Bishop Thumpety-Thump
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I love this quote from Bill Anders who flew on Apollo 8 (and took the famous Earthrise photo). Talking about Commander Frank Borman vomiting in zero gravity and how it demonstrated Newton’s laws of motion etc;
“The stuff was floating around. I grabbed an emergency oxygen mask because the smell was really bad and clamped it on because I didn't want to get sick as well...
"But I do remember watching this blob of vomitus drifting up out of the navigation bay; Lovell and I were up in the -- flying the spacecraft. And it had a three dimensional oscillation to it and I reverted to my scientific physics training and I was just amazed at the three-dimensional oscillation of this thing. You know, you don't see that on Earth because you can't simulate 0-G...
"And so I'm watching it and Lovell's sitting next to me and it's drifting kind of like this and then it split. It oscillated too much and in the laws of conservation and momentum, see, that the one piece that's going this way has to be balanced by the other piece going that way, and so we watched it and as it headed towards Lovell -- thank God -- and he was almost out of focus watching this thing splat onto his chest and spread out like a fried egg. So we spent, you know, a couple of hours going around the spacecraft with kind of paper wipes, like butterfly catchers trying to catch butterflies, mopping this stuff out of the air or off the walls.
"It was bad. You know it's amazing, after a while you didn't smell it. Not because the smell went away -- 'cause you get used to it. I guess a skunk can learn to live with himself."
