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Feel the fear and do it anyway

Posted by londiscarpenter at 08:28 AM on July 16, 2009 Comments comments (1)

What Happens In space Should Stay In Space

Posted by londiscarpenter at 01:20 PM on November 01, 2008 Comments comments (3)

 

In July of 2007 I read an article that NASA was spending 19 million US dollars for a Russian built space toilet.  A NASA spokesman said that it was a bargain price compared from building one from scratch.  Not being a plumber myself, what do I know?  Why not have a swank potty in space, perhaps even with a stack of old Buck Rogers comics floating around.

 

 

 

 

http://www.techmeme.com/070708/p2#a070708p2

 

 

 

 

Here's my problem.  On the Today show news this morning they reported that the thing already broke, and I felt that bristling tingle of hairs on the back or my neck rising as a warning that all is not safe.  This surely cannot end well.

 

 

 

 

So I did what I always do in a crisis.  I wrote a poem.  Hope you enjoy reading it to pass the time that we have left before

 

 

That foul, possible fatal, fecal asteroid hits.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nineteen million NASA's price

  To build its crew a safe device

 So astronauts could have a place

  To handle pee and fecal waste

 

 And men of space would have a loo

  To do what other men must do

 These millions bucks NASA would pay

  So no spaceman would float away

  

These men were safe from their own farts

  With leg restraints and other parts

 And all was safely put in place

  A porta-potty out in space

  

But something?s wrong I heard today

  An amber rain on its way

 No place to hide no place to run

  A loo in space has come undone


From far in space a cry unheard

  A spaceman hit by a flying turd

 

 

 


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