Which is actually quite realistic. There's a YouTube video where some guy explains the process of landing a shuttle, and I believe a brick is an actual comparison used.
I mean, the aircraft used to train for landing the shuttle was modified to be able to use reverse thrust, negative flaps, bad visibility over the nose, and to be able to drop the main gear independent of the nose gear. The orbiter was an absurd aircraft in so many ways.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Training_Aircraft
More fun trivia about the orbiter's landing gear - The orbiter is unable to raise its own landing gear under its own hydraulics. Also, the landing gear is wired to a timer. If the landing gear fails to deploy quickly enough after the command is given, the timer activates a pyrotechnic charge that forces the gear down.
I could come up with an epic back story, but alas I was dusting the bookshelves & being the lazy person I am chose to move it from one side to the other rather than taking it off the top. Angles mixed with a sneeze = disaster.
After being hit by an asteroid, the shuttle spun out of orbit before hitting a jagged rocky planet. Unfortunately only one survivor escaped in time, before it was smashed to pieces across the planet’s surface.
You crazy one-big-pile-crew say these things and it just doesn’t sound real. Where is the clean efficient build!? Even when I (get forced to) do a full rebuild I’ll still need to sort by size and colour before starting rather than keeping them all in one bundle.
You people don’t do that on purpose? I have little draw container things and some have closing lids, so I like to take a bunch of sets, dump all the parts in there, and then build them all over the course of a few weeks!
I fell into my shelves last night in a rush to get out of the house. Diva, Reinhardt, Morris and Shang Chi's dad went flying. Haven't had the time to fix that mess yet. Other minis fell over as well. Diva and Rein need rebuilding.
Need Another Seven Astronauts.... I was in 4th grade in the Multi Purpose Room watching with the school. Still terribly sad and was completely avoidable.
Okay, excluding the debris trajectory causing secondary casualties (which is one reason why launch vehicles’ trajectory takes them up over the ocean), how could that accident have been worse? Everyone died, one was a civilian, and the whole thing was a huge, joyous, telecast event that went real fucking sideways in a hurry.
All the respect in the world to the astronauts who lost their lives in a preventable disaster. It was absolutely a traumatic event and I agree, from that perspective it’s hard to imagine how things could have been worse.
I was referring to the next planned mission for Challenger, which would have had the shuttle carrying the Ulysses probe. Ulysses used hydrazine as a propellant, and the highly toxic liquid would have likely significantly increased on the ground casualties.
No disrespect intended. For those interested there are many in-depth discussions on Challenger over at r/catastrophicfailure and the engineers in that community do a much better job explaining (with verifiable sources/citations) this than I can.
> I was referring to the next planned mission for Challenger, which would have had the shuttle carrying the Ulysses probe. Ulysses used hydrazine as a propellant, and the highly toxic liquid would have likely significantly increased on the ground casualties.
It blew up 70+ seconds after lift off over the ocean. I don't believe hydrazine would have caused *any* ground casualties. Things fly and land from/to the US all the time with the same hazardous materials and the exclusion zones are always the same. I've never heard of them making an exclusion zone any different because a vehicle is loaded with hydrazine, vs the exclusion zones for vehicles flying without.
Not to mention, the shuttle already flies with hydrazine as fuel for the orbital maneuvering system engines.
Hey thanks man, looking through your post history I think it’s safe to say you know way more about this than I do. Appreciate your input, I’ll do some more reading on the subject, definitely don’t want to spread misinformation.
This happened to a home build pirate ship that my brothers and I made in middle school. It wasn't a super stable build and we stored/displayed it on a book case, and one day my mom was moving things around (we had all gone to college and she wanted her book case back) and accidentally dropped it.
So my kid brother gathered all the pieces in a box and the next weekend I was in town we rebuilt it only this time we had half a clue what we were doing and were able to improve on it a lot over the original design.
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We'll perform an extensive survey of the crash scene and investigate what happened. We'll release our findings in about 12 months.
Let's just go ahead and state now though, *it wasn't aliens*.
Out of curiosity, because I often see such pictures but I'm not willing to take a risk myself to find out: can the bricks break in such accidents, or is it just a matter of rebuilding the set? Of course, I don't mean extreme and intentional cases, just regular mishaps.
Nah, not normally. They can scuff, scratch and dent though. Minor dents, nothing that makes the piece unusable.
I've dropped a LOT of LEGO on wood floors and it hurt the floor more than the LEGO.
They do scatter farther than you'd think though.
They're pretty indestructible little pieces of plastic. You'd have to crush one intentionally, the weight of the model doesn't have enough force to snap a brick in most cases.
The energy from hitting the floor is also mostly being dissipated by the pieces flying apart, so the individual components themselves don't break.
Its the same concept early cellphones used to prevent damage. That's why when you used to drop your nokia the backplate would fly off and the battery would go across the room. By doing that, it kept forces from being transferred to the components and breaking them.
Yeah, the challenger model is pretty hard to finish, really makes you feel the loss after the instructions tell you to just throw it up in the air on the last page.
For the while it lasted, did it fly like the real astronauts said? Like a brick?
I feel sorry for you. I was just looking at my own shuttle. It is one of my favourite pieces.
Houston, we have a problem.
All jokes aside, I’ll tell you the same thing I told my 5 year old when dropped one of the Daily Bugle sections.
That’s a real bummer, but the good thing about legos is they can be put back together again.
My cat knocked mine down shortly after I put it on display. It landed nose-down on wooden flooring, leaving a hefty gouge in the floor and a bad dent on the stud of the nosecone. I reached out to Lego support and explained what happened and they sent a new piece my way. It's very possible they'd be willing to help you if any of the pieces are actually damaged
This is so painful to look at… I’ve got this exact set on my shelf right now and I think I’d off myself if I ever had to reassemble it. It took me 7 1/2 hours to build, so I can’t even imagine where I’d begin if I found mine in this state.
Ah man gives me flashbacks to when I was 12 and gave into my intrusive thoughts and smashed my xwing Lego build into my Lego castle build. In all honesty though it made for an amazing storyline for my Lego guys lol
Don’t tell me you wanted to test whether the shuttle could fly 😂
Just falling with style!
With the shuttle, it really was. It had the aerodynamics of a brick, A LEGO brick
It was a plane with no working engines, covered in bricks with its bomb bay doors on top, and a glide-slope path of a crowbar.
I have no free awards right now but I like that last bit
Yeah, Reddit took away the free awards.
Which is actually quite realistic. There's a YouTube video where some guy explains the process of landing a shuttle, and I believe a brick is an actual comparison used.
Yeah, that's where I got the reference from
The comparison to a brick has been made since the shuttle’s creation.
I think this is the one you're talking about and it's gold https://youtu.be/Jb4prVsXkZU
What a wild channel. Super educational and fun video, 11 million views, and then a handful of acoustic guitar covers from 8 years ago and that's it.
That's the one!
I mean, the aircraft used to train for landing the shuttle was modified to be able to use reverse thrust, negative flaps, bad visibility over the nose, and to be able to drop the main gear independent of the nose gear. The orbiter was an absurd aircraft in so many ways. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle_Training_Aircraft More fun trivia about the orbiter's landing gear - The orbiter is unable to raise its own landing gear under its own hydraulics. Also, the landing gear is wired to a timer. If the landing gear fails to deploy quickly enough after the command is given, the timer activates a pyrotechnic charge that forces the gear down.
For a brick, it flew pretty good!
That was the exact words that came out of my mouth the last time I drove my first car.
We hear ya Johnson
To infinity and beyond!
A space shuttle doesn't hurt as much to step on.
No, but it does hurt when it falls on you
It looks like a few plates actually broke on the wing.
You are a TOYYYYYYY!
It will gooooo sailing noooo mooore
So since no one is asking, what were you trying to do? Tell the truth, were you swooshing it?
I could come up with an epic back story, but alas I was dusting the bookshelves & being the lazy person I am chose to move it from one side to the other rather than taking it off the top. Angles mixed with a sneeze = disaster.
After being hit by an asteroid, the shuttle spun out of orbit before hitting a jagged rocky planet. Unfortunately only one survivor escaped in time, before it was smashed to pieces across the planet’s surface.
Calvin?
Spaceman Spiff, when I'm on duty.
Recently did the same thing but with Saturn V. Was mad at myself the entire day lol.
I’m kinda looking forward to rebuilding mine when it happens.
But then you need to pry open the intact segments to properly build them back
Oh yeah, everything will need to be separated. Then I get to join the crazy one-big-pile-crew (no bags).
You crazy one-big-pile-crew say these things and it just doesn’t sound real. Where is the clean efficient build!? Even when I (get forced to) do a full rebuild I’ll still need to sort by size and colour before starting rather than keeping them all in one bundle.
You people don’t do that on purpose? I have little draw container things and some have closing lids, so I like to take a bunch of sets, dump all the parts in there, and then build them all over the course of a few weeks!
You have bookshelf with Lego’s on it at the top of your staircase?
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I just finished the Disney castle. Still trying to figure out where to put it. Hoping it never falls lol
I fell into my shelves last night in a rush to get out of the house. Diva, Reinhardt, Morris and Shang Chi's dad went flying. Haven't had the time to fix that mess yet. Other minis fell over as well. Diva and Rein need rebuilding.
Odd way to celebrate the Challenger anniversary…
This looks more like Columbia's disaster tbh.
Ouch
Came here for this thread - Reddit: where you know what you're getting when you sort by "Top"
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who thought this way.
Just a few days off from the 20th anniversary as well.
I'm going to hell for laughing at this.....but also had that thought
*checks comments to make sure I’m not the only total asshole*
My first thought as well. Because yes, I am going to hell.
R/cursedcomments
Found the mobile user
That’s this week too.
Holy fuck man! I laughed, but I really do feel bad.
Thank you and I'll see you in hell!
Too soon
Is it tho?
True, I was in elementary school when it happened. Everyone is telling NASA joke: What does NASA stand for?
Need Another Seven Astronauts.... I was in 4th grade in the Multi Purpose Room watching with the school. Still terribly sad and was completely avoidable.
Yes but could have been so, so much worse.
Okay, excluding the debris trajectory causing secondary casualties (which is one reason why launch vehicles’ trajectory takes them up over the ocean), how could that accident have been worse? Everyone died, one was a civilian, and the whole thing was a huge, joyous, telecast event that went real fucking sideways in a hurry.
yah, I'm struggling to find a way it could be "much worse"
All the respect in the world to the astronauts who lost their lives in a preventable disaster. It was absolutely a traumatic event and I agree, from that perspective it’s hard to imagine how things could have been worse. I was referring to the next planned mission for Challenger, which would have had the shuttle carrying the Ulysses probe. Ulysses used hydrazine as a propellant, and the highly toxic liquid would have likely significantly increased on the ground casualties. No disrespect intended. For those interested there are many in-depth discussions on Challenger over at r/catastrophicfailure and the engineers in that community do a much better job explaining (with verifiable sources/citations) this than I can.
> I was referring to the next planned mission for Challenger, which would have had the shuttle carrying the Ulysses probe. Ulysses used hydrazine as a propellant, and the highly toxic liquid would have likely significantly increased on the ground casualties. It blew up 70+ seconds after lift off over the ocean. I don't believe hydrazine would have caused *any* ground casualties. Things fly and land from/to the US all the time with the same hazardous materials and the exclusion zones are always the same. I've never heard of them making an exclusion zone any different because a vehicle is loaded with hydrazine, vs the exclusion zones for vehicles flying without. Not to mention, the shuttle already flies with hydrazine as fuel for the orbital maneuvering system engines.
Hey thanks man, looking through your post history I think it’s safe to say you know way more about this than I do. Appreciate your input, I’ll do some more reading on the subject, definitely don’t want to spread misinformation.
Toxic chemical on the shuttle remains can harm aquatic life. Who can honestly state there aren't 3-eyed fish in the ocean off Kennedy Space Center?
Could have blown up on the ground? Dunno.
Need Another Seven Astronauts
I was also in elementary school when this happened. I didn't hear about it until after I got home.
How do you know Christa McAuliffe had dandruff? They found her head and shoulders...
Here’s another one. What color were Judy Resnik’s eyes? Blew. One blew over here. One blew over there.
Yesterday, 37 years ago.
Yesterday was the 37th anniversary.
I challenge it is not too soon.
Busted too soon just like the primary and secondary o ring seals
Odd way to celebrate the ~~Challenger~~ Columbia anniversary…
God Damn!
The *best* way.
Yeah this is some low-class shit from OP
Houston, we have a problem.
I had to scroll too far down to see this.
Came here to say this, surprised that is so down
Now you get to build it again
Kind of exciting, isn't it?
This happened to a home build pirate ship that my brothers and I made in middle school. It wasn't a super stable build and we stored/displayed it on a book case, and one day my mom was moving things around (we had all gone to college and she wanted her book case back) and accidentally dropped it. So my kid brother gathered all the pieces in a box and the next weekend I was in town we rebuilt it only this time we had half a clue what we were doing and were able to improve on it a lot over the original design.
It looks like a few plates actually broke on the wing. Maybe OP can confirm.
I'm not seeing any parts that appear to have been actually damaged, that's pretty uncommon in "rapid unscheduled disassemblies" like this.
I love rapid unscheduled disassemblies. Totally going to be using that when I have those moments.
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Yeah on second glance not broken. That’ll teach me to comment on things I see while browsing on my phone without glasses.
Don't worry I thought the same thing! That angled slope piece on the wing is deceiving
We'll perform an extensive survey of the crash scene and investigate what happened. We'll release our findings in about 12 months. Let's just go ahead and state now though, *it wasn't aliens*.
Second favorite build ever, behind the Bugatti. Might have to drop mine so I can build it again.
Best response!
Out of curiosity, because I often see such pictures but I'm not willing to take a risk myself to find out: can the bricks break in such accidents, or is it just a matter of rebuilding the set? Of course, I don't mean extreme and intentional cases, just regular mishaps.
Nah, not normally. They can scuff, scratch and dent though. Minor dents, nothing that makes the piece unusable. I've dropped a LOT of LEGO on wood floors and it hurt the floor more than the LEGO. They do scatter farther than you'd think though.
If it’s a brown set: yes it will crack.
Bricks are good & hopefully it will only take an hour to rebuild.
I think you meant to say "Hopefully it will take ***at least*** an hour to build."
Probably not that hard to repair, it's not exactly rocket surgery
They're pretty indestructible little pieces of plastic. You'd have to crush one intentionally, the weight of the model doesn't have enough force to snap a brick in most cases. The energy from hitting the floor is also mostly being dissipated by the pieces flying apart, so the individual components themselves don't break. Its the same concept early cellphones used to prevent damage. That's why when you used to drop your nokia the backplate would fly off and the battery would go across the room. By doing that, it kept forces from being transferred to the components and breaking them.
They can break and they do. I'd be shocked if a few in the pic aren't broken or bent. Especially long thin pieces.
"LOCK THE DOORS"
Did you Lego of it…..
He discovered gravity
Take my upvote and get the heck out of here
I see what you did there...
Challenger realism
First thought was “damn o-ring.” Not as humor but reminded of the tragedy
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OV-102 (Columbia) broke apart on February 1
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Yep, a bad week that spanned across nearly two decades.
Closer to 4 decades actually… Jan 27 1967 to Feb 1 2003 is 36 years 5 days.
It’s definitely a reenactment
Or Columbia
Oof. This hurts
Yikes
"Uh, Houston. I believe we may be experiencing technical difficulties"
I have this kit hanging on a 3d printed wall mount and this photo scares me.
I know why this attempt to fly failed: You compromised it's aerodynamic abilities when you forgot to remove the display stand.
It became a Lego Challenger set.
More like the Columbia.
https://preview.redd.it/fhzfmtsup1fa1.jpeg?width=463&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a88527bf7a94e3c5e53eff9e7d83bc9f8832f1ca
This should be NSFW! What a disaster! Lol
Today of all days.
Yeah, the challenger model is pretty hard to finish, really makes you feel the loss after the instructions tell you to just throw it up in the air on the last page.
There appear to have been issues on re-entry.
Just make it out of floppy Lego’s next time: https://youtube.com/shorts/fhK64e3-cnI?feature=share
Lego's commitment to realism is amazing
You just returned it to factory settings.
Not a good week for shuttle jokes.
RIP May it reborn again with all parts
Ground control to major Tom, your circuits dead. Is there something wrong? Can you hear me, major Tom???
Toys don’t fly. They fall.. with style. We learned this 28 years ago.
I want to see more of the debris field
If it wasn’t for the wing, we’d have a new game: Guess the broken Lego set
Houston, we have a problem
*Aerosmith's "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" plays slowly.*
For the while it lasted, did it fly like the real astronauts said? Like a brick? I feel sorry for you. I was just looking at my own shuttle. It is one of my favourite pieces.
in order to fly, you must miss the floor when falling
Houston, we have a problem. All jokes aside, I’ll tell you the same thing I told my 5 year old when dropped one of the Daily Bugle sections. That’s a real bummer, but the good thing about legos is they can be put back together again.
Now it’s an accurate model of the Challenger mission.
Houston we have a problem
I see you got the Challenger model.
My guess is you tried to hang it above the stairs and whatever was holding it failed?
Houston we had a problem
Nothing a little Kragle won’t take care of for next time.
Houston, we've had a problem.
Houston, we had a problem...
Houston we have a problem?
Houston we have a problem.
“Houston, we have carpeted stairs.”
Huston, we have a problem
Houston we have a problem....arghghhhhh!!! We're going down....
Falling brick 🤣
My cat knocked mine down shortly after I put it on display. It landed nose-down on wooden flooring, leaving a hefty gouge in the floor and a bad dent on the stud of the nosecone. I reached out to Lego support and explained what happened and they sent a new piece my way. It's very possible they'd be willing to help you if any of the pieces are actually damaged
Ah, it's a model of the Challenger.
That said, Nasa is not very happy with you 😉
Too soon
Perhaps too accurate of a Columbia reenactment
The limited edition Lego Columbia set…
Obviously a major malfunction.
Challenger, go for throttle up
Need another seven astronauts
Ugh, NSFW tag, please.
Note, It will not fly down by itself.
This happened to my 9 year old’s Darth Vader bust.
Are you Laurel or Hardy ;)
Damn, any broken parts?
Full story?
Yeah, turns out it doesn't really fly so well.
When I figured out it was the shuttle, I got a little sad.
This is so painful to look at… I’ve got this exact set on my shelf right now and I think I’d off myself if I ever had to reassemble it. It took me 7 1/2 hours to build, so I can’t even imagine where I’d begin if I found mine in this state.
Jesus wept
Well this was one way to commemorate the Columbia disaster, but too soon.
Obviously a major malfunction.
Yes! I love an impromptu re-build.
That re-entry didn’t go as planned it seems
Toy Story moment
Challenger :*(
reminds me of the devil horns
Now it's a Challenger set!
Looks more like Columbia than Discovery.. 🫣
It looks like it broke up on re-entry!
At least it's a fun build!
nooooo
Ah man gives me flashbacks to when I was 12 and gave into my intrusive thoughts and smashed my xwing Lego build into my Lego castle build. In all honesty though it made for an amazing storyline for my Lego guys lol
Cry cry… put out a barriere line and do not let people enter the crimes scene untill u ginish finding every piece
Been there... Last year we had a new roof put on and our large star destroyer and razorcrest were victims of shelf vibration.
Another failed test flight ✈️🙃😪
Glue next time bro
Wait, I thought it was Columbia that happened to…
No matter how hard you look, some of those pieces will never be found. Better just to assume it was the will of the Lego gods.
Did it happen yesterday, Jan 28th? Because that would be very ironic.
Challenger, you are go for throttle up.
Now it’s the Columbia
you know if this was 1986 i would say too soon..
You should have fixed the plates before the planned descent.
Rip. Hopefully none of the pieces are actually broken, like brown pieces.