Regular readers know that my pet "government waste poster-child" is NASA's 600 million dollar toilet that doesn't work. During the latest shuttle voyage to the International Space Station (ISS) it turns out that this lovely, wonderful invention "flooded."
Oh what a glorious day in TAE's lovely life.
You see, part of the problem with the ISS is they want to stop shipping gallons and gallons of water up to it every time they visit. So they devised this elaborate water recycling system at the tune of $150 million, which upon installation, promptly broke, was fixed, and broke again. During this plumbing crisis, TAE enumerated his own daring strategy to build a water recycler at the horrible cost of 150 dollars. I suggested the design, and even offered NASA a working model for a mere $1 million dollars (an inconsequential sum when faced with NASA's hemorrhaging budget).
Now it is revealed that one of the ISS residents wore a pair of "super undies" for 30 days to test the new underwear's antibacterial abilities, smell-hiding abilities, and comfortabilities.
It is my humble suggestion that NASA, having been inspired by one of their very own ex-astronauts insane road-trip across America while wearing a diaper, have decided to scrap their $600 million dollar, semi-functional toilet and just have the astronauts wear diapers in space.
It is TAE's dream that one day he will be put in charge of NASA, in which case we'll have colonists en route to Mars in two months, and a permanent colony built there in under three years. And TAE can all but guarantee the toilets on Mars will be cheap. But sadly, I highly doubt it.
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Saturday, 1 August 2009
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