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Against whom, Martians? 
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You laugh, but I’ve had nightmares about that kind of thing.
Imagine that you and your buddy Buzz are exploring the Moon for the first time. When you get back to the LM, it’s gone. It’s been dragged away, but the tracks don’t lead to anywhere conclusive. What the hell would you do?
[QUOTE=Zabali_Clawbane]
Yep, my bad. hangs head Nowak and Oelefein did attend a Winter Environment training session in Quebec in January 2004. (Not my research that provided that link, that’s thanks to Mr. Steve Huff, crime blogger and Opera Tenor at large.)
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So was there any evidence that they’d fraternized as it were? If so, she must have been hoping he’d try for a reentry.
Turns out “Yo mama is an astronaut” *is *an insult after all.
[QUOTE=tdn]
You laugh, but I’ve had nightmares about that kind of thing.
Imagine that you and your buddy Buzz are exploring the Moon for the first time. When you get back to the LM, it’s gone. It’s been dragged away, but the tracks don’t lead to anywhere conclusive. What the hell would you do?
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This happened to John Carter once, and maybe it was that HG Wells guy.
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad]
So was there any evidence that they’d fraternized as it were? If so, she must have been hoping he’d try for a reentry.
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Only her ambiguos statements as to their relationship, and the picture of her standing beside him, glowing.
[QUOTE=Pushkin]
The BBC confirm the wearing of a nappy/diaper and add that she was also armed with a steel mallet in addition to the airgun and knife.
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After 900 miles, I think the diaper would have been sufficient.
Hmm. Mental note: Don’t date astronauts. Co-workers may be insane.
[QUOTE=Ogre]
Whoa there. Attempted murder. Nobody died.
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IANAL, but I’d think that even attempted murder wouldn’t be a slam dunk in this case.
My alarm clock, tuned to NPR, woke me up today with:
“…police say the astronaut will be charged with attempted kidnapping. In other news…”
I have to say, I wasn’t expecting that.
[QUOTE=E-Sabbath]
Remember, all astronauts wear diapers in spacesuits. Or, at least, the last time I checked they did. It’s about as unusual for one to wear one for a long drive as it would be for me to have a spare operating system somewhere around my person.
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Maybe she found she liked it a little TOO much. Maybe she found diapers to be a kinky turn on.
Am I the only person dying to see a picture of the other woman?? I need visuals!
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant]
I odn’t get it unless it’s a caption for the pictures. 
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:rolleyes:
So there are a bunch of astronauts out on what amounts to SERE training for astronauts: How to Survive if your Shuttle soft-lands in WayLostistan.
:dubious: Yeah, that’s gonna happen.
Anyway, there they are, camping in the wilderness, with a whole bunch of NASA-approved survival gear, and the local Science Fiction Geek Club is having their weekly meeting. “Hey, guys, it says here in the paper that those astronauts are having another training session! Let’s go see if their camp is unguarded!”
Madcap antics ensue involving stereotypical nerdy geeks wandering around in the wilderness at night. Eventually they find their way to the encampment.
A. It is guarded. No love. Darn. They collect signatures.
B. It is unguarded. w00t! “Hey, guys! Look! It’s an official NASA Canteen!”
That better?
[QUOTE=Spectre of Pithecanthropus]
IANAL, but I’d think that even attempted murder wouldn’t be a slam dunk in this case.
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My understanding is that they only added that because the judge was rather nonchalant with the original bail arrangement. I actually don’t think it will stick, either. Pepper spray is not attempted murder, regardless of all the other crap she was carrying.
She needs to be launched into a psych ward. Poor thing…she’s off the beam.
[QUOTE=Ethilrist]
:rolleyes:
That better?
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I was more worried about the Martians stealing our canteen technology. They would no longer need those canals, and if able to carry potable water about, they could build spaceships and walking machines, and invade earth!
I’d love to comment, but can’t stop laughing about the whole thing.
This story has a little bit of everything, for everybody–well done, Lisa et al!
<snorts>
Wow. That sounds like a discarded plot thread from Douglas Coupland’s All Families Are Psychotic. “Nah, too outlandish and melodramatic.”
tdn:
Or even worse, Space Clamped.
[QUOTE=E-Sabbath]
Remember, all astronauts wear diapers in spacesuits. Or, at least, the last time I checked they did.
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Don’t know if they wear them for launch still, but even Skylab in the early '70s had a hold-yourself-down shitter and hose, while the Shuttle has one of those, as well as a vulva-shaped vacuum piss funnel. Mmm.
[QUOTE=Larry Mudd]
Wow. That sounds like a discarded plot thread from Douglas Coupland’s All Families Are Psychotic. “Nah, too outlandish and melodramatic.”
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When I first read that link I thought it said, “All Females Are Psychotic”…hey, wait a minute…
[QUOTE=jjimm]
Don’t know if they wear them for launch still, but even Skylab in the early '70s had a hold-yourself-down shitter and hose, while the Shuttle has one of those, as well as a vulva-shaped vacuum piss funnel. Mmm.
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Iremember my father pointing out while watching TV from skylab that they urinated in their clothing.
Perhaps the diapers come into play during eight hour space walks.