There is absolutely no truth to the rumour circulated at coffee this morning that the failure of Hubble's Advanced Camera power supply was due to impact from pieces of a Chinese satellite
I have, however, not been able to refute rumour that a golf ball sized object may have been responsible...
That will teach them not to use a six-iron in Low Earth Orbit
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When that guy was due to hit his golf shot, I got a phone call from some NY area radio
station, looking for a comment or opinion. When I told the reporter to call me back in
half an hour after I'd done a couple of calculations, she laughed and said
"Oh you physicists and your numbers...". Like it's some kind of personal eccentricity...