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A Jew on Mars?
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| 03/17/06
| ANTHONY WEISS
Posted on 03/16/2006 1:48:19 PM PST by KevinDavis
When Jason Sherwin told his parents he wanted to be an astronaut, they weren't thrilled. Jews, they reminded him, "don't have a good track record" in outer space.
Notwithstanding the "Jews in Space" bit from Mel Brooks's "History of the World: Part I," they're right.
Arguably, the first Jewish astronaut was Elijah. According to the Bible, "a fiery chariot with fiery horses suddenly appeared... and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind." He didn't come back down.
In modern times, the first Jew in space, Judith Resnick, died in the Challenger explosion of 1986. In 2003, Ilan Ramon of Israel died when the space shuttle Columbia broke up.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronauts; jewpitur; jews; jewsinspace; mars; meshuganaarabs; space
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This is going to be an interesting thread..
To: RightWhale; Brett66; xrp; gdc314; anymouse; NonZeroSum; jimkress; discostu; The_Victor; ...
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posted on
03/16/2006 1:48:50 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: KevinDavis
To boldly go where No Jew has gone before.....
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posted on
03/16/2006 1:49:48 PM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(Are you not entertained? Are you NOT entertained? Is this not what you came here for?)
To: KevinDavis
Actually Jews think Elijah never came back, Christians know different.
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posted on
03/16/2006 1:50:21 PM PST
by
stevio
(Red-Blooded Crunchy Con, American Male (NRA))
To: MNJohnnie
Battlestar Ghhhkkghhalatica
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posted on
03/16/2006 1:51:29 PM PST
by
Tulsa Ramjet
("If not now, when?")
To: KevinDavis
Mmmmm... Jews in space....
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posted on
03/16/2006 1:51:48 PM PST
by
orionblamblam
(A furore Normannorum libra nos, Domine)
To: KevinDavis
Ilan Ramon was a pilot on the mission that took out Saddam's nuke facility in 1981.
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posted on
03/16/2006 1:51:49 PM PST
by
Sax
To: 1st-P-In-The-Pod; A Jovial Cad; A_Conservative_in_Cambridge; adam_az; af_vet_rr; agrace; ahayes; ...
Jews are from Jewpiter, and Muslims are from Uranus. FRmail me to be added or removed from this Judaic/pro-Israel/Russian Jewry ping list.
Warning! This is a high-volume ping list.
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posted on
03/16/2006 1:51:57 PM PST
by
Alouette
(Psalms of the Day: 79-82)
To: Alouette
Is this ping worthy for you list?
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posted on
03/16/2006 1:52:02 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: KevinDavis
In modern times, the first Jew in space, Judith Resnick, died in the Challenger explosion of 1986. In 2003, Ilan Ramon of Israel died when the space shuttle Columbia broke up.Do I smell a conspiracy theory here?
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posted on
03/16/2006 1:53:11 PM PST
by
Tokra
(I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
To: MNJohnnie
Sure - why not?
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posted on
03/16/2006 1:53:53 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: KevinDavis
... 'coz that's where the money is!
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posted on
03/16/2006 1:54:31 PM PST
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: Tokra; All
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posted on
03/16/2006 1:54:39 PM PST
by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: KevinDavis
.Who says there are no Jews in space?
Comment #15 Removed by Moderator
To: KevinDavis
The problem is when they start going into that rhythmic, head-bobbin prayer mode, they start hitting all kinds of shuttle controls, and well, things get to be a mess. (in jest, of course)
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posted on
03/16/2006 1:56:05 PM PST
by
Tulsa Ramjet
("If not now, when?")
To: orionblamblam
When did "Christian" become a Jewish family-name?
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posted on
03/16/2006 1:56:36 PM PST
by
L,TOWM
(Liberals, The Other White Meat)
To: Pheadra
What are you mesugina? It's cold out there and the rye, it's not fresh!
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posted on
03/16/2006 1:57:03 PM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(Are you not entertained? Are you NOT entertained? Is this not what you came here for?)
To: KevinDavis
When Columbia broke up - my first thought was that it was a terrorist action because one of the astronauts was Jewish. I'm not totally 100% convinced that wasn't the case.
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posted on
03/16/2006 1:58:01 PM PST
by
Tokra
(I think I'll retire to Bedlam.)
To: L,TOWM
> When did "Christian" become a Jewish family-name?
When her name was Ivanova. Just ask her uncle Yossel.
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posted on
03/16/2006 2:01:01 PM PST
by
orionblamblam
(A furore Normannorum libra nos, Domine)
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