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NS: NASA turned on by blow-up space stations

Post by bystander » Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:10 pm

NASA turned on by blow-up space stations
New Scientist - 2010 March 03
NASA is planning to investigate making inflatable space-station modules to make roomier, lighter, cheaper-to-launch spacecraft, it reveals in its budget proposal released on 22 February. We look into the technologies involved.

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Re: NS: NASA turned on by blow-up space stations

Post by neufer » Wed Mar 03, 2010 7:30 pm

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MEL: My name's Sanger, Mel Sanger. I drive that truck out there.

JERRY: Oh, the Yoo Hoo? I love Yoo Hoo.

MEL: It's a fine product. Anyway I saw you on the Tonight Show a couple of weeks ago. I was watching the show with my son Donald. He's got this rare immune deficiency in his blood. Damnedest thing. Doctors say he has to live in a plastic bubble. Can you imagine that? A bubble.

JERRY: A bubble?

ELAINE: A bubble?

MEL: Yes, a bubble! Ah, It'd break your heart seein' him in there. It's like a prisoner. No friends - just his mother and me. And I'm out there six days a week haulin' Yoo Hoo We have sacrificed everything. All for our little bubble boy <breaks up in tears>

MEL: <in tears> Excuse me, I

ELAINE: Here <giving out paper napkins>

<<MEL AND ELAINE WIPE TEARS FROM THEIR EYES, JERRY WIPES CRUMBS FROM HIS MOUTH>>

MEL: Excuse me, anyway we were watching you on TV

JERRY: You get in the bubble with him?

MEL: No. He can see through the bubble. It's plastic.

JERRY: Oh, I thought it was like an igloo.

MEL: No, it's clear.

JERRY: Ah ha.

ELAINE: Who has the remote?

MEL: He does.

ELAINE: The remote goes through the bubble?

MEL: Yeah, he's in the bubble with the remote.

JERRY: So you have no control over the remote?

MEL: No, it's frustrating.

ELAINE: Yeah, of course, yeah.

MEL: So anyway, you're his favourite comedian. He laughed so hard the other night we had to give him an extra shot of hemoglobin.

JERRY: That's nice!

MEL: Tomorrow is his birthday and it would mean so much to him if you could find it in your heart ta' pay him a visit and just say hello.
Art Neuendorffer

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