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Re: YASID space station underwear for reaction mass

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In article <560b392b-4771-4d15-a75f-0127d1da7eef@googlegroups.com>,
Nyrath  <winchellchung@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
>That's it! Thank you so much!

Could you propel yourself by directed exhalation?  (Maybe if you turned your
head the opposite way to inhale?)

Of course I presume there was air circulation anyway, else people would
suffocate in CO2 pools, but I suppose that would take too long to get wafted
to an intake vent.
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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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