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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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 Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:04 pm Post subject: First Bizarre, Unexpected Story of 2007... |
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| Judge sets bond at $10,000 for NASA astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak at a Florida court hearing where she was charged with attempting to murder an alleged love rival. |
"NASA Astronaut" probably ranks among the most difficult positions on the planet to get into -- psych evals for extreme stability, etc.
Yet at the end of the day, the numbers get even them... |
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yoda
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
Location: Incheon, South Korea
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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Genuinally shocked as well . . . especially the part where she wore a diaper on her 1000 mile drive so that she wouldn't have to waste time with bathroom stops. That is driven . . . no pun intended.
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| "NASA Astronaut" probably ranks among the most difficult positions on the planet to get into -- psych evals for extreme stability, etc. |
It reminds of all of the failsafes in Dr. Strangelove, which in the end failed. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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I don't know if they still do it, but for a while they would chain shut the main orbiter door while the shuttle was in space. It was prompted after an experiment failed. The scientist/astronaut on board had trained for half a decade to conduct his experiment in space and nothing worked. He confessed he seriously felt like opening the hatch in space and killing himself.
I'm skeptical those psych tests are really indicative of much. |
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Nowhere Man
Joined: 08 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:55 pm Post subject: ... |
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If only she'd waited till they were both on the ISS...
and deep-sixed her HAL-style.
The book rights and movie options would have been out of hand.
In space everyone can hear you scream |
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