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It was quite literally a lifesaver for the astronauts aboard the Apollo 13 spacecraft. Without it they would have been a asphyxiated long before they reached home. Without duct tape there's no way they could have rigged up a carbon dioxide filter to filter the air they were breathing after that onboard explosion took out two of their main oxygen tanks. I've always thought a great advertising slogan would be "Duct Tape. Don't leave Earth without it." Last edited by WT Sharpe; 03-27-2015 at 12:03 AM. |
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03-27-2015, 03:15 PM | #2507 |
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"...know yourself, not the exterior which one sees in the mirror but the interior of your heart with all its good and bad leanings."
~My third great grandmother, Elizabeth Hauser Hindermann in a 1906 letter to her granddaughter, my great-grandmother, rough translation from the French |
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04-10-2015, 09:21 AM | #2509 |
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"This world was designed from the ground up to hurt us, to break us, all of us, into the tiniest little pieces." ~The Evil Hours: A Biography of Pose-Traumatic Stress Disorder by David J. Morris
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04-12-2015, 02:48 AM | #2510 |
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'Then he went on to wonder if the lives of one generation were but a repetition of the lives of those who had gone before, with no variation but from the internal cause that some had greater capacity for suffering than others.'
from Sylvia's Lovers, by Elizabeth Gaskell |
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04-12-2015, 02:18 PM | #2511 |
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"To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else."
― Joseph Heller, Catch-22 |
04-12-2015, 03:31 PM | #2512 |
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"I’m in the entertainment business. My function in life for the most part is
to take people out of their lives and put them somewhere else." - Tom Clancy (The Hunt for Red October, etc.) |
04-13-2015, 08:46 AM | #2513 |
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"An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings."
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04-16-2015, 07:38 AM | #2514 |
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"It was a really heavy feather."
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04-17-2015, 08:54 AM | #2515 |
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird |
04-22-2015, 09:12 AM | #2516 |
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"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn."
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04-22-2015, 03:05 PM | #2517 |
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Alma had been allowed to stay in school to the completion of third grade, then was sent to work some years in her daddy’s fields before finding her way to town and becoming a laundress, a cook, an all-purpose maid. She lost two sons along the way, her husband, her sister, and earned but little, always one dropped dish and a loud reprimand from complete and utter poverty. She lived scared and angry, a life full of permanent grievances, sharp animosities and cold memories for all who’d ever crossed us, any of us, ever. Alma DeGeer Dunahew, with her pinched, hostile nature, her dark obsessions and primal need for revenge, was the big red heart of our family, the true heart, the one we keep secret and that sustains us.
It was years before I learned to love her. Daniel Woodrell The Maid's Version |
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"Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima." - Kurt Vonnegut, Bennington College address
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04-22-2015, 04:14 PM | #2519 |
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"They landed. It's a short sentence, but contains a lot of incident."
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04-24-2015, 05:50 AM | #2520 |
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