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Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 22:35:01 EDT
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From: LShilkoff.ES@Xerox.ARPA

I just heard on the radio NASA is planning for experiments involving
intimate relations on board the future space station with married
couples and couples with "significant relationships". 

Question: How do you avoid moving from a stationary point in space while
having intimate relations.

I understand the first space based birth control device will be called
the heat shield :-)


sorryijusthadto


Larry

 

Article-I.D.: <646@bgsuvax.UUCP>
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> . . . NASA is planning for experiments involving
> intimate relations on board the future space station with married
> couples and couples with "significant relationships". 
> 
> Question: How do you avoid moving from a stationary point in space while
> having intimate relations.
> 
> I understand the first space based birth control device will be called
> the heat shield :-)
> 
> Larry

  Uh, just a few questions, Larry.  What is a "significant relationship"?
Does lust count for anything?  And I heard that these "heat sheilds" are
having problems.  They are falling off and cracking during 'liftoff' and
especially during 'reentry'.  Any truth to these rumours? :-)

                               Steven Schultz
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            "You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant,
                               excepting Alice"
               -Arlo Guthrie "Alice's Restaurant Massacree"
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Article-I.D.: <338@kontron.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 14:07:01 EDT
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> From: LShilkoff.ES@Xerox.ARPA
> 
> Question: How do you avoid moving from a stationary point in space while
> having intimate relations.
> 
Answer: Bunjee cords
[Perhaps the Russians have already tried it]

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Date: Fri, 12-Jul-85 00:57:43 EDT
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> 
> 
> > . . . NASA is planning for experiments involving
> > intimate relations on board the future space station with married
> > couples and couples with "significant relationships". 
> > 
> > Question: How do you avoid moving from a stationary point in space while
> > having intimate relations.
> > 
> > I understand the first space based birth control device will be called
> > the heat shield :-)
> > 
> > Larry
> 
>   Uh, just a few questions, Larry.  What is a "significant relationship"?
> Does lust count for anything?  And I heard that these "heat sheilds" are
> having problems.  They are falling off and cracking during 'liftoff' and
> especially during 'reentry'.  Any truth to these rumours? :-)
> 
>                                Steven Schultz
> ===============================================================================
>             "You can get anything you want, at Alice's Restaurant,
>                                excepting Alice"
>                -Arlo Guthrie "Alice's Restaurant Massacree"
> ===============================================================================
>             PATH:  uw-beaver!ihnp4!cbosgd!osu-eddie!bgsuvax!schultz
> ===============================================================================

you know what roert heinlin says

"in a space suit built for 2 "

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Article-I.D.: <2641@mordor.UUCP>
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From: Rick McGeer (on an aaa-60-s) 

	Quite aside from the sniggering in this matter, there's a serious
question here.  Can humans conceive and reproduce in free fall? Maybe it
will never matter (the O'Neill colony will have artificial gravity) but we
still should find out.

	The effects of free fall on a fetus can't be measured until the
space station goes up, and for that matter the effects on a human fetus
shouldn't be explored at all until there has been at least one animal
(preferably primate) pregnancy and birth in space.  However, we can test the
ability to conceive right now: send a pair of rabbits up, with the female
due to go in heat while in orbit.  This test wouldn't prove the negative
result conclusively if the rabbits refused to Do It, but that (knowing
rabbits) is fairly unlikely....

					Rick.

Article-I.D.: <1337@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 09:05:47 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 17 09:05:47 1985
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Summary: 

In article <2641@mordor.UUCP> @S1-A.ARPA,@MIT-MC.ARPA:mcgeer%ucbkim@Berkeley writes:
>
>	Quite aside from the sniggering in this matter, there's a serious
>question here.  Can humans conceive and reproduce in free fall? Maybe it
>will never matter (the O'Neill colony will have artificial gravity) but we
>still should find out.
>
	Come now! Do you really have any doubts???
	Of coarse not! We know what's going on in your mind.
	You want confirmation of Newton's third law!!!

Cheers,		Fred Williams

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Date: Tue, 16-Jul-85 01:10:18 EDT
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From: Lars Poulsen 


From "The Weekly" of Santa Barbara, July 11th, comes this little
filler piece titled ''SEX IN SPACE'':
''Seeking to ensure the success of space missions, NASA has to be
sensitive to the needs of its crew members. With the first US space
station scheduled to go up in 1992, and "manned" by members of
both sexes, provisions for some extra-terestrial nookie are cur-
rently being explored. According to Yvonne Clearwater, an envir-
onmental psychologist for the space agency, normal, healthy
professionals will probably possess normal, healthy sexual appe-
tites. It isn't NASA's job to make moral judgments, just to make
sure the station's scientific work isn't disrupted. And that, says
Clearwater, means providing an "environment where needs for
auditory and visual privacy are met."''
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>> ... NASA is planning for experiments involving intimate relations on board
>> the future space station with married couples ...
>> 
>> Question: How do you avoid moving from a stationary point in space while
>> having intimate relations.

From Eros Rising (Volume I of Tales of The Velvet Comet) by Mike Resnick:

"Never try to make love in free fall; you can strain everything you've got!"
-- 

Paul Hoefling
Information Pack Rat
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Posted: Sun Jul 21 15:13:43 1985
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[]

	I dont see any problems with positioning
(a modified 'Rocking Chair' position seems reasonable),
and this could lead to a small retail business providing
'Space Bondage' devices to prevent sudden undocking.

		Key-Man (and the Masters of Technology)

Article-I.D.: timeinc.348
Posted: Mon Jul 22 16:01:20 1985
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Summary: 

Doesn't the idea of intimate relations somehow tie in with the idea
of how you move in space with no, er, reaction pistol???

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Article-I.D.: wuphys.329
Posted: Mon Jul 22 13:52:29 1985
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In article <1337@mnetor.UUCP> fred@mnetor.UUCP (Fred Williams) writes:
>In article <2641@mordor.UUCP> @S1-A.ARPA,@MIT-MC.ARPA:mcgeer%ucbkim@Berkeley writes:
>>
>>	Quite aside from the sniggering in this matter, there's a serious
>>question here.  Can humans conceive and reproduce in free fall?
>>
>	Come now! Do you really have any doubts???
>	Of coarse not! We know what's going on in your mind.
>	You want confirmation of Newton's third law!!!
>
>Cheers,		Fred Williams

I know it sounds silly, but, all seriousness aside, did you ever hear of
rubber-bands?  A couple of these, strategically located, could do wonders.


						Mark F. Flynn
						Department of Physics
						Washington University
						St. Louis, MO  63130
						ihnp4!wuphys!mff

"There is no dark side of the moon, really.
 Matter of fact, it's all dark."

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