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I have some good friends who are now married, but who actually met at McMurdo. (and the winner for best location in a "How We Met Story" goes to...) Anyway they've shown me some slideshows and videos they made down there. They... well there's not a lot to do for fun. Also with the drinking.
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Even if there was tons to do for fun, I maintain that being locked inside with the same group of people for a long period of time, knowing you couldn't survive outside, the darkness, being cut off from humanity...I think the carnal instincts would become quite aggressive. Sort of an act of life in the midst of death. Kind of. A bit.
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Go back to your room and think about what you've just said young man.
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It's a studio...I'm already in my room B)
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Y'see that's what makes me think that they've definately tried having sex in space. Especially on those long ISS missions. If not they'll definately give it a go on the way to Mars.
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I would've thought that anyway. Sex in space? Chance of a lifetime. "Look, I'm a woman, you're a man, we're in outer-fucking-space."
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Wouldn't it be a bit hard to...uh...gain momentum for thrusts and all? You would need to be strapped in, and have something to give "him" the leverage to thrust, and something for "her" to be supported by, so that the momentum from his thrust doesn't just push her off of him.
I remember the scene of Bond and a girl having sex in " Moonraker". That was funny, with the sheet hanging off of them at a 90 degree angle and all.
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I think the 'strapped in' would take care of all the leverage issues. But, you know, there's no need for violent thrusting movements that simply holding on can't counteract B) Be gentle...
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Presumably, some sort of crash helmet would be required.
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That place sounds more like a Roman orgy than at science outpost. Who's up for ice poon?
This makes me wonder what all those scientist were doing on those remote outposts on TNG.
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Well, serious question now, what else could you do? I mean besides entertain yourself (in whatever manner you choose). I.E., what the fuck do they *do* all winter down there? (Besides study the Ancient outpost of course ;P) I mean, they can't go outside, so they can't be drilling ice cores or whatever. Are they...constantly checking the thermometer and writing it down in a log?
For that matter what do they do during the summer? Ice core samples is about all I can even think of. I've heard Antarctica is a protected international place for its scientific value, but it's only just occurred to me to wonder what scientific value a giant chunk of ice and rock could possibly have. (Again, beyond those neat-o core samples what with the showing of the oxygen values a million years ago and so on and so forth).
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