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February 25, 2007
sometimes you get the space madness
"The documents, obtained this week by The Associated Press, say the astronaut's crewmates should bind his wrists and ankles with duct tape, tie him down with a bungee cord and inject him with tranquilizers if necessary."
Posted by jennj at February 25, 2007 08:08 AM
Clue-ments:
Yes, but as we have seen in the past, this doesn't prevent the real danger of aliens from bursting out of the astronaut's chest.
Posted by: Headpigeon at February 25, 2007 10:51 AM
hp - so true. duct tape would be completely useless in that situation.
Posted by: cf at February 25, 2007 04:17 PM
The fun part is trying to restrain him/her so that you can apply said duct tape, 'cuz folks bounce around cabins REALLY WELL in zero-G!!!
(Things get even more interesting when an on-board physician or another member of the crew has to perform CPR on an astronaut. Just think about it for awhile and you'll start to see the myriad difficulties. Then think about it some more and it'll give you a few headaches. We wrestled with that for awhile when I worked on Station.)
Posted by: steveb at February 26, 2007 03:49 AM
steve - haha! God, I can only imagine what that would be like to to try to figure out...or even try to do!!!
Posted by: cf at February 26, 2007 09:10 AM
You know, this is exactly what they did to Rockhound in Armageddon.
That movie was great (and realistic)!
Posted by: Iwan at February 26, 2007 12:31 PM
Iwan - You had to bring that movie into this somehow. Curse you.
Posted by: cf at February 26, 2007 06:08 PM