"Two Europeans, three Russians and one Chinese will close the hatch of the Mars500 isolation modules in early June and start their record-breaking mission. The crew will spend a year and a half in a shipping container in Russia in the Institute of Biomedical Problems."
I am sure you have heard about the project going on is Russia where they are going to seal people up in a shipping container (??) for a year and a half to simulate a manned mission to Mars.
I just need to say this so it is on the record. There is no way these guys go that long. I suspect there will be deaths at about the six week mark when they go crazy. Anything run by a group called the Institute of Biomedical Problems just seems doomed to fail. We all know how Stalin treated any such 'problems' he came across.
Personally I am on my own similar simulated mission but I am cooped up in the house ALONE. There is no one for me to kill or to shove out the airlock. Send ME to Mars. I am not doing anyone good here and I can still blog from the space craft.
Give me the cat, Internet access, hot pockets and Pepsi cola and I will get you all the data you could ever want. I will even drink my own pee if you process and recycle it properly. Sounds like a win/win.
European Space Agency - call me.
(p.s. This in one of those times that I wish I was an artist. I would love to add some doodle showing me looking out of the spaceship window as I wave goodbye to all you earth-bound bitches)
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Come back to Earth, there, dear brother Cal. There's a special place for you here, and who knows how big a difference you may yet somehow make with this nutty, wonderful, artistic, abrasive, individualistic, annoying, inspired, intriguing, heart-felt, dearly human little blog of yours.
Oh, I forgot offensive, naive, funny, blasphemous, loving and sweet.
That VM is the nicest thing someone has ever said to me about my blog. That is a post. Thank you you crazy bastard. I would have never expected that from you.
Are you sure the cat wouldn't plan to eject you from the airlock? If it every learned to use the can opener, I would be very careful.
The cat and I have a 'gentleman's' agreement not to 'woosh' each other out of the airlock. I can't speak for him but I plan to honor that arrangement.
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