Thursday, July 26, 2007

What would you do?

If you were strapped to enough explosive power to spread you over several hundred square miles in a 30+ year old gizmo built by the lowest bidder that had once before gone ker-plooie? According to a report released today, some of our astronauts faced this situation and proceeded to get shitfaced.
At least twice, astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so drunk they posed a flight-safety risk, an aviation weekly reported Thursday, citing a special panel studying astronaut health.

The independent panel also found “heavy use of alcohol” before launch that was within the standard 12-hour “bottle-to-throttle” rule, according to Aviation Week & Space Technology, which reported the finding on its Web site.
It is a good thing that they don't have to do very much at the start of the flight and science has shown that pure O2 can do wonders for the wobbly kneed.

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