Mission after mission successfully sent men first into orbit, then onto the surface of the moon.
Despite the successes, there were some failures, as well-most notably the launch pad fire that killed astronaut Gus Grissom. There was, however, another failure-a catastrophic one-which was never brought before the attention of the public. It is within the scope of this failure that we find the beginnings of the Bionic Geniuses.
May 1, 1972 was a bright, crisp spring day. On the launch pad at Cape Kennedy a rocket steamed away, ready for takeoff. It wasn’t one of the well-known Apollo missions, however; it was part of a series of top-secret missions in which American astronauts explored space beyond Earth’s moon-indeed, beyond our solar system. On this day, three of NASA’s best-Alan Houser, Roy Smith and Terry Coffey-were scheduled to travel to a distant galaxy as part of a trade mission. Something went horribly wrong, and just beyond the reaches of our solar system their ship passed through a strange belt of radiation and they crash-landed on an unknown planet inhabited by a race of scientifically-superior beings. The intrepid astronauts’ bodies were intact, but their brains had been destroyed by the radiation. Fortunately, the planet’s inhabitants were able to rebuild their brains as mechanical devices. Newly equipped with their new bionic brains, Alan, Roy and Terry returned to Earth. They used their superior bionic brains to help America win the Cold War, before retiring in the early 1990s.
Now working as secret interstellar contractors for NASA, and periodically putting their bionic brains into new bodies, Alan, Roy and Terry are sharing their bionic genius with the world via a podcast, the Bionic Genius Rountable.
the Bionic Genius Roundtable » Bionic Train Wreck | Podcast Episode 0000014 Says:
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moshu Says:
March 6th, 2006 at 7:34 pmVisit moshu
Not entirely true…
What about Юрий Алексеевич Гагарин?
[for those less informed: Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin]
Bionic Terry Says:
March 7th, 2006 at 10:55 amVisit Bionic Terry
The official response from the Bionic Grammarian:
Alas, it is the lot of a Bionic Genius to be misunderstood.
Moshu is correct in stating that Yuri, and not an American astronaut, was the first man in space; however, I never said an American astronaut was first in space.
If you will go back to my original sentence, it states: “Mission after mission successfully sent men first into orbit, then onto the surface of the moon.” As any grammarian and sentence structural engineer will know, this sentence simply means that men were sent into orbit by NASA before going to the moon.
Thank you. You may now put your heads down on your desks and close your eyes for five minutes.
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July 11th, 2006 at 3:21 pmVisit ThePublishingSpot
The Podcast Junket Trail…
Our videoblogged Five Easy Questions features Paul Malmont this week, a novelist nearing the end of a tour of the podcast circuit. I’m always cheered by new media and bookish interaction, so I wanted to point out some the……