the video

so if u want to check the image of the tank

via the same shuttle u will hav to change ur terjectory and that would cost fuel if u dont power ur shuttle by sunlight

[kevintype]

Oh, Chiragsindhu, you cheerful scamp! You delightful scalawag! You are just as cute as the dickens! Bless your little heart!

You almost made me believe you were serious, but it just isn't possible.

Okay, bye-bye now!

[kokobaboko]

You're a moron, the tank follows the same trajectory. You see there was this dude named Newton who kinda explained all this 400 years ago tool.

[BeaverWalrus]

why would they fake this? I could understand why they would fake a moon landing but why this?

And they probably aren't trying to follow it, it probably just happens to be in their path.

Not to mention in the video they explain all kinds of reasons for watching it (test of HD video on shuttle, possible foam falling off)

This probably didn't cost that much money, once in orbit you don't use up fuel.

There are plenty more things that the government waste money on far less important than space.

[kokobaboko]

Wow, it's amazing you can even turn your computer on, let alone type that stupidity.

[chiragsindhu]

why dont u go to ur physics lecture boy

or u mom would shout at u boy scaring the shit out of u !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kokobaboko]

Why don't you got back and get molested by your youth minister?

[hatef187]

whyyyyyyy?

[waswadawas]

Stupid! Is not true for what? This is only an External Tank! omg ... this is really tuporogie kids

[CaCaFoGo]

What The Hell are you people saying? It's an Extra Terrestrial Tank from the Space Shuttle... Its not a Alien Tank -.-" I don't believe its fake....there is nothing to fake.........It's ET because the Shuttle released it from space.................fags

[carlsburgh]

its someones lipstick in it lol

[cuazulado]

I though it was a ET's tank

[rastazerox]

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[mistaspot1]

u ok?

[rastazerox]

yeah im good...

[christhekiwi12]

fake