Chris is a friend of mine and all, but sometimes, y’know, I worry about him a little.
Then I see this and I worry about him a lot.
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June 27th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
The Shuttle…it’s not JUST for breakfast!
or how about…
The Shuttle Program: the meat and potato(e)s of NASA.
or what about…
MMmmmm…re-entry roasted heat shield!
June 27th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Plain? I’ve got to have some condiments on my shuttles.
June 27th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Detective Thorn says, “The space shuttle is PEOPLE!!!”
June 27th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
IT’S A COOKBOOK!!!!
June 27th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
khaaaaaaan!!!!!
June 27th, 2007 at 4:18 pm
He’ll be tasting that for days….
June 27th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
Not. Well!
June 27th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
I wonder when he burps if it will taste better going up than down.
June 27th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Purchase the new Ronco heat tile toothpick!
or
Sick of Gyro have a Hero!
or
The space program, you’ll eat it up.
June 27th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
That was hi-frickin’-larious! A real LOL!
June 27th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
That’s great. I’d have to say, though, you should have had some warning when one of his posts suggests “Ending Windows programs does not require a hammer.” Clearly his grip on reality was aready slipping.
June 27th, 2007 at 9:17 pm
“Never grow up!, never surrender!”
June 27th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Yes, its gross, and, after eating the Space Shuttle, Chris lay unconscious for a day and a night. But, imagine how delighted he was when he awakened and discovered that the experience doubled his intellectual understanding of aerodynamics and hydraulic systems - andalso giving him super strength. He can now lift a car!
June 27th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Someone needs to get out more
June 27th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
He’s going to have quite a bowel movement, doncha think?
June 28th, 2007 at 1:45 am
The Space Shuttle: the “other” white meat.
June 28th, 2007 at 2:21 am
“Of those who say nothing, few are silent” - Thomas Neill
well…his not silent….but he sure as hell don’t say anything…
June 28th, 2007 at 3:48 am
Mmmm, thermal tiles. *drools*
June 28th, 2007 at 4:09 am
Don’t do this at home, children, you do not know what the Astronauts on board could be planning to do after touchdown. Remember the cross-country car trip…..
Ivan.
June 28th, 2007 at 4:23 am
Having been bitten by a radioactive space shuttle, he gained the powers and abilities of a space shuttle.
But Phil… Why are you worried about him? Seemed ok. I am assuming that he wated half an hour before swimming. Because not waiting is cause for concern.
PfA.
June 28th, 2007 at 5:01 am
I can only imagine this is what comes later…
Burrr-EEEtos!
June 28th, 2007 at 9:38 am
That’s the creepiest thing I’ve seen all day.
June 28th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
I’m worried about him, but not because he has a taste for Shuttles (well, they are tasty!)… but because he believes “Airborne” can actually prevent you from becoming ill. “Airborne” doesn’t work, just like all other homeopathic ‘remedies’. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=9389C0F4-E7F2-99DF-3BE657CAD1649375
Still, it might help to wash down thsoe pesky thermal tiles!
June 28th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Psychologist call the regular and purposeful ingestion of non-nutrative items pica.
Though Chris’s behavior doesn’t qualify(its more of a quasipseudometa pica), I still have my eye on that boy. He ain’t right in the head.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Gee, I try to tell people that Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy blog is a serious science web site, and then Phil puts this on his site.
June 28th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
“Psychologist call the regular and purposeful ingestion of non-nutrative items pica.”
Does eating at McDonald’s count as Pica?
June 28th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
This man is clearly a genius. He needs to be put in charge of the cev program right away.
June 29th, 2007 at 8:14 am
Gopher,
I wondered the very same thing as I was posting, but I didn’t want Phil to lose out on McDonalds as a corporate sponsor of badastronomy.com
June 29th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Pffff…. are you impressed by THAT? That is NOTHING, I tell you! In my time I ate an entire Saturn V! When the LES went off I didn’t even blink!
O, hang on, I better change my name on this post.