Posted by Lieve on
URL: https://www.shado-forum.com/New-Person-tp1489453p1489556.html

Hi All,

I'm catching up an email after more than 2 computerless weeks (I should
have kept my old computer, this one seems to have problem after problem, 2
new mainboards, new power supply, microprocessor is faulty, just as well
it's under warranty still)

James wrote:

>If you mean that the Russian submarine disaster made you
>think of Subsmash, and gave an added sense of the
>claustrophobia and panic that must have set in, I think I
>understand what you mean, though as we now know, sadly,
>what those poor sailors on the Kursk suffered was far worse
>than Straker and the Skydiver crew experienced. Freezing
>cold, and the submarine slowly flooding completely with
>seawater while they were helpless to escape.

This comment together with the comment made about the Interceptors and how
the pilots would probably have preferred a quick death rather than have
pressurised suits and float around space waiting to be found (by aliens,
probably, and used for spare parts), made me think about what someone said
to mu hubby the other day: that in Russia most likely every army or navy
guy going on a dangerous mission would have one of those pills that cause
one to die instantly. Cyanide, I guess? Wouldn't SHADO personnel carry those?

CU

Lieve



Col. Lieve Peten, Commander MarsBase - Mailto:[hidden email]

"That's what life is all about, I guess - The things we never say."
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