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Space Wedding Successful
The Llama King writes "Love transcends all, including gravity, the atmosphere and orbital altitudes. According to this story at the Houston Chronicle, "Yuri Malenchenko didn't let the fact that he's living aboard the international space station stop him from marrying his bride, Ekaterina Dmitriev." The bride was at Johnson Space Center near Houston, while the groom circled 240 miles above her. The honeymoon will have to wait."
So, did he kiss the camera or the television screen when the pastor said "the groom may now kiss the bride"?
I'm the Devil the Windows users warned you about.
Get back to me when the couple is in space together. And post videos.
The unofficial
Making a marriage work till death
do you part - now *that's* a challenge.
"One of these days Alice, POW! To the moon!"
If you don't understand that, you don't watch enough TV Land or just entirely too young.
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
I'm sorry, but Successful!?
How the hell would it be unsuccessful - are there technical issues related to communicating vows over a radio link or something... although how did they sign the register?
And consummation, well, you don't want any problems on re-entry I guess - fly me to the moon baby!
What, were you expecting a crash or something to interrupt the wedding?
Weddings are almost always successful. On the other hand, living with shackles for the rest of your life... =P
don't both parties have to sign the marriage register and get it witnessed together for a marriage to be valid?
As a married man I can guarantee him that after about a year he'll be begging to be allowed back on spacestation.... alone.
Thats just funny...oh wait,ummm. This could be my only chance to marry a supermodel.
I'm moving to Texas!!!!
I was under the impression that it's pretty easy to annul an uncomsummated marriage.
Infuriate left and right
We know who is on top now, but one has to wonder about the honeymoon..
Too bad she can't come up for the honeymoon. If ya know what I mean.
--- to swing on the spiral...
That must have been one brutal pregnant pause to wait for the radio lag between "Do you take..." and the "I do". I wonder if for a second the thought passed through the poor guy's head..."Is she thinking about it?" I didn't see in the article where he was in orbit. Heck, instead of 380km he could have been more like 6,400 km away or so. Did they wait to do the ceremony until he was more or less overhead? I wonder if this is the farthest apart two people have been when they were married, other than when MJ married Lisa Marie Presley.
I find it interesting that the Russian Space Agency objected to this because they thought he was showboating and it would be an unappropriate, yet seem to have no problem launching boy-band members into space if they have the coin.
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." - Thomas Sowell
I can say that 240 miles away from the wife is about as good a honeymoon as you can get.
It has been 15 minutes since a story about love & marriage appeared on Slashdot, and no one has been modded "Insightful" or "Informative" yet.
The unofficial
I too have received offers to get hitched with a hot russian woman from a long distance!
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
Damn slashdot!
I come here to forget about how horribly lonely I feel... I'm a grade 'A', by the books, no bloody doubt, computer nerd. And as such, I have NO love life... so why must you speak of marriage? I can't even get a damn girlfriend... I'm sitting here reading slashdot to try and forget how miserable an existance I have writing code for a living, with absolutely no social life... and you have the nerve to post a marriage story???
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Programming is like sex... Make one mistake and support it the rest of your life.
Many states allow this. The primary purpose is so people in the military who have been called to duty can marry their significant other left back at home ("Gee, I might get killed over here and never see you again... I want to get married now just in case I never get the chance to see you again....") So a serviceman over in Iraq can marry his girlfriend who is still here in the states. Proxies are allowed, too.
Stupid people make stupid things profitable.
Even if you're in space, you cannot escape getting married. So much for my "i'm out of town" excuse.
Simple. Just open the airlock. They're fucked.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030 810/161/4xwoo.html
Get ready for John Gray's next book.
Cause noone can hear you scream.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
Are you positive it would be the first space screwing? We've been sending people up of both sexes, the cameras don't cover EVERY part of the ship and you have to imagine the novelity of it all would have a lot of appeal for either sex.
I know it would be one of the *first* things I'd want to try in space.
Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
He said the ceremony was totally lacking in atmosphere.
Hot wife
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I know it would be one of the *first* things I'd want to try in space.
Haven't had much luck on Terra?
had a helicopter hovering above the ISS throughout the ceremony.
Nah, those astronauts aren't like real people. Most are straight as an arrow - you have to be to be in good enough physical and mental shape to do that. Most are likely married. It's highly unlikely that on any given mission, there would be two willing and able participants. It's not like they recruit crack whores for astronauts. Maybe if a married couple were sent... maybe. I'm sure there's rules against cracking open a six pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon and seducing your fellow astronauts.
Though, it would be cool if some porn stars volunteered and were accepted on such a mission. Science would benefit, somehow, as would the world of entertainment.
"Would it kill you to put down the toilet seat?" -- Maya Angelou
How long until someone runs in a California gubernatorial recall election while aboard the International Space Station?
The list of candidates for this upcoming recall election was finalized yesterday, and people in space are hardly represented at all. There are 155 candidates on the ballot, so you would think that at least a few of them would be in orbit around the earth right now. But not a single one of them is currently in free fall at the moment, and in fact, not a single member of this opportunist whack-pack has ever been in space at all. In fact, the most space experience any of them has involves a starring role in a Hollywood movie set on Earth and Mars.
Davis, for his part, has never been in space either, and has a consistent record of not hiring spacemen to work for him. In fact, whatever the outcome of the recall election, one thing is certain: the future governor of California will not be running the state from orbit. Is this the kind of future we want for California? Think of the children.
There may be issues with California state law. In a transparently cynical attempt to keep the spacefaring community out of the California political process, the state may require that the candidate appear in person to sign papers registering for the ballot. The 65 signatures can be collected remotely, and the $3500 transferred by wire, so why should the signature remain as an insurmountable problem? I'm sure reasonable states like Texas allow a person to register for the ballot while in space. Other roadblocks thrown in the path of astronauts seeking to join the recall ballot include a 15-day California residency requirement. Davis supporters argue that this is simply to restrict the election to California residents. But when your orbiting spacecraft has been entering and leaving the borders of the state of California at least once a day for hundreds of days, it becomes pretty hypocritical for someone to insist that you haven't racked up your 15.
Voters are tired of "politics as usual". It's time for someone with a fresh perspective on the issues in Sacramento. From 240 miles up, moving by at 17000 miles per hour, through a little glass porthole.