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It helped to have the solace of numbers to retreat to after helping with the refugees during the day. Today I had served soup to a group of Girl Scouts and their scout masters. They had been on a camping trip when the Meteor hit, and by sheer luck had been spelunking in the Crystal Caves. They'd felt the earthquake and thought it was disaster enough. Then they'd come up and everything was just gone.
— Jun 08, 2019 01:21PM
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"What are you going to cook in space?"
"Science." The word popped out of my mouth before I thought about it, and the room rewarded me with a laugh. "Followed by a nice healthy dinner of kerosene and liquid oxygen."
— Jun 08, 2019 06:47PM
"Science." The word popped out of my mouth before I thought about it, and the room rewarded me with a laugh. "Followed by a nice healthy dinner of kerosene and liquid oxygen."
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If I were an actual astronaut, I wouldn't mind it so much, I think. It's just that people called me "Lady Astronaut" because I wasn't allowed to be one. That was the thing that rubbed. The reason I was known at all was because I was agitating for a role I couldn't have. Having folks call me that? It was like being jealous of a character on TV, except that character was me. Can you be jealous of yourself?
— Jun 08, 2019 05:14PM
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Before we got home from the synagogue, I needed to take my coat off. It felt like it must be in the mid-seventies. On the one hand, thank God it was finally warming up. On the other ... I knew what the warming meant. We were hitting the beginning of the greenhouse effect.
— Jun 08, 2019 04:19PM
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Do you remember where you were when we put a man into space? I was one of two computer girls sitting in the International Aerospace Coalition's "dark room" at Sunflower Mission Control in Kansas, with graph paper and my mechanical pencils. We used to launch from Florida, but that was before the Meteor, and before the NACA became part of the IAC.
— Jun 08, 2019 01:59PM
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Do you remember where you were when the Meteor hit? I've never understood why people phrase it as a question, because of course you remember. I was in the mountains with Nathaniel. He had inherited this cabin from his father and we used to go up there for stargazing. By which I mean: sex.
— Jun 07, 2019 05:31PM
