Re: report: ISS minor debris strike

Pat Flannery wrote:

> Tom Merkle wrote:
>
> >
> >Living in a tube for several months, you get very used to 'normal'
> >noises, and a different one occuring--different and loud enough to
> >notice--is usually a bad sign. If I were Houston I would give the
> >astronauts the benefit of the doubt on judgement and look very hard
> >for an actual problem.
> >
> >
> >
> Hopefully, they will find it in a more benign way than the crew of Mir
> found the glycol leak (Cosmonaut  Lazutkin's probing for the leak in the
> unlit Kvant module, and running head-first into a floating ball of
> glycol, that pulled itself over his face by capillary action).
>
> Pat

Eeewww.  I took a warm glycol shower a couple of times inside of an old UHF
TV transmitter.  Slippery, nasty stuff.
James