I want to jump whenever I’m in a high place like a stadium, at the top of a flight of stairs or on the edge of a cliff. I figure that I’m going to fall anyway so I may as well do it on my own terms. Luckily, I’m also a little bit of a chickenshit and have never followed through.
Today I was thinking about astronauts. And spacewalking. Can you imagine being in outer space? Tethered to your shuttle by just a little cord?
The thought makes my breath hitch.
I would yank it off before I could think twice about it and just float away. The adrenaline rush you’d get the second after you pulled your umbilical cord from the spaceship would be unreal!
I’m so glad I’m not an astronaut.
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Unfortunately according to physics and the lack of friction (air), yanking on the tether would cause you and the space shuttle to hurl towards each other until you met with a thunderous “whump.” Okay, not even thunderous. The lack of air prohibits the propagation of sound waves, although you and the astronauts inside would hear it.
I’m a professional party-pooper.
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Chickie said:
March 19th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Well damn. I figured I’d go whizzing off into space with no chance of rescue if I pulled the cord loose.
Okay, I’d cut my cord loose and then give my spaceship a giant kick so I’d float away from it.
Yeah. First you tell me that leftover electricity doesn’t exist and now this. Professional party-pooper!
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RebTurtle said:
March 20th, 2009 at 3:32 am
As my mom always said, ” I don’t cheat fair!”
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March 19th, 2009 9:14 pm
Thankfully, RebTurtle is lots of fun in many other ways or else I would have gotten rid of him 16 years ago!
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Chickie said:
March 22nd, 2009 at 5:49 pm
I think you are probably a very tolerant person. ;)
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March 19th, 2009 10:30 pm
I’m not sure how to respond to that…….without silly string.
:p
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Chickie said:
March 22nd, 2009 at 5:50 pm
You people have too much fun!
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March 20th, 2009 3:31 am
I wouldn’t want to be Neil Armstrong either, he’s way old. But I wouldn’t mind being an astronaut! An environment in which my huge boobs would feel WEIGHTLESS. That would be fabulous!
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Chickie said:
March 22nd, 2009 at 5:50 pm
The weightless boob part would be nice! It always amuses me to see them floating around in the pool like little islands when I’m in there.
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March 20th, 2009 7:51 am
I think I’m glad you’re not an astronaut as well!
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Chickie said:
March 22nd, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Good. My choice to not pursue it as a career has been validated.
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March 20th, 2009 11:56 am
I think we’re ALL so glad you’re not an astronaut, you crazy person.
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Chickie said:
March 22nd, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Knowing that people are glad I’m not an astronaut makes me glad. Earth IS the place for me!
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March 20th, 2009 9:37 pm
You say the things we think. How do you do that, Chickie?
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Chickie said:
March 22nd, 2009 at 5:53 pm
It happens if you forget to wear your foil beanie.
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March 20th, 2009 11:15 pm
I don’t think it is that bad because there is really no “up.”
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Chickie said:
March 22nd, 2009 at 5:54 pm
There is no “up” but there is also no oxygen. That would be like falling. Pulling the plug and giving in to suffocation.
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March 21st, 2009 10:20 am
Thing that weirds me out most about th thougt o bein a astronaut is th fackt that in zero G you gots no sense o up or down.
Whats THAT evn like?
Like, am I standin on my feet or standing on my head?
None o th above!
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Chickie said:
March 22nd, 2009 at 5:55 pm
I wouldn’t be bothering with figuring out up or down. My eyes would be closed because my mouth would be open so wide while screaming my last lung full of air out.
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March 22nd, 2009 3:56 pm
I have a real problem with heights. I just freeze. I wonder if that works in space. I mean you so high up, height is almost irrelevant.
I’m going to go away and think about that for a while.
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Chickie said:
March 22nd, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Don’t think too hard. It might make you hyperventilate. I almost did the first time I imagined it.
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March 22nd, 2009 7:57 pm
With the crazy shit that goes through my head I KNOW better than do anything even remotely high-risk! Ha!
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Chickie said:
March 23rd, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Yeah, it only takes a second to implement a hair-brained idea and it could be your LAST idea! I feel you!
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March 23rd, 2009 10:11 am
Are you old enough to remember the Russian cosmonauts who where up in space and couldn’t get home? Once ground control figured out there was nothing that they could do, they had their wives come by and say goodbye to them on the radio. The best way to never run out of air us to stay someplace where there is plenty of it!
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March 24th, 2009 4:09 am
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