omg! did anyone here the sexist comments head of Russian space agency said?
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Later, Perminov referred to a naval superstition that having women aboard a ship was bad luck when asked about the presence of two women on the Soyuz.
"You know in Russia, there are certain bad omens about this sort of thing, but thank God that everything worked out successfully," he said. "Of course in the future, we will work somehow to ensure that the number of women will not surpass" the number of men.
Challenged by a reporter, Perminov responded: "This isn't discrimination. I'm just saying that when a majority (of the crew) is female, sometimes certain kinds of unsanctioned behavior or something else occurs, that's what I'm talking about." He did not elaborate.
"unsanctioned behaviour"??
Like what, everyone getting their period in sync?
Meara, much ~ma to your ex.
"unsanctioned behaviour"??
Like what, everyone getting their period in sync?
ya, and that obviously changed the trajectory of the descent and caused them to be several HUNDRED miles off target.
Sadly, it will likely be killed in a beautiful expression of repurposing the cool bits.
Nope. I was actually wearing the Jack Skellington hoodie last night, while flopping on the couch.
I DID NOT SUMMON THE SNOW DEMONS. Why would I summon them when it resulted in screwing up my weekend plans? Hmmph.
To ease my guilt at feeling too crap to drive up? In which case, thank you because I am full of ick and yet still full of bitterness too. The weather is making me feel a little better about it all.
It's a darling hoodie, really.
For the second time in as many weeks someone has set up an account somewhere using my email addres and their personal info.
The first one had a provision for cancelling the account.
Today, iTunes did not.
So I went in and changed every iota of personal information in the account, including password and challenge questions to my own info.
Then I sent an email to the iTunes support team giving the original setup account info and letting them know they might want to check for another account with that info and let the owner know to be more careful, ok?
I doubt they will, but scary anyway.
Damn, Daniel - that really sucks.
Do you have an evil twin? Check for goatees.
I am here in Moab, Utah, which is so red and rocky and beautiful that I can't believe it. This is what it actually looks like. [link] Along with about 5 other journalist/guests, we spent the day driving off-road through really bumpy terrain. Unlike most off-road vehicles where you want to power over the bumps, in a Land Rover you drive incredibly slowly (slower than walking) and use the physics of the car and its special susepnsion and other cool technical things to climb over anything and go up and down the steepest hills I have ever seen. We even drove over a v-shaped cleft, with the wheels straddling each side of the V and NOTHING under the middle of the car, like this: [link]
Plus they are giving us great food and the other journalists are fun to hang out with. It's wonderful.
![[link]](http://gallery.off-road.com/photobb/data/526/medium/24988dsc00525.jpg){kind=link}