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#1790070 - 02/28/13 03:33 PM
You say that you love your spouse...
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But could you spend 501 days locked in tin can in outer space with him or her? http://www.newsday.com/news/world/tycoon...flyby-1.4725435WASHINGTON - It's a road trip that could test the best of marriages: Mars. A tycoon announced plans Wednesday to send a middle-aged couple on a privately built spaceship to slingshot around the red planet and come back home, hopefully with their bodies and marriage in one piece after 501 days of no-escape togetherness in a cramped capsule half the size of an RV. The trying circumstances include: no showers, limits on toilet paper and clothing, drinking water made from the crew members' recycled urine and sweat, and almost no privacy. But the flight also comes with never-before-seen views of Mars. And there's ample time for zero-gravity sex in space, something NASA doesn't like to talk about.
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#1790086 - 02/28/13 03:46 PM
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This sounds like a cool experience, until the 144th solid day. With no break. And no escape. When there's not a sharp item in sight.
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#1790093 - 02/28/13 03:47 PM
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My husband wouldn't last the first week.....
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#1790097 - 02/28/13 03:48 PM
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Recycled urine and sweat?
::shudders::
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#1790098 - 02/28/13 03:48 PM
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Well, duh(!) Deek. Everyone knows there's no smoking in space. Plus, even with filling the cargo hold with Tanq, you'd really only have a week or two supply. Tops.
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#1790107 - 02/28/13 03:53 PM
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Simple answer: No way. yet you manage to stay engaged for more than 501 days
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#1790117 - 02/28/13 04:00 PM
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People change. Feelings change. It doesn’t mean the love once shared wasn’t true and real, it simply means that sometimes when people grow, they grow apart.
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#1790118 - 02/28/13 04:01 PM
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Simple answer: No way. yet you manage to stay engaged for more than 501 days We have a townhouse, plenty of room to avoid each other.
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#1790136 - 02/28/13 04:22 PM
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501 days in those conditions would test even the best of marraiges. Personal space (and a little privacy) is something everyone needs, no matter how much they love their Sig O.
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#1790145 - 02/28/13 04:34 PM
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Dave? What are you doing, Dave? Mrs Happy: I can not go there is no shopping there.
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#1790153 - 02/28/13 04:41 PM
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Dave? What are you doing, Dave? Love that reference! I had a ring tone once for a computer geek friend of mine that was the Hal singing Daisy!
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#1790161 - 02/28/13 04:48 PM
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At least the husband would have the excuse of not being able to stop and ask for directions.
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#1790172 - 02/28/13 05:12 PM
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Give me a sufficient supply of books and I could handle doing that by myself.......
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#1790179 - 02/28/13 05:24 PM
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I didn't even think about that. What if they have a medical emergency? What if the wife gets pregnant? You are stuck out there for a year and half!
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#1790188 - 02/28/13 05:27 PM
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What if the wife gets pregnant? Maybe that's why they want a middle aged couple. That, and the avoidance of PMS and Aunt Flo. Ewwwwwww!
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#1790201 - 02/28/13 05:39 PM
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I didn't even think about that. What if they have a medical emergency? What if the wife gets pregnant? You are stuck out there for a year and half! Well when her water breaks they'll recycle it for drinking....
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#1790205 - 02/28/13 05:42 PM
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This Tang tastes like dirty feet!
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#1790214 - 02/28/13 05:48 PM
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Deleted myself. Sorry Truff.
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