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07-27-2007, 03:31 AM
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Drunk Astronauts
From here, a story about astronauts driving drunk.
I have two questions. 1. Who was the designated driver? and 2. What are they going to crash into up there anyway? NASA's latest blunder? Astronauts driving drunk TU THANH HA From Friday's Globe and Mail July 27, 2007 at 12:51 AM EDT Considering how image-conscious NASA is, the news couldn't have been more bizarre yesterday with the disclosure that some astronauts once blasted into orbit while blasted. The bombshell, first revealed by the magazine Aviation Week & Space Technology, is outlined in an internal report NASA is to make public Friday. But to some former managers at the space agency, it was no surprise. They spoke of a looser-ruled era in past decades when such drunken transgressions could have happened and been accepted by compliant flight surgeons.
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07-27-2007, 03:58 AM
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living the good life
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"Shit dude I just missed that asteroid."
"Dude that wasn't an comet..." "...it wasn't?" "No dude it was an asteroid!!!" "Sweet dude!!" "I'm so tired, dude, but I can't even tell what time it is out here..."
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07-27-2007, 04:10 AM
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OOoooh...asteroids!
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07-27-2007, 04:51 AM
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The future is unwritten
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You'd have to get me pretty drunk to make that trip.
1-They're so well trained they could do it in their sleep. 2-Huston is watching everything they do up there with a microscope. 3-The critical stuff is done by computers for most of the trip. 4-They're John Wayne mother fuckers, so no problem.
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07-27-2007, 06:35 AM
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 They did the Duke's mother?! How is that possible, what with their ages ........ oops, I see now. 
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07-27-2007, 10:04 AM
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why so serious
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"Dude, where's my space shuttle"
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07-27-2007, 10:27 AM
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It's funny 'cause it's true!
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The upside down margaritas are hell in zero gravity.
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07-27-2007, 01:41 PM
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The first response was "Tang." That was quickly followed by "Vodka." This made me wonder "If orange juice and vodka is called a screwdriver, what do you call orange juice and Tang?" 
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07-27-2007, 01:42 PM
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does not trust the white man
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A rocket driver
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07-27-2007, 01:44 PM
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maybe a BileDriver?
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07-27-2007, 01:46 PM
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It's funny 'cause it's true!
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Hammer(ed) time.
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07-27-2007, 01:54 PM
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why so serious
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07-27-2007, 05:08 PM
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Mooning is always a problem with drunks.
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07-27-2007, 07:36 PM
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The astronauts were only capable of a bit of attitude adjustment in orbit ... the real driving was pretty much confined to things like landing the LM. Quote:
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07-27-2007, 08:02 PM
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The future is unwritten
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Maybe a little salt water to lick off the back of his hand?
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"When you're shipping 10 million computers a year, even IBM does not have enough mothers to ship one with every computer. So you've got to build motherhood into the computer. . . . If for some reason, we make some giant mistakes and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter sort of a Computer Dark Ages for about 20 years."
- Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer (Playboy, 2/85)
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