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[-] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 345 points 6 days ago

FWIW, she was cleared and her ex-wife charged with making false statements.

[-] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 148 points 6 days ago

This shouldn’t be omitted from the meme. Astronauts are some of the most level-minded people in this world, given the risks they face every moment.

I don’t think jealousy or insecurity would be a common occurrence given how busy they are.

[-] TheBannedLemming@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago

Actually, there was a high profile and notorious case of a female NASA astronaut and Naval officer named Lisa Nowak, who was placed on trail and convicted of felony burglary and misdemeanor assault charges. This all stemmed from an affair she was having with a fellow astronaut named Bill Oefelein, who both of them were married to different people at the time.

When Bill decided to call the affair off and started to see another woman, an Air Force Captain named Colleen Shipman. Lisa had an emotional breakdown and after her own marriage had failed. Planned on possibly kidnapping Colleen. She was eventually arrested at Orlando International Airport that she had followed Colleen to. Besides the criminal convictions listed above, she was dismissed from NASA and demoted in rank and forcibly retired from the Navy.

[-] TeamAssimilation@infosec.pub 19 points 6 days ago

I don’t know man, this seems like an obvious case of alien body snatching. They just never learned to act like regular humans.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 days ago

Don't forget about the part where she wore a diaper while driving so she wouldn't have to make any pit stops.

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[-] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Nowak

There are exceptions to the whole level minded thing.

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 23 points 5 days ago

I know this is the poop drive without even opening the link.

[-] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Among other things.

[-] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Putting those diapers to good use

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 6 points 5 days ago

Well she says she did not use them (I guess just shitting in place)

"She drove her husband's car 900 miles (1,400 km) from Houston, Texas, to Orlando, Florida, to confront Shipman. Early police reports stated that she wore Maximum Absorbency Garments during the trip, but she later denied this."

From Wikipedia, but it must be noted the trip was made by herself in such a short time that poop had to happen.

[-] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago

Sometimes you gotta poop in the McDonald’s bathroom despite everything you know about life.

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

From what I remember about the trip, she would not have had time. It was a road trip that made the cannonball run look tame.

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[-] RamenJunkie@midwest.social 5 points 6 days ago

Yeah but what the hell am I supposed to do woth this novel drsft Lesbian Space Criminal Lovers now?

Why was I not told sooner the story was a lie???

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[-] Carl@hexbear.net 42 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"lesbians are accused in 100% of space crimes" is a much less fun statistic.

[-] principalkohoutek@hexbear.net 11 points 6 days ago

Lesbians continue to flaunt their spotless space criminal record

[-] huf@hexbear.net 3 points 5 days ago

i dont want to have to see them not do crimes, please do that in your own room

[-] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 days ago

The original statement is still vacuously true so your can keep saying it :D

[-] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 71 points 6 days ago

Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Identity Theft doesn't quite have the same ring to it

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 38 points 6 days ago
[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Headlining this Friday night! With special guest Gay Zombie Super Soldiers! $10 at the door, 21 and up, doors open at 8pm.

[-] lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago

"Falgsith" for short

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Wait when did it change from laser to luxury I missed the update

[-] rockerface@lemmy.cafe 4 points 5 days ago

Welcome to the future, old man

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 35 points 6 days ago

Your Honor, with all due respect, my client can only be put on trial by a space judge and a jury of her space peers

[-] booty@hexbear.net 10 points 6 days ago

A jury of astronauts would be kind of fun if it were possible for them not to know each other already, but I don't think that's possible with the current number of astronauts

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[-] TomMasz@piefed.social 30 points 6 days ago

Is ISS network traffic monitored? Because if it is, this was a really dumb crime.

[-] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 59 points 6 days ago

To my understanding, she wasn't determined to have actually committed it, just was accused

[-] Cort@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago

Yup:

The claims were later found to be false, and McClain was cleared.[28] On April 7, 2020, Worden was indicted on two charges of making false statements.

[-] jrubal1462@mander.xyz 8 points 5 days ago

Please tell me this entire thing wasn't an elaborate add for NordVPN.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

It's probably fully recorded. Everything in and out.

That way if there's a mishap it's possible to go back and reconstruct the entire sequence or to replay high fidelity simulations of the network traffic at the equipment to reproduce problems.

[-] snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 days ago

Probably safe to assume that it is.

[-] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 23 points 6 days ago
[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Yeah but she wasn't in space just had a space diaper.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Distinction without a difference. If you're wearing the space diaper you're basically experiencing everything there is to experience about space.

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[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 5 days ago

I thought some of the Apollo astronauts were illegally enriching themselves by selling a service where they would take people's stuff to the moon in their private gear allowance, and then give it back.

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[-] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Didn't someone already commit theft in space?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago
[-] don@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 days ago

username checks out

[-] too_high_for_this@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

There was also the hole drilled in the ISS. AFAIK, nobody was ever held responsible but it was definitely vandalism at least.

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[-] lvnelrs@programming.dev 8 points 6 days ago

smash the patriachy by being the first criminal in space.

[-] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Bringing "Be Gay Do Crime" to another level

Sounds like there may be a jurisdiction problem.

Is space international waters? Does anything go?

[-] UnmetPlayer@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Ships in intl waters are still governed by the laws of their flag state. I don't see why this wouldn't also apply to the ISS as a US-flagged vessel

Edit: I assume the modules are flagged differently. I imagine Zvezda and the Soyuz's are flagged Russian, etc. or maybe the ISS is jointly flagged under US and Russian laws at the same time. Or the laws of the citizens home country is applied individually or something.

Are you saying that the simpsons lied to me?

[-] don@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago
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[-] IcedRaktajino@startrek.website 4 points 6 days ago

Someone with musical talent, please start a band and name it "Lesbian Space Crimes" 😆

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