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RE: Now that's just plain ....
> From: Joe Smith
> Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 2:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Now that's just plain ....
>
>
> "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g.r.AHEM@AHEM.AMEM.DOT-AHEM> wrote
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> >> From: Dave Korn
> >> Is it only me, or does anyone else think that the NASA astronaut
> >> who's just been arrested over an attempted crime-of-passion...
> >>
> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6335947.stm
> >>
> >> ... bears a strong resemblance to Sideshow Bob in her mug shots?
> >>
> >> It's the hair that does it!
> >>
> >
> > Now that you mention it I do see a resemblance. All kidding aside,
> > where do I get some of them Space Diapers(tm)? A thousand
> mile drive
> > without a "pit stop"? That'd save me a lot of time every year.
> >
> I have read that it is highly unlikely that she actually had
> the offical NASA version.
It's also highly unlikely that an astronaut would flip out, drive a thousand
miles across country (wearing any sort of diaper), and try to murder an Air
Force captain, yet here we are.
> They are very expensive, and NASA is unlikely to allow her to
> keep them at home.
NASA can't even keep their metric and English units straight; I seriously
doubt that a determined, crazy astronaut would have much difficulty lifting
a few Space Diapers(tm).
> See last paragraph of:
>
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17034568/site/newsweek/
>
> "The diapers they use today are a modified adult diaper,
> except you just pull it up like a pair of shorts" (I.E.
> Similar to very large "training pants".
>
Right: Space Diapers(tm)! Far more disturbing in that article is the TMI
explaining how we beat the Russians to the moon:
"When astronauts walked on the moon there was a kind of spandex trunk but
the fecal and urine collection devices fitted into the trunk . the spandex
tights just held them into place"
"Devices." Yikes on a bike.
> Now it is true that some people wear these things for reasons
> other than incontenence, usually out of nessesity, but
> sometimes for reasons of convience.
>
And sometimes for reasons of <british_accent>MURDER</british_accent>.
> See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaper#Other_examples
>
That's all a load of ancient history jibber-jabber. It's the 21st century,
and we now have Space Diaper(tm) technology. They work in zero-G, in a
vacuum, upside-down, and even underwater. NASA can't keep this breakthrough
to themselves forever, and when it finally does leak out, it's freedom baby
YEAH!!!
--
Gary R. Van Sickle