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Browncoats get to the ISS

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Apparently, Mission Specialist Steve Swanson is a Browncoat, and they got him a set to take up earlier in June. I think the pictures say it all:

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Sorry if this shouldn't be in scifi. Its kinda impressive to see how committed Browncoats are to making crazy shit happen.
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Is there a DVD player on the space station/shuttle?

Go Firefly though regardless. :banghead: Curse you short sighted FOX bastards.
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Since no one else has said it;

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Props.

now he just needs to fire a souped-up gun through a spacesuit visor.
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floating Firefly DVDs in freefall is possibly the coolest image of the week. :)
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Jayne wrote:It's impressive, what "nothing" can do to a man.
Yeah. Keep flying, dude!
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See the future is using ISS to fight the Alliance :D
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I thought this was an Star Trek "Empire" meets the Firefly proposal.
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Darth Tanner wrote:Is there a DVD player on the space station/shuttle?

Go Firefly though regardless. :banghead: Curse you short sighted FOX bastards.
On ISS there is. Gotta unwind somehow during those 6 month stints up there.

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I bet that's a real bitch to clean up in zero-g. You don't want that drifting onto your console.
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So THAT's why ever so often Mir had those nasty electrical fires! :lol:
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I don't know about "just" catching it; by the time you were done, the first ejaculate would probably have already hit the wall. But I suppose it would be simple to lay out a cloth or something to float in front of your penis which would catch it.
Mir apparently had a stash of porno videos.
I should hope so... didn't they have several guys who stayed up for over a year?
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I don't know whether the fact that I'm a member of a message board where people ponder the best ways to jack off in freefall a thing to smile or cry about. :D
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SiegeTank wrote:I don't know whether the fact that I'm a member of a message board where people ponder the best ways to jack off in freefall a thing to smile or cry about. :D
This is why I love SD.net. It has the most intresting topics on the web.
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I wonder if it could be used for thrust?
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His Divine Shadow wrote:I wonder if it could be used for thrust?
Wtf, you had to put that there didn't you.... :evil:
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His Divine Shadow wrote:I wonder if it could be used for thrust?
Quite possibly but you'd get better performance just by peeing, or taking laxitives. Not to mention it would be difficult to maintain a stable firing position during the ignition phase.

In any case, the various options are going to vastly decrease the pleasantness of whatever space you happen to occupying at the time so you do need to weigh up the pros and cons.
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Darth Tanner wrote:Is there a DVD player on the space station/shuttle?
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They must be years ahead of us :shock:
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I'd never believe that I will one day see a discussion form regarding whether peeing would give good thrust.

What about farting?
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I can see it now, the discussion between the NASA mission controller and the GlavKosmos controller:

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