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*edit* 4.22 light years from the center of our little solar system, of which earth is about 15.8 micro-lightyears away from.
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Now, these meals could have been placed in someone's personal fixings and have been approved, but I doubt they were snuck on without anyone's knowledge.
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You've got to realize that the people who get to go into space these days (and especially in the early days) were the best and the brightest; Figuring out how to do something crazy (like playing golf on the moon) would have been worth it just to be able to do it.
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A turkey and fixings may not amount to much for you and I on earth, but to engines that have to accelerate that mass to 23,000mph a 13lb turkey is like asking a Viper to pull a 2,000lb trailer to 250mph.
If this story is actually true, its pretty horrifying. If somebody can collaborate to sneak an entire intact turkey into an extremely secure government facility without the ground crew knowing, whats to stop a corrupt astronaut from smuggling 13lbs of C4 onto the spacestation?
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To send stuff into space takes a lot of fuel. Fuel costs a lot of money.
I think estimates are about $10,000 per pound to launch something.
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I know you were only joking but most other countries are ashamed of that kind of past; and tagging on heart-string-pulling 'thanks for life n that' speaches doesn't make it any more appropriate.
Just sayin'.
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Thanksgiving is not at all a celebration of us stealing land from the native Americans - we did that years later.
Thanksgiving celebrates the Natives (namely, Squanto) helping the Puritans to survive in the new land where they would have otherwise died.
The Indians showed the Pilgrims what to plant, how to farm it in American soil, what seafoods were edible, etc.
In fact, the 'first thanksgiving' not only included all the foods that the Pilgrims farmed and prepared, but also many foods that the Natives hunted and brought as well.
It was truly the first American 'neighborhood dinner party'.
Yes, we kicked their asses, destroyed their culture and stole their land over the next few hundred years, but at that time, during that Thanksgiving, we were all cool.
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I think there's very little chance that the space shuttle will get hijacked by terrorists...
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In your anus?
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American trained space explorers are "Astronauts".
Russian trained space explorers are "Cosmonauts".
Chinese trained space explorers are "Taikonauts", however this isn't official terminology.
A person trained by one of these groups, but has their trip funded out of pocket is a "Private Space Explorer", although they are often called "space tourists". No "space tourists" have actually flown without being an integral member of the crew they've been a part of. The only difference was who was footing the bill for their flight.
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