Here's some funny stuff I've seen at NASA...
First, some JSC engineers hard at work in their morning meeting in the Shuttle Training Facility...
Next, a closeup of the stickers on the tables their sitting at... just standard folding tables here, like you'd have at a PTA picnic or something...
And another closeup...
Now, these are NASA ENGINEERS for pity's sake... REAL honest-to-goodness rocket scientists... and they have to be reminded about GRAVITY and center of gravity and not to sit on the ends of lightweight tables so you don't go @$$ over teakettle?? Hoo-boy...
This one was in the Shuttle Training Facility as well, about 30-40 yards down from the ISS training area where the meeting was taking place... In the shuttle cabin trainer area, where they practice egress from a crashed shuttle (by rappelling down the side of the orbiter mockup by going out the windows, presumably into the water...)
Apparently that vacuum's only purpose is to provide suction to deflate "Mae West" floatation devices or something... the only other possible use for "evacuating bladders only" would tend to get very messy and very smelly in short order, I'd imagine... (plus might get you arrested for making love to shop equipment...LOL
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Finally, from our visit to Kennedy Space Center this past summer, on our tour of Pad 39A, the sign from inside the protected area to describe the alert system...
Again, these are NASA "rocket scientists" with, in many cases, close to a decade or more of undergraduate and post-graduate study, and yet they misspelled "personnel"...
You can't make up stuff this good...
What's even funnier?? At Epcot, on the "Mission to Mars" ride, as you walk through the "Mission Control" area while standing in line for the ride and make your way down the hallway to the ride entrance a SIMILAR sign is spelled CORRECTLY... *DOH!*... so it's WRONG on the real thing, but RIGHT on the FAKE...
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Later! OL JR