The Right Stuff

[KaskadskyjKozak]

 

Astronauts wait their whole career for a chance to fly to space. Many never even get assigned to a mission. How hard is it to forgo drinking the night before that once-in-a-lifetime chance?

WTF?

[TREETOAD]

I guess it's not as hard as they pretend it is

[sirwoofalot]

With proper training, both physical and mental, anything is possible.

[Dechristo]

some of 'em always screw the pooch

[underworld]

if i were about to go into space, i might want a drink too

[kevbone]

if i were about to go into space, i might want a drink too

 

So true

[dt_3pin]

It's like my pops told me - if you study for the test drunk, you gotta take the test drunk.

 

 

[lI1|1!]

who cares they're just trained monkies pushing a button i'm sure they can do it drunk.

[No. 13 Baby]

Idiots, puffing the chronic would be much better than booze on a space flight.

[billcoe]

If you ever read the great Tom Wolfe book which you used for the title of yer thread "The Right Stuff", instead of watching a stupid, piss poor yet incorrect PC, F*ed up, watered down version of the movie, I'm sure you will figure this shit out on your own.

 

Get the book. Read it twice. Question answered. In spades. Not kidding. You will get your question answered, learn about the roots of popular culture and what is really important. Basically, you get everything except a reach-around happy finish.

 

The book. Read twice. Good luck

 

Bill

[billcoe]

yer welcome.

[gslater]

If you ever read the great Tom Wolfe book which you used for the title of yer thread "The Right Stuff", instead of watching a stupid, piss poor yet incorrect PC, F*ed up, watered down version of the movie, I'm sure you will figure this shit out on your own.

 

LOL. Being a space geek, that's one of my fave books, and even the movie is one of my faves, having seen it dozens of times. I found it amusing when this story broke, and the CNN headline said something like "Astronauts Don't Show the Right Stuff". Made me chuckle, because actually, drinking extensively prior to flight (and at lots of other times), is EXACTLY in keeping with the tradition of The Right Stuff...

[G-spotter]

its a lot easier to drink when gravity is there to keep it in the glass for you

[chucK]

Couldn't you drink beer by just pouring it out and carefully sucking on a big floating bubble of beer...

 

 

 

ohhoho yeah!

[bstach]

Couldn't you drink beer by just pouring it out and carefully sucking on a big floating bubble of beer...

 

Pouring requires gravity.

[archenemy]

Gravity is not your friend

[i_like_sun]

It's like my pops told me - if you study for the test drunk, you gotta take the test drunk.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Does the same go for Mari-jua-anna?

[AlpineK]

I've heard the same thing said about pot.

 

 

I'm in space and I'm stoned. You guy's should come up to the space station we're going to have a raging party.

[billcoe]

If you ever read the great Tom Wolfe book which you used for the title of yer thread "The Right Stuff", instead of watching a stupid, piss poor yet incorrect PC, F*ed up, watered down version of the movie, I'm sure you will figure this shit out on your own.

 

LOL. Being a space geek, that's one of my fave books, and even the movie is one of my faves, having seen it dozens of times. I found it amusing when this story broke, and the CNN headline said something like "Astronauts Don't Show the Right Stuff". Made me chuckle, because actually, drinking extensively prior to flight (and at lots of other times), is EXACTLY in keeping with the tradition of The Right Stuff...

 

Exactly! For me, the book is on the top 100 best of all time. The movie, to me, did not make that exact point Wolf was aiming at, in fact, it seems to show the reverse.

 

To anyone who likes to read, defiantly read the right stuff before you open the last Harry Potter book: my opinion anyway.