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Chad Coffman writes "Salon has quite the story up. It seems Russian astronauts are trolling for
supermodels as passengers for their space program." I guess Tito nor Shuttleworth were cute enough for Valery Korzun. May I suggest Courreges or Gaultier for space-suit designer? I'll leave the weight allowance jokes as an exercise for the reader.
Hereby I troll for Natalie Portman in space !
Naked and pertified of course.
This would be rather expensive, because a pertified Natalie Postman is heavier than a non-pertified Natalie Portman, even naked.
But I think it's worth the money.
Owner of a Mensa membership card.
.. with a supermodel!
I'm a perfectionist but I'm trying to cut back.
NASA said the other gyroscopes were working fine and that the failure would not affect the station's navigation and control. But the bad unit will need to be replaced, and the soonest that can happen is early next year.
they have 5 gyroscopes that they consider "major components", yet it will take em till next year till they can fly one up?
what, they dont have any backups ready to go for critical items and have to manufacture it first?
great planning
It seems Russian astronauts are trolling for supermodels as passengers for their space program.
:)
Why would supermodels have to be passengers in the space program? They can easily fly up there to the space station, like their mentor, the superman! I've never seen him pay for a seat in the shuttle!
attempting to get the most bang for their bucks.
Guess I failed. Sigh.
Who needs to puke up to lose a little weight on Earth, when you can puke up and lose it all going into space? :)
They'd be better off not eating at all. Afterall, puking could shoot them in the opposite direction and smash their head into something.
WWJD.... for a Klondike bar?
Apart from all the jokes, in such an isolated environment it sounds pretty natural. Humans aren't completely isolated creatures from other humans, and for most of the population the company of someone of the opposite sex - just hanging around the place - is a wonderful comfort regardless of being supermodels. Keeping each other mentally stable in such a long term trip sounds as important as having leet space skillz :)
So where do I apply?
a grrl & her server
I just have that silly scene from 007 "The man with the Golden Gun" with whoever the B girl was at the time pressing the solar plant controls with her butt.
It stays in front of my eyes and does not want to go...
Baker's Law: Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it
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I do not think that anyone will let _that_ model (S.C.) anywhere close to a spaceship. Her movies are a sufficient demonstration of her intelligence.
El Macferson - more likely. But she is not in the business any more so she does not count.
Baker's Law: Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it
http://www.sigsegv.cx/
It seems Russian astronauts are trolling for supermodels as passengers
It makes good sense. In terms of payload, probably you can send 2 supermodels for same weight as Tito.
ATTN NASA:
Maybe sending me up the space is not such a bad idea. (A gnome shorter than 5'3" who can use both micropipette and computer program. )
If you are built like a supermodel, no-problem. I can envisage that a more normally shaped woman may suffer from problems due differential changes in direction. Some ladies (insert your favourite XXX link) may even knock themselves out when unrestrained.
...pound for buck, you could ship two supermodels into the orbit for the price of one.
;-)
That's what I call a good proposition, everybody is happy.
"I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them." -- George H. W. Bush
Um, didn't they already make a zero-G porn movie? I think it's The Uranus Experiment.
I am not sure... Most of the female astronauts have been married or just downright plain-jane... I think I might have to double bag it for the bragging rights!!!
Regular women have had little problems getting adjusted with space travel. The problem, when you start looking at Supermodels in space, is that you must discriminate between two different, distinct types of supermodels: the waifs and the chicks with augmented breasts.
Waifs are popular amongst engineers... their light weight mean that you can fit heavier, more practical cargo on board that would normally be sacrificed due to launch considerations.... stuff like Mah Jongg sets, a kegerator, and Russian millionaires (which are, ironically, the reason Supermodels are being considered for space travel).
Those with augmented breasts must be discriminated against, no matter the behest of the millionaires. Intra-craft space travel would be nearly impossible to manage.... The fact of the matter is that in space, even with the relatively wightless environment, a human body will spin around it's "center of gravity". The effect of spinning to the left or right is still unknown, because we are not sure how silicon implants will react to such an environment. However, it is bound to be far less disasterous than a top-bottom spin. This is best simulated by throwing a hammer through tube of computer equipment. A model's feet will probably not survive the trip, and mental damage is inevitable if the feet get hooked on a loose computer or cargo crate.... Fortunatley, it is questionable if such mental damage of a supermodel is a valid concern, at least until said models age to their 23rd year.
Anyone who makes a crack about brains and beauty never occurring in the same person should look into the life of Hedy Lamarr. Oh, there a pictures too. Ms Lamarr was one of the patent holders of an important ww2 patent. She also sued Corel for using an uncredited likeness of her on the cover of one of their flagship software products.
technician: how many Gs can you take?
super-model: I only wear one string at a time.
technician: huh? oh, never mind.
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
This would help with any sagging problems.
A win-win situation.
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people. - Jack Handey
I don't think it needs zero-G, some ladies have enough problems jogging w/o a high-tech sports bra.Super-models are generally not so well endowed so they wouldn't have this problem.
Um, Natalie a super model? Perhaps the moderator was too inflexible. However, humorless and inflexible moderation has been far too frequent recently. As you say, many of us can correct during M2.
Supermodel and ersatz space tourist Kate Moss today was killed during launch. She would have been the first supermodel in space.
A NASA spokesman said, "Apparently, the g-forces were too much for her bony, underfed frame and she was ripped in half by the pressure."
"It's just as well, because I don't know how she would have survived a week with those horny, lecherous astronauts on the ISS. Either way, she would have been ripped in half."
Aha! Have they asked Britney Spears yet?
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If you think big enough, you'll never have to do it.
Sad that the very mention of "Supermodel" gets this kind of coverage. I've read this excuse for a story in like 6 different places...the guy made a joke, that's it. Cindy Crawford is not going into space.
Then again, maybe the story is a Russian beaurecrat (sp) actually making a joke!
Has any one else noticed that this is actaully an AP news wire, not a Salon article?
Is any one else irritated by the use of the phrase "quite the" in the submission?
Julie Payette - and a hot chick may I add
In a television interview, she was granting a journalist a formal visit of the Space Station (grounded, in one piece before being dismantled and put to space or a life-sized model, I don't remember), and the jounalist did ask about the possibility of sex in space. She said that serious studies about it have been done but hinted that the only way to have sex in space, is to have one partner tied up
Funny.
"In space, no one can hear you cream."
Table-ized A.I.
They think it was a broken gyro... You see, principal filming can't begin until the babes arrive... then the creature will kill everyone, in ones and twos: