Comments on: NASA finds no evidence of drinking before flights http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/08/nasa-finds-no-evidence-of-drinking-before-flights/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:56:50 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Irishman http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/08/nasa-finds-no-evidence-of-drinking-before-flights/comment-page-1/#comment-44981 Irishman Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:27:48 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/08/nasa-finds-no-evidence-of-drinking-before-flights/#comment-44981 Or a gun on an oil platform, for that matter. Or a gun on an oil platform, for that matter.

]]> By: Thomas Siefert http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/08/nasa-finds-no-evidence-of-drinking-before-flights/comment-page-1/#comment-44980 Thomas Siefert Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:13:49 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/08/nasa-finds-no-evidence-of-drinking-before-flights/#comment-44980 To HvP: Didn't you see Armageddon?: "Man, what are you doing with a gun in space?" :-) To HvP: Didn’t you see Armageddon?: “Man, what are you doing with a gun in space?” :-)

]]> By: HvP http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/08/nasa-finds-no-evidence-of-drinking-before-flights/comment-page-1/#comment-44979 HvP Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:18:23 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/08/nasa-finds-no-evidence-of-drinking-before-flights/#comment-44979 "And there isn’t a real problem with guns in America and the social acceptance of them?" Now that's a non-sequitur. Unless there were some charges that astronauts were carrying guns on missions I don't see the connection. “And there isn’t a real problem with guns in America and the social acceptance of them?”

Now that’s a non-sequitur. Unless there were some charges that astronauts were carrying guns on missions I don’t see the connection.

]]> By: Nicolas http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/08/nasa-finds-no-evidence-of-drinking-before-flights/comment-page-1/#comment-44978 Nicolas Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:03:41 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/08/nasa-finds-no-evidence-of-drinking-before-flights/#comment-44978 And there isn't a real problem with guns in America and the social acceptance of them? And there isn’t a real problem with guns in America and the social acceptance of them?

]]> By: Nicolas http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/08/nasa-finds-no-evidence-of-drinking-before-flights/comment-page-1/#comment-44977 Nicolas Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:02:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/08/nasa-finds-no-evidence-of-drinking-before-flights/#comment-44977 >I wasn’t being shallow, there is a real problem with alcohol in Russia and part of it is social acceptance of heavy drinking. >I wasn’t being shallow, there is a real problem with alcohol in Russia and part of it is social acceptance of heavy drinking.

]]> By: Thomas Siefert http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/08/nasa-finds-no-evidence-of-drinking-before-flights/comment-page-1/#comment-44974 Thomas Siefert Thu, 09 Aug 2007 16:09:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/08/nasa-finds-no-evidence-of-drinking-before-flights/#comment-44974 >Yep, and all Americans are trigger-happy cowboys in hats. I wasn't being shallow, there is a real problem with alcohol in Russia and part of it is social acceptance of heavy drinking. A few weeks back I picked up my wife in Heathrow airport after one of her business trips to Russia. While I waited a planeload of people from Chicago came through, I have never seen this many grown up people with cowboy hats before, well not since that Brokeback Mountain cowboy party we attended a few months back :-) >Yep, and all Americans are trigger-happy cowboys in hats.

I wasn’t being shallow, there is a real problem with alcohol in Russia and part of it is social acceptance of heavy drinking.

A few weeks back I picked up my wife in Heathrow airport after one of her business trips to Russia. While I waited a planeload of people from Chicago came through, I have never seen this many grown up people with cowboy hats before, well not since that Brokeback Mountain cowboy party we attended a few months back :-)

]]> By: SCR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/08/nasa-finds-no-evidence-of-drinking-before-flights/comment-page-1/#comment-44976 SCR Thu, 09 Aug 2007 15:26:25 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/08/08/nasa-finds-no-evidence-of-drinking-before-flights/#comment-44976 Yep, another exaggerated mountain-from-molehill media sensation that has turned out to be baloney. If only agencies could sue like people for damage toreputation maybe the media would be a bit more careful .. Then again, there's wa-aay too much litigation in your culture anyway and in other ways that's the last thing we need more of. Only lawyers win at the legal games we play now. "Justice" went out the window a long time ago as I - and most others too I'd think - see things. Could we just get a responsible media doing ist job honouyrably and actually researching and highlighting the positve real stories, informaing thepublic on the science and making reasonable criticisms in a measured fair way when called for? I'd drink to that .... If only it'd happen. Getting media accountability and getting them to play fair rather act as propagandists and sensation-mongers seems an incredibly hardand distant prospect - it should be a goal but in the Murdcoh blighted climate of today it seems a very distant dream ... Yep, another exaggerated mountain-from-molehill media sensation that has turned out to be baloney.

If only agencies could sue like people for damage toreputation maybe the media would be a bit more careful ..

Then again, there’s wa-aay too much litigation in your culture anyway and in other ways that’s the last thing we need more of. Only lawyers win at the legal games we play now. “Justice” went out the window a long time ago as I – and most others too I’d think – see things.

Could we just get a responsible media doing ist job honouyrably and actually researching and highlighting the positve real stories, informaing thepublic on the science and making reasonable criticisms in a measured fair way when called for? I’d drink to that …. If only it’d happen.

Getting media accountability and getting them to play fair rather act as propagandists and sensation-mongers seems an incredibly hardand distant prospect – it should be a goal but in the Murdcoh blighted climate of today it seems a very distant dream …

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