Friday, November 24, 2006
Tyurin Hits the 6, Like McAvoy Hits the 3
Not even with the help of Romeo, could Tin Cup hit a golf ball as far as Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin did this Wednesday. Tyurin, located in an international space station approximately 220 miles above the northwest Pacific Ocean, used a gold-plated six iron to hit a golf ball into orbit.
The club used by Tyurin is produced by Element 21 Golf Company, who is paying the Russian space program an undisclosed amount for this publicity stunt.
There is some controversy this incident though. Nataliya Hearn, president of Element 21 claims the ball should return to earth in a few years after it has traveled a billion miles or so. However, NASA lead spacewalk flight director Holly Ridings is calling BS on Hearn. Apparently, "NASA's calculations are that golf balls would only stay up two to three days, which would put the drive closer to a mere million miles."
Regardless of who is right, Tyurin needs to spend more time on the range and less time in space...his shot supposedly sliced to the right like a banana peel.
3 Comments:
Tin Cup was better than Happy Gilmore. What kind of name is Happy anyways.
what would be very funny is, if the ball will hit some satellite and making a damage for it, maybe shutting down the GPS devices all over the world, and by that causing a huge catastrophe?
It was the 7-iron not the 3-iron. Remember, McAvoy qualified for the U.S. Open only using the 7-iron.
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