So there's an opening in the US Astronaut corps...

[Tippster]

I do love it when you hit your head.

[Stu Gotz]

To the contrary; this astronaut has done nothing to dispense with the negative, and totally undeserved, stereotypes that women have had to deal with for centuries. I think that is a shame.

Nowak's biography shows she is a 1985 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis with a degree in aerospace engineering, and a former test pilot who has logged more than 1,500 hours of flight in at least 30 types of aircraft.

Which stereotypes would those be?

[The AD]

Nowak's biography shows she is a 1985 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis with a degree in aerospace engineering, and a former test pilot who has logged more than 1,500 hours of flight in at least 30 types of aircraft.

Which stereotypes would those be?

That even well-educated, successful women are, deep inside, mentally unstable

[PNWbrit]

Someone send a PM to Grapedrink.

DisArray needs some help back pedaling from his crassly sexist comments.

[bklyn]

That even well-educated, successful women are, deep inside, mentally unstable

Unless they're getting some dick regularly (preferably by the guy doing the criticizing). That solves all their problems.

[Cono Este]

I learn something new everyday at TGR. Disarray's ignorance prompted me to investigate the Nautical myth that women are bad luck to have on board a vessel. Turns out it's true, unless they are naked!


"Interestingly enough, there is a way to counter this effect. While having a woman on board would anger the sea, having a “naked” woman on board would calm the sea. Imagine that. This is why many vessels have a figure of a woman on the bow of the ship, this figure almost always being bare-breasted. It was believed that a woman’s bare breasts would “shame” the stormy seas into calm. Alas, the ancient power of female nudity. "

No surprise here, bare breasted women have super natural powers.

[altagirl]

Unless they're getting some dick regularly (preferably by the guy doing the criticizing). That solves all their problems.

Exactly - do none of you watch Seinfeld?

[PNWbrit]

Cono - NASA tried this with the shuttle but they couldn't get heat proof tiles to stick to the "chestages"

[bklyn]

If the situation was reversed, and the lovesick astronaut was a married man... He'd never focus his rage on any potential rivals for affection.

He'd have taken the simpler route and just killed his wife. Then he could be free and clear to pursue someone else.

[danimal's dead]

He'd have taken the simpler route and just killed his wife. Then he could be free and clear to pursue someone else.

Paging Scott Peterson, Mr. Peterson to the padded room.

[Blatant]

I didn't know they wore depends during take off and re-entry. Nasty shit.

[Yeti]

I had a hunch, so I called my father-in-law. Yup, he works with Ms. Depends. Discussing this subject is now prohibited at Cape Canaveral.