Crack found in foam of space shuttle's external fuel tank; Launch in doubt...
Heavens to Betsy, what has happened to our once-noble space program? I mean, we expect this of rock stars, professional athletes and even elected mayors of Washington D.C., but now we have someone in the space program trying to smuggle crack into outer space on the space shuttle? Where will the madness end? Oh, we're all human, but there was a time when it really meant something to be the creme de la creme who were plucked from obscurity for entry into the space program. Alas, no longer.
Also, there was a time when those selected for our space flight program would have had the sense to know that crack rocks would have burned up in the foam shell of the shuttle in the heat produced in achieving escape velocity. Tsk tsk tsk.
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Oh my god. You don't know how close I came to blogging the exact same thing. ROFLMAO - XXX
I'd have to smoke crack to get into the shuttle...
zelda - *L* I might have guessed, but I'll bet you didn't because you're smarter than I am!
ranger tom - For real - I'd need total sedation for that kind of ride. Getting onto roller coasters, strapped in and clunking up the first big hill I always think "this is a perfectly stupid thing to do--what if I DIE?"
Um, I don't want to say "Happy Fourth", cause I keep getting visions of the ULTIMATE firework, the shuttle, going kaboom.
Been there, done that with the Challenger. I never want to see something like that again.
(sh...okay, happy 4th, but don't tell.)
CP.
I'm glad you blogged on the event too. I was gone, picked up my cell, read the news, saw that headline and immediately thought the same thing! Crack!!!! OMG!!! ;)
cp - ew ultimate firework - creepy. Yeah, not a good feeling to see that mess.
shpprgrl - Great minds float down the gutter together, I always say!
I don't know... for one, I think they need to find an alternative to this foam crap that keeps breaking and cracking if you look at it funny.
For two, I don't see the need to go into space. Can't we put that money into our problems closer to home instead?
I think that's how they get the international cooperation going on up there in the space station. Otherwise, the Americans would still be standing on one side of the room and the Russians on the other, just staring, like a junior high dance.
mauser*girl - What's amazing is my dad told me today that when they did their space walk to inspect the exterior of the shuttle, they found bird poop that survived the trip out of the stratosphere. Amazing, innit?
becky - *LOL* This is an hilarious take on the whole thing. Crack - the ultimate icebreaker! I'm picturing bird-chested, be-pimpled awkward geeky jug-eared astronauts shrinking into corners fearful that someone will notice them, and more fearful that no one will.
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