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06 Feb 2007, 9:23 pm

I just saw this on the midday ABC (Australian) news, and I thought, WTF? This is really scary. Does NASA give out pensions due to PTS?

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/20 ... 841648.htm


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06 Feb 2007, 9:41 pm

Sorry Quatermass, old chap ! ! I beat you to the punch with this one. Check the News Forum for NT Love Gone Wrong. And yes, it's a freaky story.


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06 Feb 2007, 9:47 pm

Didn't see that! I'll check it out.

(Why is it, whenever I see that avatar that, I think, is of PT Barnum shouting, I think of Stephen Fry as General Melchett going "Baaahh!", from Blackadder Goes Forth)


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07 Feb 2007, 12:17 am

Quatermass: probably

...not a good thing if NASA's budget cuts are forcing them to scrap psychological testing... :P