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Inebriated Astronauts - No Problem! NASA has outlived it's usefulness anyway
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| 7-28-07
| MrArbitrage123
Posted on 07/28/2007 9:31:06 AM PDT by MrArbitrage123
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EuGpfT308zY
I think NASA is becoming less relevant with every year anyway.
TOPICS: Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: astronauts; drunk; lohan; nasa
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To: cripplecreek
"This sounds like overzealous hype about things that probably went on in the 60s and 70s."I went through the museum area NASA has set up in Houston a few years ago. All I can say is that you'd have to get me passing out drunk to get me in one of those cramped capsules. I'm not sure I could stand it for more than a few hours, let alone days. Very small and tight.
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posted on
07/28/2007 10:41:03 AM PDT
by
2111USMC
To: plain talk
You are irrelevant. NASA lives on.<
Just like all the other Frankenstein Bureaucracies of the Federal Government.
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posted on
07/28/2007 11:07:05 AM PDT
by
Kozak
To: cripplecreek
yep. So typical of the feminization of the times we live in. How many incidents did they mention - what two? So what? Why is this even a story? Next they will be reporting on sailors in nuke subs that .... shock ... came back to their sub drunk from shore leave. They may even report on Bill Clinton getting a BJ while conducting foreign policy ... on the other hand perhaps not.
To: Kozak
Why is this even a story? Like what? the U.S. Military. Every big institution is beauracratic. Comes with the territory. NASA is doing a core function only government can do and while nothing is perfect NASA is a great example of American know-how and can-do attitude. They deserve our respect. So I dismiss the scoffers.
To: plain talk
Just for a little perspective, let’s not forget that dogs and monkeys have flown into space.
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posted on
07/28/2007 11:22:25 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
To: MrArbitrage123
In 1968, I watched “2001-A Space Odyssey” looking forward to the day I could sit by the pool of a Hilton orbiting in space, looking at the Earth through the jet age plastic dome roof, having got there on the Pan Am Space Clipper.
Ah, the dreams of youth!
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posted on
07/28/2007 11:27:03 AM PDT
by
exit82
(I have a gut feeling: Michael Chertoff is a jerk.)
To: cripplecreek
If youve ever read Chuck Yeagers autobiography youll get the impression that he and those around him flew experimental aircraft while they were half lit all the time. When he broke the sound barrier he was flying with a broken rib he didnt tell his superiors about. He had gotten drunk the night before and fell off a horse or something similar.Times must have changed: I was stationed on two airbases during my tour in Germany, and I spent a fair amount of time at the Officers Clubs there. I never saw a pilot take a sip of adult beverages.
Off, damned sarcasm, off!
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posted on
07/28/2007 11:29:47 AM PDT
by
Night Hides Not
(Chuck Hagel makes Joe Biden look like a statesman!)
To: MrArbitrage123
NASA is one of the few relevant things our government funds.
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posted on
07/28/2007 11:31:12 AM PDT
by
counterpunch
("The Democrats are the party of slavery." - Cindy Sheehan)
To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball
Launch is a very stressful period and even if they are sober, there is absolutely nothing for them to do until the shuttle is safely in orbit. Ya think that ANYONE would climb into a big, movable BOMB's nosecone and NOT be drunk to do it!?
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posted on
07/28/2007 11:46:59 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: EQAndyBuzz
Especially since all I have to do is sit there and pray for the first few hours while my body is torn apart from the g-force. Actually; the LAUNCH g force is much less than the re-entry.
But; wouldja rather be blown to bits going up, or crispy crittered coming down?
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posted on
07/28/2007 11:51:03 AM PDT
by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: vietvet67
With Space Food Sticks to soak it all up.
To: MrArbitrage123
All the more reason to stick with robots—who don’t have to come home.
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posted on
07/28/2007 11:59:07 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
(Down with Mel Martinez)
To: Night Hides Not
Like my grandfather always said. He only drank once in his life....from 1944 to 1947.
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posted on
07/28/2007 12:01:23 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Greed is NOT a conservative ideal.)
To: MrArbitrage123
Well, I don’t know about the shuttle but I would have had to be drunk to even sit on top of a Saturn V. I got to go up on the Mobile Launcher tower and look down on Apollo 12 while it was setting on the pad. You are a long way up and the wind is blowing. Just sitting there after the Mobile Service Structure has been moved away, with only the sheer bolts holding you up, would be scary enough but when the engines fired it must have been terrifying. There were escape cables running from the Mobile Launcher tower to the ground about a quarter mile away from the pad. I cant imagine someone actually sliding down those things. The starting point for the slide must be about 400 feet above the end point.
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posted on
07/28/2007 12:06:36 PM PDT
by
fewz
(I prefer to get my fear from professional fear-mongers not government officials with a bellyache.)
To: fewz
There were escape cables running from the Mobile Launcher tower to the ground about a quarter mile away from the pad. Somebody must have tried those once or twice to see if they would work. If the cable brake failed you would be doing about 100 mph at the bottom. Not quite freefall terminal velocity.
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posted on
07/28/2007 12:14:39 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
To: fso301
...What mission put the shuttle on a westward trajectory over central florida??? The Atlantic is to the East....Optical illusion. Missions to the ISS actually go Northeast.
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posted on
07/28/2007 12:19:43 PM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(Boomchakalakalaka Boomchakalakalaka)
To: MrArbitrage123
How many times have congressmen been drunk while in session?
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posted on
07/28/2007 12:33:26 PM PDT
by
weegee
(NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
To: MrArbitrage123
Maybe you should avoid video recording yourself while drunk too. :)
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posted on
07/28/2007 12:36:55 PM PDT
by
anymouse
To: FReepaholic
Missions to the ISS actually go Northeast. That has always been my understanding.
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posted on
07/28/2007 12:40:02 PM PDT
by
fso301
To: cripplecreek
If youve ever read Chuck Yeagers autobiography youll get the impression that he and those around him flew experimental aircraft while they were half lit all the time. When he broke the sound barrier he was flying with a broken rib he didnt tell his superiors about. He had gotten drunk the night before and fell off a horse or something similar. It is clear that JFK was under the influence of prescription pain killers while he was running the country, no transfer of power during his medical treatments. Additionally there are those who claim to have smoked pot and done LSD with JFK. A woman who made those claims was later killed.
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posted on
07/28/2007 12:40:16 PM PDT
by
weegee
(NO THIRD TERM. America does not need another unconstitutional Clinton co-presidency.)
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