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What Bowie should have put in the lyrics to 'Space Oddity'

Thos enterprising people at The Smoking Gun have the answer, having got hold of a NASA memo on dealing with an astronaut flipping out:

"NASA officials suggest that crew members subdue the unstable astronaut with duct tape and bungee cords and inject the patient with a "potent tranquilizer".

Would have made 'Dark Star' a lot duller too.

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Anonymous Anonymous said... 8:39 pm

Sounds like a plan for dealing with Tony Blair in some of his more outré moments.  



Anonymous Anonymous said... 9:44 pm

Bomb number 20 exploding is intentionality at its best but once it had done it did it experience a different conciousness or had it emptied its existence by exploding?

Me, I'd have got back into the bomb bay and had a longer think, though Bomb 20 certainly had decision and courage.  



Anonymous Anonymous said... 10:36 pm

HG- that is either the most gnomic post I have ever read or you are referring to a song/event which I somehow blinked and missed.  



Blogger Croydonian said... 10:48 pm

It is from a film called 'Dark Star'.  



Anonymous Anonymous said... 11:08 pm

Oh.

Oh, yeah! I knew that!  



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