July 26, 2007

  • WELL, *I'D* SURE BE DOING IT BEFORE A RIDE LIKE THAT...

    "A panel reviewing astronaut health issues in the wake of the Lisa Nowak arrest has found that on at least two occasions astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so intoxicated that they posed a flight-safety risk."

    If the flight surgeons were that intoxicated, they shouldn't have been evaluating astronauts.

    "The panel, also reported "heavy use of alcohol" by astronauts before launch, within the standard 12-hour "bottle to throttle" rule applied to NASA flight crew members." [bad use of commas not mine]

    So where's the proble.... Oh wait, I see now. The 12-hour "bottle to throttle" rule means they're supposed to not drink during that 12 hours.

    Read about it here.

Comments (5)

  • Mr. Callihan...do you know you're awesome??

  • bwahaha...

  • I think it would be interesting if one could find the statistics on average amount of alchohol consumed within six hours of flight time for fighter pilots in WWII.

    Just, you know, for perspective and stuff.

  • Talking about the bad use of commas, you should have seen the book Juliet and I read while she was here. On a whim, and definitely for a joke, we bought one of those horrid Harlequin Romances to read aloud to each other. We laughed until we cried. Not only was the plot terrible, the punctuation was the worst we'd ever seen. This writer (I only HOPE she went by a pen name) ends paragraphs with commas.

  • Perhaps these astronauts should be issued FUIs (Flying under the influence) or at the very least LUIs (Launching under the influence). I mean, think how the movie Apollo 13 would have changed if they had all been drunk. "Nope *hic* no problem here, Houston!"

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