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Sex in Space: Why NASA Isn't Talking About it
blog.wired.com — Sometimes I wonder to myself, "Why does NASA have to be so mindbogglingly conservative all the time?" Well this morning I got my answer: taxpayers in the Midwest. The Rapid City Weekly News in South Dakota published an editorial which says that "the public has a right to know that tax dollars won't be funding fornication in the new frontiers."
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- aking7, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3The U.S. as a whole is very uptight when discussing sex. It is no surprise that NASA is too. I don't think this will change until us Americans are more comfortable with our sexuality.
- Jeremyz0r, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5That will happen around the time all republicans become pro-homosexual.
- floridiot2, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5..well publicly pro-homosexual.
- Jeremyz0r, on 07/16/2008, -0/+5That will happen around the time all republicans become pro-homosexual.
- FuryOfThor, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2The mechanics of sex would be so difficult to fathom in perpetual freefall. With no gravity, it'd be tough to keep from moving apart.
- bradspangler, on 07/16/2008, -0/+1Bungee cords. ;)
- floridiot2, on 07/16/2008, -0/+6Fornication? This is about discovering new things about ourselves, about humanity and how we develop during non earth-like conditions. If you oppose science and learning then go put your head back under that rock and shut the ***** up. You're the biggest hindrance to the advancement of this world.
- sexualwasabi, on 07/16/2008, -1/+2I guess must suck if they can't even jack-off.... "hey is that sperm floating in the air?"
- Cyberbladewolf, on 07/16/2008, -0/+2I thought the main reason we prevented human sex in space wasn't because it was taboo, but because of serious questions regarding health. Such as what would happen to a developing fetus in 0 gravity, or the radiation in space?
- num3thod, on 07/16/2008, -0/+3Pics/clips or it...you know the drill.
- SillyRabbits, on 07/17/2008, -0/+2Why aren't they talking about it? Because on the list of concerns for keeping the agency operating, and the queue of science questions to be answered, it falls about #271,398. Other than the novelty factor, it will have zero impact unless we begin sending people on multi-year missions - and that's decades away (at best). It's a little like Intel worrying about whether to stock their bathrooms with scented or unscented toilet paper.
- fireashes, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1First of all I dont think NASA will do such experiments. If it does and does not tell anybody then its bad.
- phreak79, on 07/17/2008, -0/+1I for one welcome our new human-alien overlords.
- theadvinci, on 07/18/2008, -0/+1People are taller in space... is the... you know... I think you know what I'm talking about.
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