Astronaut charged with attempted kidnapping

[Math Is Hard]

As an aside, is it wrong to teach your kids to switch a box of adult diapers in for a box of baby diapers in distracted strangers shopping carts?

Not at all. I bet you're such a fun dad!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Now NASA has to pay the price due to her stupidity.

Hers, hers, and his stupidity. From what I understand they could all be in big trouble for fraternizing... well. big trouble by most standards anyway. From Nowaks pov it may not seem like much.

It turns out that Oefelein is an OSU EE grad.

 

[BobG]

Hers, hers, and his stupidity. From what I understand they could all be in big trouble for fraternizing... well. big trouble by most standards anyway. From Nowaks pov it may not seem like much.

It turns out that Oefelein is an OSU EE grad.

I'm not sure they would get into trouble for fraternizing. Technically, I guess Nowak could get into trouble for adultery, but she's separated, even if not divorced, so it would be kind of unlikely.

The rules are different for each branch of the service (surprisingly), but all three were officers. Fraternization is between officers and enlisted, and in some branches of the service, only when the officer and enlisted are in the same chain of command. In fact, there's tons of loopholes even in the branches that forbid any officer/enlisted fraternization.

An enlisted completing college can apply to become an officer and many do. Being married to another enlisted member isn't even a factor in whether they are accepted in Officer Candidate School. Suddenly discovering the newly commissioned officer is fraternizing with an enlisted member would be pretty disingenious at that point.

While it's kind of encouraged that one member get out of the service if one's an officer and one's an enlisted, neither are forced out. A person who's more than half way to retirement eligibiliity isn't going to get out just because their spouse earned a commission. The couple just won't be assigned to the same unit.

Of course, in Oefelein's case, I wouldn't expect him to be selected for any more missions. He isn't very good PR for NASA regardless of whether he had any fault in this.

 

[BobG]

Is nothing too low to resort to just to get a cheap laugh?

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[Astronuc]

Did anyone watch the Daily show last night?

Watching it now.

I agree with Stewart - why did this story catch the media's lack of imagination? Well this story does have everything - sex, diapers, crime, astronauts - and it does seem like it did come out of a 24 hr news improv group (I'd add sleep deprivation or caffeine withdrawal). And I agree that this is up there with the story about Cheney shooting an acquaintaince.

Good point by Riggle - it does have kids talking about the space program again.

Someone on FOX News actually asked "would it be unusual for an astronaut to drive 900 miles during the middle of the week?" Hmmmmm.

And I'm going to have to talk FOX News and Daily News about Astro-nut. That is just too close!

 

[Cyrus]

Hers, hers, and his stupidity. From what I understand they could all be in big trouble for fraternizing... well. big trouble by most standards anyway. From Nowaks pov it may not seem like much.

It turns out that Oefelein is an OSU EE grad.

I can one up you. Nowak is from MD...

 

[Ivan Seeking]

I raise you a Tonya Harding.

 

[Astronuc]

I can one up you. Nowak is from MD...

Texas - Florida - Maryland. Hmmmm. Another triangle.

GW Bush is from Texas and now in Washington DC, which is bordered on 3 sides by Maryland. Jeb Bush, GW's brother, also from Texas, was the governor of Florida until Jan 2, 2007. Not that there is any significance to these coincidences.

Maybe Florida is just the apex of weirdness at the moment.