Astronaut Collapses During Ceremony

Astronaut Collapses During Ceremony

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2478889

HOUSTON Sep 22, 2006 (AP)- An astronaut from the space shuttle
Atlantis collapsed twice Friday during a welcome home ceremony, a
wobbly return that officials attributed to the adjustment from 12 days
at zero gravity.

Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper left the hangar at Ellington Field through
a side door but was not taken to a hospital, officials said.

Piper, fifth of the six astronauts to speak, appeared to be confused
before her legs buckled during her address. NASA officials and crew
members braced her and lowered her to the ground. She stood up again,
and the crowd applauded.

"Boy, if that's not a little embarrassing," she said.

After speaking for another half-minute or so, she again appeared
confused and gripped the podium. Crew members stepped to her side and
lowered her to the floor.

The Atlantis crew returned Thursday after performing the first
construction work on the international space station since the Columbia
disaster 3 1/2 years ago.

They performed three grueling spacewalks to hook up a 17 1/2-ton
addition, which included a giant set of electricity-producing solar
panels.

Rusty wrote:


Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper left the hangar at Ellington Field through
a side door but was not taken to a hospital, officials said.

Piper, fifth of the six astronauts to speak, appeared to be confused
before her legs buckled during her address. NASA officials and crew
members braced her and lowered her to the ground. She stood up again,
and the crowd applauded.

"Boy, if that's not a little embarrassing," she said.

After speaking for another half-minute or so, she again appeared
confused and gripped the podium. Crew members stepped to her side and
lowered her to the floor.



I checked- she's from Minnesota, and the problem is obvious: Space
Induced Polka Depravation.
With no exposure to Polka music for over a week, your average
German-descended Minnesotan will lapse into a state of lassitude
bordering on coma.
Immediate medical intervention is required!
This is a job for "The Mayo Clinic Minstrels - The Perfect Polka
Prescription"!
Until then her condition can be stabilized via listening to one of the
many fine Minnesota Polka radio programs:
http://www.radio4polkas.com/polkarad.../state/MN.html
That, and beer sausages, will soon cure _this_ problem! ;-)

Pat

"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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Rusty wrote:


Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper left the hangar at Ellington Field through
a side door but was not taken to a hospital, officials said.

Piper, fifth of the six astronauts to speak, appeared to be confused
before her legs buckled during her address. NASA officials and crew
members braced her and lowered her to the ground. She stood up again,
and the crowd applauded.

"Boy, if that's not a little embarrassing," she said.

After speaking for another half-minute or so, she again appeared
confused and gripped the podium. Crew members stepped to her side and
lowered her to the floor.


I checked- she's from Minnesota, and the problem is obvious: Space Induced
Polka Depravation.
With no exposure to Polka music for over a week, your average
German-descended Minnesotan will lapse into a state of lassitude bordering
on coma.
Immediate medical intervention is required!
This is a job for "The Mayo Clinic Minstrels - The Perfect Polka
Prescription"!
Until then her condition can be stabilized via listening to one of the
many fine Minnesota Polka radio programs:
http://www.radio4polkas.com/polkarad.../state/MN.html
That, and beer sausages, will soon cure _this_ problem! ;-)

Pat

You're a prick! If you don't have anything nice to say, shut up!

Down the killfile you go!

/J

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:25:42 +0200, "Jesper Thomsen"
x9jepHOSThomsen.mail.dk wrote:

You're a prick! If you don't have anything nice to say, shut up!

....You must be new around here. Pat's humor is as part of the group as
my tenacity to jump down the throats of idiots who jump into a group
and start playing moralistic denoument cards without knowing just who
the frack they're talking to, or what the scene is all about.

Down the killfile you go!

....Yeah, well, tell you what, my Killfile Hell needs a Court Jesper
down there. Say "hi!" to the trolls, and be sure to volunteer for the
sodomy games!

PLONK

....What is a .dk? Denmark? Pfhegh.

OM
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On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 15:25:42 -0500, Jesper Thomsen wrote
(in article ):

You're a prick! If you don't have anything nice to say, shut up!

And you're an idiot if you don't recognize and appreciate Pat's
contributions to this group, both materially and humorously.

Down the killfile you go!

You're going to miss out on a lot.

--
Herb Schaltegger
"You can run on for a long time . . . sooner or later, God'll cut you
down." - Johnny Cash
http://www.angryherb.net

OM wrote:
On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 22:25:42 +0200, "Jesper Thomsen"
x9jepHOSThomsen.mail.dk wrote:

You're a prick! If you don't have anything nice to say, shut up!

...You must be new around here. Pat's humor is as part of the group as
my tenacity to jump down the throats of idiots who jump into a group
and start playing moralistic denoument cards without knowing just who
the frack they're talking to, or what the scene is all about.

Down the killfile you go!

...Yeah, well, tell you what, my Killfile Hell needs a Court Jesper
down there. Say "hi!" to the trolls, and be sure to volunteer for the
sodomy games!

PLONK

...What is a .dk? Denmark? Pfhegh.

OM


Victor Borge must be rolling in his grave.

My grandfather was Danish, he didn't have much of a sense of humor,
either. At least he didn't think it was funny when I gassed up his car
with a garden hose when I was a kid. ;-)


Rusty

Jesper Thomsen wrote:

You're a prick! If you don't have anything nice to say, shut up!

Down the killfile you go!

/J





Thank God I didn't do any of the Oli and Lena jokes, or I'd _really_
have encouraged the wrath of the RMADL (Real Minnesotan Anti-Defamation
League).
Hey Jesper; do you know why North Dakota is so windy? Because Minnesota
sucks and Montana blows.
Ya, you betcha!
Now get back to stalking Garrison Keillor, and leave me alone.
"Mini-Apple" my arse, mate. :-)

Pat

Herb Schaltegger wrote:

And you're an idiot if you don't recognize and appreciate Pat's
contributions to this group, both materially and humorously.



Down the killfile you go!



You're going to miss out on a lot.



Yeah, like exciting stories from actual encounters with real, living,
Minnesotans! Crikey mate, it's adventures in the outback of human
civilization - where anything might happen at any moment!
See their smiling faces:
http://users.mcleodusa.net/r/rpgerva...Como%20Zoo.jpg
Hear their stirring music: http://www.emusic.com/album/10906/10906544.html
See their ancient cultu
http://www.bottombus.co.nz/albums/se...t_required.jpg
Glory in the triumphs of architecture in their new home:
http://www.lileks.com/mpls/modern/th...ird/index.html
View the exotic wildlife of the state:
http://www.roguetaxidermy.com/Archiv...rt.muskrat.htm
See the State Bird: http://www.jdueck.net/verse/5/curse-of-the-mosquito
And awake to the haunting cry of the loon:
http://www.americanatheist.org/action/

Pat

Rusty wrote:

...What is a .dk? Denmark? Pfhegh.

OM




Victor Borge must be rolling in his grave.

My grandfather was Danish, he didn't have much of a sense of humor,
either. At least he didn't think it was funny when I gassed up his car
with a garden hose when I was a kid. ;-)



Do the Danes even listen to Polka music? Frankly, I just thought they
sat around all day being melancholy

"Rolls out the Shadow, old Hamlet's ghost has appeared!
Roll out the shadow, it is again as I feared!
Mother's a murderess, so is my evil stepfather too!
Polonius is dead, soon we'll nose out a big pee-ew!
Ophilia's underwater, she's at the bottom of the pond!
That's too bad, as of her I was really quite fond!
But let's roll out the barrel and all drink some Danish Carlsburg beer!
Yes, yes, yes, have some fine Danish Carlsburg beer!
That's sure more fun....than getting poison poured in the porches of
your ear!"

Pat

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:38:02 -0500, Pat Flannery
wrote:

Rusty wrote:

...What is a .dk? Denmark? Pfhegh.

Victor Borge must be rolling in his grave.

....Only in order to turn the music page sideways so he could play
Chopsticks correctly :-P

My grandfather was Danish

....One of the best test engineers I've known was a Dane, although we
used to call him a Sweed because his last name was Sweedish, even
though the past 11 generations had been born and raised in Denmark.

Do the Danes even listen to Polka music? Frankly, I just thought they
sat around all day being melancholy

....Hey, if your nationality was forever inadvertantly associated with
a cowardly dog that hangs around with one of the last surviving
hippies of the 60's chasing scam artists masquerading as ghosts,
spectres and phantasms, *you'd* be melancholy as well. "Great", indeed
:-/

OM
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