Need Another Seven Astronauts. :D

Can someone kick this a-hole off this site PLEASE!

Like they used to say on "Dinosaurs!", "We're going to need another Timmy."

Seriously, this is what we get for our romantic need to put humans in space. We'd have stations on the moons of the outer planets and a ship halfway to Alpha Centauri (and zero dead astronauts) if we'd let computers do what they are good at:

1. Working in a vacuum
2. Not needing food and water
3. Weighing a lot less than humans
4. Not having to come home every few months to avoid losing bone mass
5. Basically, being a whole lot cheaper, lighter, and less delicate than humans.

immane1 -- I wasn't trying to offend you. Lighten up.

:rolleyes: What kind of response were you expecting? I usually enjoy somewhat "twisted humor" but..........

NASA stands for New Airwalk Shoes Accepted.
BUSH stands for Butt Ugly Stupid Human.

immane1, I hate it when people like you complain about something as innocent as a joke. It's like people trying to ban the name 'The Two Towers' after the WTC thing. It's really sad.
Yes yes people died, woo, yeah, but we can't change that. Making jokes is a ay of getting by. It's in the past, live in the now. Yes, I've just woken up and I'm in a mood

is it ok if I talk about toyota's? caaaaauuuuuuse ALOT of people have died in toyota's... I don't want to tread into "OH NO HE DITTANT!" territory...

Knock yourself out

My favorite is Pontiac. I shan't repeat it for now, and some will know why.

NASA: Nice Attempt at Something Awesome
Bush: Born Under a Bad Sign

(And if anyone misses that joke, I don't want to hear about it.)

Nike: Now I Killed Ephraim
GOP: God's Own Party
RIAA: Really Ignorant Assholes Association
NRA: National Reapers Anonymous
MOAB: Mondo Obscene Ass Blaster
THC: Totally Hackin' Cool, Too High Cecil, Takin' Hits Cuz', Someone Pass the Bong ... er ...

(damn)

Hey! It's 4:20!

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Tiassa :cool:

We seem to be offended by jokes about recent tragedy, yet we have no problems telling jokes about distant tragedies. For example, it's verboten to tell a joke about the destruction of the Space Shuttle, or the World Trade Center, but it's perfectly acceptable to joke about the Battle of Waterloo, or the Siege at Stalingrad. Given this pattern, it's inevitable that people will eventually joke freely about the World Trade Center. I never understood this aspect of human behavior. I'm not comfortable joking about human tragedy, past or present, near or far.

On the subject of the astronauts who died in the space shuttle; it was a tragedy, as is any unexpected loss of human life. But these people sought a glamorous and dangerous career of their own volition. When a wheel falls off an ox-cart, one simply puts it back on. An equivalent mishap on a spacecraft generally results in the death of the occupants. We didn't "choose straws" to determine who had to risk their lives by going into orbit. So, I don't consider these astronauts "heroes," anymore than I consider the people who will die in traffic accidents while on their way home from work this evening to be "heroes."

Lastly, I agree with Fraggle Rocker's above post. The money spent on manned space missions is a vast drain on the money we could be spending on far more worthy space exploration. Apologists for the shuttle who point out that it can be used to repair the Hubbell forget that if we weren't funding a vastly expensive shuttle program, we could send up an improved Hubbell each time the old one developed a glitch. The manned space program is little more than a vastly expensive PR event in frantic search for a reason to exist. There's simply not enough need for zero-gravity experiments to justify a shuttle, or a manned space station. The "real" science in space is done by the unmanned projects, such as the Voyager, Galileo and the Hubbell.

Just my opinion,
Michael

careful...science is always done by people and never my unmanned objects...(haha...i am so funny...i hurt myself from laughing)

Hi Monkey,

Yes, I understand. That' why I wrote "unmanned projects," instead of "unmanned objects." A "project" is a human undertaking.

Regards,
Michael

i'm dyslexic...well when i need an excuse for my lazy reading...

Monkey,

No problem. I do it myself all the time.

Cheers,
Michael

anyway...i agree totally with you anyway...the shuttle was a big waste of money...

One of the biggest tragedies of 9/11 is our loss of humor. What do you call 100 accountants at the bottom of the Atlantic? A good start. It used to be a funny joke. People don't find it funny now that someone has gone and done that. Which suggests an odd relationship between humor and honesty, but that will take me weeks to build on at best.

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Tiassa :cool:

Originally posted by tiassa

Bush: Born Under a Bad Sign

(And if anyone misses that joke, I don't want to hear about it.)

It took me a second.

NASA: No Arab Shoes Allowed

I hope no one is making fun of the dead astronauts, who can't defend themselves...if there is one that person deserves gangrape.

Never Above Shuttle Altitude.

Never Arrive Safely Again
-cs

I would eventually get this story told to me as an e-mail urban myth; I know a guy who worked at NASA/Ames, who sent it to my brother months before. It is apocryphal, though apparently some NASA engineers (those of my friend's association, especially) classify the story as "entirely possible".

I'm sure many of you have heard it before, but it's worth a revisit since we're swapping NASA jokes.

Apparently before the new shuttle project was scrapped or put back or whatever it was that happened a couple years ago, NASA had occasion to test one of their units. The test involved re-entry flight; what would happen if, say, the shuttle struck an albatross on it's way in? (Stop me if you've heard it before ... oh, wait, don't.)

At any rate, NASA looked around to see what data existed on avian-aviary crashes, and eventually got around to inquiring with Boeing. "To tell you the truth," says the Boeing man, "all we do is shoot the plane with a turkey."

"I beg your pardon?" says the NASA man.

"We have this air cannon, and to simulate a bird striking the airplane, we go to the grocery store and get a turkey and fire it at the airplane."

This is a brilliant idea, and low-cost. The NASA engineers put their heads together. They get the gear assembled and fire the cannon. The turkey smashes through the hull, tears apart the control panel, shatters the pilot's seat, and lodges in the back wall of the cockpit. The engineers are horrified. They nearly panic. They get all their data together and comb through it. Some structural error. Perhaps a material failure? What? What? What?

So finally the NASA man calls his contact at Boeing and tells him of the lab disaster. "We don't know what happened!" he frets. "We just can't figure it out."

"Send me the relevant data and we'll take a look at it."

So the NASA man compiles a bunch of numbers and files and sends them across the wire to Boeing. The next morning, the NASA man gets an email that simply reads, "Thaw the turkey."

The irony of it is that my friend would eventually move north and take a job with Boeing. Urban legend or not, it's still one of the funniest things I've heard. But yes, I'm told by my friend that this story is quite securely within the range of possibility.

In fact, he's quite sure that they've done the same thing at Boeing before.

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Tiassa :cool:

Nearly All Stuffed Attempts

Not A Single Adventure

Noteworthy Aspirations Scuttled Again

Nixon Always Said Arthritic

Nobody Awed Some Angry

No Apollo Space Astronauts

Now Adios Space Age

Nitwits Argued Spending Again



This is hard.

Originally posted by Thor
immane1, I hate it when people like you complain about something as innocent as a joke. It's like people trying to ban the name 'The Two Towers' after the WTC thing. It's really sad.
Yes yes people died, woo, yeah, but we can't change that. Making jokes is a ay of getting by. It's in the past, live in the now. Yes, I've just woken up and I'm in a mood

So THIS is what happens when one goes away for a few days.

Thor, I guess I partly agree with you on this one. I would probably have no problem joking about a skydiver or bungee jumper who died, because they were "flirting w/death". The same could be said about astronauts I suppose. But innocent people dying from what appears to be negligence is always sad. I guess I was in a bad mood that day.

Nasty Ass Stank Astronaut