Astronauts Gone Wild!!!

[The Central Scrutinizer]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/06/astronaut.arrested/index.html

Apparently, they were both orbiting the same body.

[patchbunny]

As long as she doesn't hit the History Eraser Button, we'll all be ok.

[CFLarsen]

Already discussed here. (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=74128)

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Already discussed here. (http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=74128)

We needed a fresh start.

[Beerina]

We needed a fresh start.

And a better title.

[shemp]

And a more intelligent group of idiots to discuss it.

I've already pre-ordered my DVD.

[Overman]

Not too many guys can actually make a girl feel like she is on the moon.

[Darth Rotor]

Not too many guys can actually make a girl feel like she is on the moon.
If you make whoopee in space, does the earth move? :confused:

Fraternization for fifty (http://forums.randi.org/showpost.php?p=2318450&postcount=27), Alex. :p

DR

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Out on bail: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/06/astronaut.arrested/index.html

Can we assume her career is over? I mean, who would want to go into space with her and take the chance that she'll blow a gasket?

[Crossbow]

Capt. Kirk never had this problem because he was smart enough to only fool around with one woman at a time.

;)

[Darth Rotor]

Out on bail: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/06/astronaut.arrested/index.html

Can we assume her career is over? I mean, who would want to go into space with her and take the chance that she'll blow a gasket?
I think the other astronauts are hoping she'd blow something else . . .

DR

[steverino]

When her husband found out, he said, "Bang! Zoom! To the moon!"

[BPSCG]

Capt. Kirk never had this problem because he was smart enough to only fool around with one woman at a time.Nope.

Miri and Yeoman Rand.

[SteveGrenard]

Astronaut to be charged with attempted murder
By John Johnson Jr. and Alan Zarembo, Times Staff Writers
9:40 AM PST, February 6, 2007

Florida authorities were planning to charge a NASA astronaut with attempted first-degree murder charges for allegedly attacking a woman that she considered her rival for the love of another astronaut, officials said today.

Jail spokesman Allen Moore told Associated Press that Orlando police were in the process of filing the more serious charge against Navy Capt. Lisa Marie Nowak, who flew last summer on a shuttle mission to the International Space Station.

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-ex-020607astronaut,0,7578124.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Life imitates art, well somewhat:


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0650625/

Mr. Monk and the Astronaut

An astronaut, nearing a mission, is at a girlfriend's place where she reveals to him that he's in chapter five of her new book. Apparently, it's a sexy book. Since the astronaut may also be running for political (office) soon, he obviously don't want this book published. I say "obviously" because he is shown putting poison in her drink.


A heavy sedative actually; he then propped her up on a chair with a noose around her neck and left her alive but asleep. He manipulated a neighbor to use a garage door opener to pull the noose tight around her neck effectively hanging her. This happens while he is up in space with a perfect alibi.
Reviewers describe the alibi as airtight..

[rikzilla]

Lisa Marie eh? Something tells me Mom was an Elvis fan...

-z

Oh and Beeps...Miri and the scrumptious Yeoman were under the influence of the "grump" disease....I wonder what Lisa Marie's excuse will be?

[Crossbow]

Nope.

Miri and Yeoman Rand.

Nope.

Yeoman Rand was written out of the series before Kirk could fool around with her.
Unless you can somehow work in the encounter that occurred in the episode entitled The Enemy Within which involved a half of Kirk and the encounter in question was not mutually consensual.

And Kirk did not fool around with Miri.
At the end of the episode, entitled Miri, Kirk flat out said that he did not like older women, and besides, Kirk was never even alone with her (which has always served as a good clue as to what really happened between Kirk and his various women).

[BPSCG]

Nope.

Yeoman Rand was written out of the series before Kirk could fool around with her.
Unless you can somehow work in the encounter that occurred in the episode entitled The Enemy Within which involved a half of Kirk and the encounter in question was not mutually consensual.But that episode did clue you in to what Kirk's id was thinking about Rand.

And Kirk did not fool around with Miri.
At the end of the episode, entitled Miri, Kirk flat out said that he did not like older women, and besides, Kirk was never even alone with her (which has always served as a good clue as to what really happened between Kirk and his various women).Har!

Rand was trying to get Kirk to check out her legs in that episode. Kirk started coming on to Miri when McCoy pointed out that she was attracted to him. And Miri arranged for Rand to get kidnapped when she perceived Rand as a rival for Kirk's affections.

Irrelevant whether Kirk was interested in either of them. That episode was about ten minutes shy of becoming a hair-pulling, nail-scratching catfight over Kirk.

Just like the story in the OP. All that was missing was the pepper spray.

[Darth Rotor]

Irrelevant whether Kirk was interested in either of them. That episode was about ten minutes shy of becoming a hair-pulling, nail-scratching catfight over Kirk.

Just like the story in the OP. All that was missing was the pepper spray.
On Planet X, they don't sell pepper spray. :)

DR

[Crossbow]

But that episode did clue you in to what Kirk's id was thinking about Rand.

Har!

Rand was trying to get Kirk to check out her legs in that episode. Kirk started coming on to Miri when McCoy pointed out that she was attracted to him. And Miri arranged for Rand to get kidnapped when she perceived Rand as a rival for Kirk's affections.

Irrelevant whether Kirk was interested in either of them. That episode was about ten minutes shy of becoming a hair-pulling, nail-scratching catfight over Kirk.

Just like the story in the OP. All that was missing was the pepper spray.

BPSCG is wrong about everything including this.

In the case of 'Star Trek' as in life, when a man looks at a woman's legs and/or is sorely tempted to fool around with a woman, then that is hardly the same thing as actually fooling around with her.

In spite of the exceptionally witty "Har!" comment and the duely noted lack of pepper spray, this point is quite relevant since it was directly addressed in my original post which BPSCG has been responding to and the OP of the thread since it does involve a man who was actually fooling around with two different women at the same time.

Note: in the 'Star Trek' case the original the plan was for Kirk and Rand to eventually develop a romantic relationship, however that plan was soon abandoned in favor of a new plan that would involve Kirk having romantic relationships with several different women none of which would work out in the long term in order to make the Kirk character more interesting (this transition is noted in the episode The Conscious of the King).

[Moon-Spinner]

What a Space Cadet!


You just know that somewhere, some congress-person is hatching a plot to use this in an effort to defund NASA.

[Ziggurat]

I think there's an aspect to this which isn't getting nearly the attention it deserves, despite the central role it plays in the story.

I refer, of course, to astronaut diapers. Discuss.

[rikzilla]

You know what this implies? That somewhere on the ISS there is a locker filled with soiled Astro-nappys.

Ewwwww

-z

[Ziggurat]

You know what this implies? That somewhere on the ISS there is a locker filled with soiled Astro-nappys.

Ewwwww

-z

It gets worse: they can't open a window to air out the place either!

[Moon-Spinner]

Yes, when I read about the diapers (so she wouldn’t have to make any pit stops), I started hearing this bad 1950s science fiction music going through my head - wooooOOOooo…

[Jimbo07]

It gets worse: they can't open a window to air out the place either!

And when the final life support system is in place, they'll be drinking their own pee... to be fair, the water extracted from their waste. No room for the weak of stomached in these heady early days of spaceflight. :D

[Dave1001]

Yes, when I read about the diapers (so she wouldn’t have to make any pit stops), I started hearing this bad 1950s science fiction music going through my head - wooooOOOooo…

Wow, I didn't make the astronaut diaper connection and this story until just now. We've come a long way from the astronaut worship of the '60s.

[SteveGrenard]

Wow, I didn't make the astronaut diaper connection and this story until just now. We've come a long way from the astronaut worship of the '60s.

Some NASA nappy lore from the Yale Daily News:


In all my years of film-going, story-reading and news-scouring, I’ve never before come across an outlaw so intent on the swift commission of crime as to actually don a diaper. Astronauts are taught by NASA to put mission first, ahead of personal concerns or a swollen bladder. Armed with this training, Lisa Nowak has rocketed around the planet, spacewalked for hours, and now soiled herself on Interstate 10.

It turns out that astronauts regularly wear diapers during three phases of spaceflight: liftoff, re-entry and spacewalks. Called Maximum Absorption Garments (MAG), these high-tech potty-pants are special: They are larger than normal adult diapers and, according to NASA, considerably more advanced.

Disposable diapers represent a $22 billion industry worldwide; for decades, manufacturers have touted their latest commercial diaper as revolutionary in both absorbance and comfort. Is it possible that NASA quietly trumped them all, and for years has been quite literally sitting on the future of incontinence protection? What is this space-age wicking material for galaxy-sized messes?

A million full-bellied toddlers need to know.
http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/19803

I wonder if Nowak visited a diaper changing station before her pepper spray confrontation.

[luchog]

And when the final life support system is in place, they'll be drinking their own pee... to be fair, the water extracted from their waste. No room for the weak of stomached in these heady early days of spaceflight. :D

Baldrick: Should we drink each other's or stick to our own?
Edmund: Is Captain Rum joining us for this bring-a-sample party, or is he going to sit this one out?
Percy: Oh no, he's been swigging his for ages. He says he likes it. Actually, come to think of it, he started before the water ran out.

[delphi_ote]

Best. Thread title. Ever.

That's all. :boxedin:

[Schneibster]

I liked both "Astro-nut" and "Lust in Space" better than this one.

[Schneibster]

You know what this implies? That somewhere on the ISS there is a locker filled with soiled Astro-nappys.

Ewwwww

-zNawwww, they just throw 'em out and let 'em pollute space.

[robinson]

http://kongregate.com/games/richpixel/diaper-dash

And now, the game...

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Predictably, she's been fired: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/03/07/nasa.nowak.ap/index.html

[Moon-Spinner]

Predictably, she's been fired: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/03/07/nasa.nowak.ap/index.html

Gee, who would have seen that coming!!!

From the article: "NASA officials said Nowak's dismissal did not reflect the space agency's belief in her guilt or innocence. The agency said it lacked an administrative system to handle the allegations."

I'm sure her Love triangle, plans to get rid the "Other Woman", mental instability, and general "Conduct Unbecoming" had nothing to do with the firing - It was the wearing of diapers that did her in!!!

[Alt+F4]

Predictably, she's been fired

And she'll probably sue for wrongful dismissal since she hasn't been convicted of anything (yet).