CNN is reporting that NASA engineers are trying to identify an object spotted floating away from the Space Shuttle STS 124 earlier today. According to the news reports, astronauts spotted a rectangular object about 1 to 1.5 feet long floating away from the tail of the shuttle. Here’s hoping that everything is all right with the space shuttle. However a certain part of me cannot help but wonder whether that 1.5 foot long object could be Buzz Lightyear escaping?! Recall that during this mission Buzz Lightyear was to fly with the Shuttle as part of a Disney promotion. NASA’s current theory is that what fell off was a metal clip. I’m not so sure about that and wonder whether Buzz may have taken off in pursuit of Emperor Zurg.

Link: CNN

Image courtesy of Scientific American

I saw this article on Scientific American’s  website regarding the hard drive above.  It was recovered from the space shuttle Columbia, and the data itself on the drive was also recovered; this data helped to solve a physics experiment.  The drive was 99 percent recovered by OnTrack Data Recovery.

Now the image above has to be the worst I have EVER seen of a hard disk. This image and story should tell you to do one thing….YOUR BACKUPS!

Do you have similar stories?  Do you have not so similar stories?  Do I have to remind anyone what happened here??