http://news.yahoo.com/staying-alive-rescue-mission-disco-era-satellite-204533994.html
Hm, old codgers, ancient satellite needs repair to get it back into communication so it can be retasked … somehow this is sounding familiar. :dubious:
“Space Cowboys”?
Yup. I guess the old joke applies - if I wrote this as a book/movie nobody would believe it.
I do admit that if we can slot it back into it’s old job, we should - no sense in wasting a satellite if it will still function.
I have always said and I’ll say it again: “Space Cowboys” was a nothing but a thinly veiled shameless ripoff of “Salvage 1”, the '79 TV series starring Andy Griffith.
Quoth the erstwhile sheriff turned junkman: “I want to build a spaceship, go to the moon, salvage all the junk that’s up there, bring it back and sell it.”
Despite the ingenuous premise and stellar cast, the show was scrapped.
“Salvage 1” didn’t make it because they ran out of ideas after the pilot. After going to the moon, what else could they do to top it?
Turns out there was better money in lawyerin’.
I thought this was going to be about Tom Cruise’s new movie. Didn’t Jake Gyllenhal star in it not too long ago but on a train and not in a tank?
My thoughts exactly.
I thought it was going to be about the new Godzilla movie. Didn’t we just have one?
If you are a fan of any of the leading men, then I suppose you may enjoy this film.
But, I really did not enjoy it at all.
The leading men were all very old and difficult to recognize as the suave younger leading men they once were. So, I’m sorry to say, but I think you really would not be too interested in this one.
Oh my! I never heard of such a ting! Never, ever! And I thought that I knew all of Andy Griffith’s work. But, I guess not.
Me too. Except I was thinking of Groundhog Day. Or an episode of The X-Files called Monday. Or that episode of Buffy where they say it’s like that episode of The X-Files, along with an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
I thought it was going to be about the upcoming movie with a group of kids saving [del]the[/del] a lost and cute litte extraterrestrial, including a preview scene of fleeing pursuers by bicycle. You know, [del]E.T.[/del]Earth to Echo. 
Ok, to be fair, Echo’s powers seem more impressive than E.T.'s. Better to prevent an “ouch” than to cure it. 