Another Caption Contest

On May 8, 6:58 pm, Bill Higgins wrote:
Gather round, boys and girls. It's caption contest time again!

Please post your caption to this:

http://flickr.com/photos/beamjockey/490290375/

"Jack LaLanne approved, this new fitness device is just what one needs
in the modern Space Age."


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Fermilab | from stepping on the rake twice
| and it lets you appreciate
Internet: | watching other people step on rakes
| on more levels."
| -- James Nicoll

It was 9 May 2007, when Mary Pegg commented:


Bill Higgins wrote:

Gather round, boys and girls. It's caption contest time again!

Please post your caption to this:

http://flickr.com/photos/beamjockey/490290375/

Little did Barney realise what he was letting himself in for when
he volunteered as a Space Cadet.

Our new beta-version chemical toilet does still have a few hazardous
material concerns. Oh, and the seat design might be ill-advised.

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The Life and Times of a Minor Local Celebrity

It was 9 May 2007, when Mary Pegg commented:


Bill Higgins wrote:

Gather round, boys and girls. It's caption contest time again!

Please post your caption to this:

http://flickr.com/photos/beamjockey/490290375/

Little did Barney realise what he was letting himself in for when
he volunteered as a Space Cadet.

Our new beta-version chemical toilet does still have a few hazardous
material concerns. Oh, and the seat design might be ill-advised.

--
Grizzly grizzly at grizzly.podzone.org
Podcast:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/grizzlysgrowls
The Life and Times of a Minor Local Celebrity

On Thu, 10 May 2007, Rusty wrote:
On May 8, 3:58 pm, Bill Higgins wrote:

Gather round, boys and girls. It's caption contest time again!
http://flickr.com/photos/beamjockey/490290375/

"Coming Next Month In Mechanix Illustrated, Plans To Build Your Own
Space Capsule!"

The mystery photo appears as Figure 1 in "Physiology And Operational
Comparison Of MC-1 And MC-3 (MC-4) Partial Pressure Suits," by Capt.
Terence F. McGuire, published in 1960:
http://www.gl.iit.edu/wadc/DigitalCollection/1957/WADCTR57-536volume01.pdf.

The bizarre-looking device is a pressure differential tank, a way to
apply different pressures to a subject's head and to his body.

Conceivably, in an aircraft, a pilot's lungs could be at a lower or
higher pressure than his helmet. If lower, they would have to do
extra work to exhale; if higher, extra work to inhale. Capt. McGuire
and his colleagues were experimenting to find the limits of tolerance
for these differentials. Within the cabinet, the subject was wearing
one of the U.S. Air Force partial-pressure suits.

Thanks to the folks at the IIT Contrails project for digitizing some
of the Wright Air Development Center publications from the Jet Age.
See http://www.gl.iit.edu/wadc/.

And thanks to denizens of sci.space.history for the captions.

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Bill Higgins | "In the year 2028 the Cubs will go all the way
| and will be winning the 7th game of the World Series
Fermilab | in the bottom of the 9th with 2 outs, 2 strikes,
| no balls when a mile-wide asteroid hits Wrigley Field.
Internet: | If 1997-XF11 doesn't hit, the Cubs will be
| in the cellar that year, like normal.
| That's your asteroid early warning system."
| --"Bloody Viking" in alt.sports.baseball.chicago-cubs