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Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass

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In article <0f1a6aae-93d3-4735-a33e-acb2b6fe69aa@googlegroups.com>,
Robert Carnegie  <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote:
>On Monday, 25 June 2018 21:40:52 UTC+1, mwsto...@gmail.com  wrote:
>> On Monday, June 25, 2018 at 5:15:05 PM UTC+1, Nyrath wrote:
>> > I am pretty sure this is an old short story by Arthur C. Clark or
>Robert Heinlein.
>> > 
>> > There was a scene on an early model space station. One of the
>construction crew relates an embarrassing story. At that time the
>station had not spun up to create artificial gravity so everything was
>in free fall. The man had somehow managed to get himself stranded in the
>middle of a room, with no way to move to within grabbing distance of a
>wall hand-hold.
>> > 
>> > He figures the only thing to do is to throw an object away and use
>the recoil to propel himself towards a wall. Unfortunately he had just
>woken up so is only dressed in his underwear. He has to throw that away
>since that is the only reaction mass available.
>> > 
>> > The embarrassing part was of course that was the day the station was
>entertaining visiting VIPs who were inspecting the progress. Who were
>annoyed at the nude man frantically scrambling away down the corridor.
>> > 
>> > Does this story sound familiar?
>> 
>> 
>> It's from ACC's *The Sands of Mars*. One of the crew is describing an
>embarrassing moment when he found himself stranded in mid-air in the
>zero-g section, and using his underwear as reaction mass. Unfortunately
>the Director was showing his wife around the station, hence the man's
>change of jobs.
>> 
>> Mike Stone, Peterborough, England
>> 
>> Always drink upriver from the herd.
>
>There's a controversial Doctor Who episode where
>the Doctor uses a cricket ball; it bounces off the
>hull and he catches it.  That part is okay...
>but he is /outside/ the spaceship.

Hm, I don't think I've seen that one.  Can you remember the
title?  Which Doctor it was?

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com

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YASID space station underwear for reaction mass Nyrath <winchellchung@gmail.com> - 2018-06-25 09:15 -0700
  Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass Panthera Tigris Altaica <northerntiger@outlook.com> - 2018-06-25 09:53 -0700
  Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll> - 2018-06-25 20:16 +0200
  Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass mwstone1948@gmail.com - 2018-06-25 13:40 -0700
    Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-06-25 14:00 -0700
      Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-06-25 22:04 +0000
        Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2018-06-25 17:02 -0700
          Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-06-26 00:57 +0000
            Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass hamish.laws@gmail.com - 2018-06-25 18:02 -0700
              Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-06-25 18:12 -0700
                Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-06-25 18:39 -0700
            Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass Moriarty <blues95@ivillage.com> - 2018-06-25 18:08 -0700
          Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-06-26 04:08 +0000
            Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass hamish.laws@gmail.com - 2018-06-25 21:48 -0700
              Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-06-26 10:18 -0700
              Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) - 2018-06-26 20:24 +0000
                Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-06-26 21:31 +0000
                Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-06-26 15:36 -0700
    Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass Nyrath <winchellchung@gmail.com> - 2018-06-25 16:42 -0700
      Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-06-25 23:52 +0000
  Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass mwstone1948@gmail.com - 2018-06-26 10:15 -0700
  Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass mwstone1948@gmail.com - 2018-06-26 10:19 -0700
    Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2018-06-26 10:42 -0700
    Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-06-26 10:55 -0700
      Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) - 2018-06-26 20:33 +0000

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