Muppets In Space / July 27 2007
I can be pretty irresponsible at times but I have never driven a vehicle whilst under the influence of alcohol. Especially a spaceship.
The fact that NASA are so meticulously cautious and controlled in everything they do, and should then allow two of their astronauts to blast off into space while drunk is reckless and absurd at best, criminally idiotic at worst.
It has been a while since I departed the groves of academe, so my cerebral acuities are perhaps not as extensive as they once were, but even I can see what a completely foolish enterprise it was.
Perhaps it was someone’s birthday or maybe a few creative ground controllers thought that it would be an amusing experiment:
‘Hey, Hank, you ever wondered what would happen if . . ?’
It could have been an elaborate joke played on the American tax-payer. That would be a very British thing to do; to use so much irony that it becomes almost ironic.
Whatever the reason, it does lead one to believe that perhaps a timely review of the agency’s system of assessing the mental health of employees should be ordered. As I keep saying: it’s not rocket science, is it?
But more than anything else, what I want to know is: how did they get caught? How on earth would a traffic cop be able to stop them and pull them over?
On the Fantastic hi-fi today:
At My Age - Nick Lowe
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