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ChadTower:

Dissecting chicken wings... that's pretty low budget.  Guess what they probably had for lunch that day?

Dartful Dodger:
Lost Bag Forces Change of Plans for Spacewalks

"Oooops, I accidentally dropped the bag containing the tools we'll need to install the urine into drinking water filter.  I guess the guys on the next mission will have to install it."

patrickl:
Good news for next Christmas. If you eat a tad too much turkey you can claim you need two seats your next flight within Canada.

Apparently in Canada disabled people have the right to bring an attendant and that person can travel for free to accompany the disabled person. Now the seriously obese people want in on this deal:
Yahoo: Obese have right to 2 airline seats


--- Quote ---people who are "functionally disabled by obesity" deserve to have two seats for one fare
--- End quote ---
The saying for something like that would be "only in America", but I guess Canada wants to "belong" too.

patrickl:

--- Quote from: Dartful Dodger on November 19, 2008, 06:39:22 pm ---Lost Bag Forces Change of Plans for Spacewalks

"Oooops, I accidentally dropped the bag containing the tools we'll need to install the urine into drinking water filter.  I guess the guys on the next mission will have to install it."

--- End quote ---
They haven't fixed the urine recycling unit yet  :P

Space shuttle astronauts in race against time to fix recycling system that converts urine to drinking water

Dartful Dodger:
It must be a zero gravity thing, because the engineers who designed it on Earth using lab rats to test/drink the water didn't have any problems with it. 

There’s just no other reason why the astronauts who can keep a station worth billions of dollars functioning in space can't get the urine recycler to work.

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