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Silly Putty on Apollo 8?
That's the claim of http://www.chem.umn.edu/outreach/Sillyputty.html
Any truth to it? -- Kevin Willoughby lid In this country, we produce more students with university degrees in sports management than we do in engineering. - Dean Kamen |
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Silly Putty on Apollo 8?
Kevin Willoughby wrote: That's the claim of http://www.chem.umn.edu/outreach/Sillyputty.html Any truth to it? -- Kevin Willoughby lid In this country, we produce more students with university degrees in sports management than we do in engineering. - Dean Kamen The Silly Putty company web site also makes the same claim. http://www.sillyputty.com/ http://www.sillyputty.com/campus_news/spfactsheet.pdf "The astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission carried Silly Putty into space with them, in a specially designed sterling silver egg, to alleviate boredom and to help fasten down tools during the weightless period. Neiman-Marcus, a Dallas, Texas, retailer, later sold the limited-edition Silly Putty eggs for $75 in their Christmas catalog." Rusty |
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Rusty wrote: "The astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission carried Silly Putty into space with them, in a specially designed sterling silver egg, to alleviate boredom and to help fasten down tools during the weightless period. Neiman-Marcus, a Dallas, Texas, retailer, later sold the limited-edition Silly Putty eggs for $75 in their Christmas catalog." Doesn't this fall into the same category that "The Fallen Astronaut" figure on the Moon did? http://www.check-six.com/lib/Fallen_Astros.htm The artist got into trouble when it was found he was selling replicas of the figure. Pat |
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Silly Putty on Apollo 8?
Pat Flannery wrote: Rusty wrote: "The astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission carried Silly Putty into space with them, in a specially designed sterling silver egg, to alleviate boredom and to help fasten down tools during the weightless period. Neiman-Marcus, a Dallas, Texas, retailer, later sold the limited-edition Silly Putty eggs for $75 in their Christmas catalog." Doesn't this fall into the same category that "The Fallen Astronaut" figure on the Moon did? http://www.check-six.com/lib/Fallen_Astros.htm The artist got into trouble when it was found he was selling replicas of the figure. Pat It's Gort! "Gort, Klaatu Barada Nikto!!!!!" ;-) From time to time you see people selling pieces of mylar from the Apollo 11 command modules, also. How do they get things like that? (I know, buy some mylar, crinkle it up, scorch it and claim it was from Apollo 11.) Rusty |
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Pat Flannery wrote:
Rusty wrote: "The astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission carried Silly Putty into space with them, in a specially designed sterling silver egg, to alleviate boredom and to help fasten down tools during the weightless period... Whoa. Did they only use it to make impressions from the Bible pages, or did they bounce it around the cabin? I loved how that **** used to bounce like hell -- and you couldn't really get it into a perfectly spherical ball, of course, so it'd bounce at really weird unexpected angles, too. -- .. "Though I could not caution all, I yet may warn a few: Don't lend your hand to raise no flag atop no ship of fools!" --grateful dead. __________________________________________________ _____________ Mike Flugennock, flugennock at sinkers dot org "Mikey'zine": dubya dubya dubya dot sinkers dot org |
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Silly Putty on Apollo 8?
mike flugennock wrote: Pat Flannery wrote: Rusty wrote: "The astronauts of the Apollo 8 mission carried Silly Putty into space with them, in a specially designed sterling silver egg, to alleviate boredom and to help fasten down tools during the weightless period... Watch the attribution, I didn't write any of that. Whoa. Did they only use it to make impressions from the Bible pages, or did they bounce it around the cabin? I loved how that **** used to bounce like hell -- and you couldn't really get it into a perfectly spherical ball, of course, so it'd bounce at really weird unexpected angles, too. Don't ever get it in your hair. Pat |
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Silly Putty on Apollo 8?
"Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... I loved how that **** used to bounce like hell -- and you couldn't really get it into a perfectly spherical ball, of course, so it'd bounce at really weird unexpected angles, too. Don't ever get it in your hair. which is less and less probable for many of us |
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Silly Putty on Apollo 8?
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:36:08 -0500, Terrell Miller wrote:
Don't ever get it in your hair. which is less and less probable for many of us Beards, however... -- Chuck Stewart "Anime-style catgirls: Threat? Menace? Or just studying algebra?" |
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Silly Putty on Apollo 8?
Chuck Stewart wrote: which is less and less probable for many of us Beards, however... "Within this vale of toil and sin, your head grows bald, but not your chin." "Said Farmer Brown, who's bald on top 'Wish I could rotate the crop' " Burma-Shave slogans ;-) Pat |
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Silly Putty on Apollo 8?
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 17:00:38 -0600, Pat Flannery
wrote: "Within this vale of toil and sin, your head grows bald, but not your chin." "Said Farmer Brown, who's bald on top 'Wish I could rotate the crop' " Burma-Shave slogans ;-) Don't waste your flames all good and well on lost Brad Guth who's going to Hell! OM -- ]=====================================[ ] OMBlog - http://www.io.com/~o_m/omworld [ ] Let's face it: Sometimes you *need* [ ] an obnoxious opinion in your day! [ ]=====================================[ |
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