A Sinister Trip Down Memory Lane [The Stars and the Cookie Jar]

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Tonight, Apollo 13 showed on the television.

This brought about discussion of Selkie And The Space Program.

Now, Selkie did not actually know much about the Space Program, other than that she detested freeze-dried astronaut ice cream. Selkie's efficient mental block in terms of the Space Program can best be expressed as follows:

Baby Selkie, Age Approximately 5, tours Some Random Museum In Which There Is A Pile of Soviet Space Junk.

BABY SELKIE: Whahappen to Laika the doggie?

Beat.

5...4...3...2...1...

BABY SELKIE: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!!!!!!!!!

...And then, a year later, a space ship with real, live people on it fell out of the sky in the middle of the day and left nothing on the television screen but white contrails and a pinkish-orange plume of flame, thereby ascertaining Selkie's appalled apathy for ever more.

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*laughs* My memory of that as a child is my SPOUTNICK MUSIC BOX that played a Russian tune of Glory and Triumph Over Space, with a few Bleeps to evoke the communication with said spoutnik. (I can still HUM THE TUNE, and I lost the music box when I was 8 or something).

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I dedicatedly wanted to be an astronaut from about the age of six right up until about the age of twelve, when I realized I'd have to go through military training first. And that was not going to happen. I do still like freeze-dried ice cream, though . . .

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My sister did the same thing, except that the reason she dropped that career plan wasn't quite as practical as military training- it was the concept of black holes.

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. . . How did that work?

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She learned that they existed, was afraid she'd get sucked into one, even knowing that there were none where any contemporary astronaut would possibly go, and dropped that career-path. She was also in early to mid elementary school, which may well have influenced things. But it makes for a good, and true, story.

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This may be considered heretical but what I will always associate stuff like the space program and the Challenger disaster with, is Farscape particularly their brilliant comic episode "Kansas."

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Omg, I LOVED freeze-dried ice cream! Could not get enough. And also, loved Space Stix. Yum.

Apparently I'm ok with the space program because of the food.

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