To boldly go... to jail

[halloweenjack]

Receiving transmission from Boing Boing: A lot of kids around my age got an itch to become an astronaut after watching the moon landings; I'm guessing that none of us, however, thought that we'd ever go on an entirely different sort of "mission". The thing about the diapers is especially disturbing; how long does it take to run into the bathroom while you're stopping for gas? Ick.

Comments

[a-nightengale.livejournal.com]

I saw that this morning and just shook my head. I thought astronauts when through a whole slew of tests, including psych profiles and the like, to screen out ones who would do things like this. Ah well, I guess anyone can snap. But the diaper thing, eeew.

[jackolantern.livejournal.com]

That was one of the points that Tom Wolfe made in The Right Stuff: that the first group, the Mercury 7, went through all of these physical and psychological tests--and most of them were veteran test pilots that had already proven their mettle--only to be stuck in a tin can with very little control over their flight. Looks like standards have slipped.

[bleakdesolation.livejournal.com]

And who wants to sit there stinking and marinating in waste products? Just WRONG

[jackolantern.livejournal.com]

And who wants to sit there stinking and marinating in waste products?

Well, certainly not me. (But, thanks to the ever-unfolding wonder that is the Internet, we know that they're out there.)

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Is this the first time an astronaut's gotten into this sort of mess?

(No, I don't count Buzz Aldrin. The guy he punched out had it coming.)

[jackolantern.livejournal.com]

Is this the first time an astronaut's gotten into this sort of mess?

The Orlando Sentinel article sez, "Her arrest may be the first-ever felony charges filed on an active-duty astronaut, according to the space agency." Active duty. Interesting wording, that.

(No, I don't count Buzz Aldrin. The guy he punched out had it coming.)

Buzz Aldrin: Two-Fisted Astronaut!

Yeah, moon-hoax-conspiracy types drive me nuts. I've got a story idea related to that; I should just sit down and write the sucker.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Do that. If it's comics-script format, let me know when you're done.