Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for September 09, 2024

Another great example of privatization. So much cheaper and efficient to pay a big company.

♫ Hex FF bottles of beer on the wall, hex FF bottles of beer. . . ♫

Boeing should send up a 737 to rescue them!!!!

Stranded? They’re experienced astronauts who get to spend several more months doing what they love to do!

thats what happens when you name the capsule the minnow

No change of clothes and no way to wash them. That station will need to be aired out after they leave.

The safer version sung at my school was “If one of those bottles should happen to fall, 98 bottles of beer on the wall.” With no gravity, they probably won’t sing that version.

Don’t remember where I heard it – but I like the idea that we have until then to distribute 8 billion gorilla costumes for the ultimate prank

This wouldn’t be a problem if we’d build a space elevator. Just don’t give Boeing the contract to build it.

Maybe them aliens can helps by lending a UFO.

They are both only around 60 years old.

Next: The effects of long-term zero gravity on menopause.

I wonder if she has enough birth control pills, or he has enough condoms? Maybe one or both are sterile. Inquiring minds want to know.

I have to wonder: what about food? Do they stock enough rations for that long? And where do they dump all that sewage?

Useful research, indeed??

Are you sure that Brewster isn’t there with them, entertainment factor and all!

I hope they’re really good friends now, and after 6 more months of nothing but themselves to rely on for entertainment, they are still good friends.

The problem is that there are nine astronauts, but only seven seats on the craft that they might need to evacuate.

I do hope that they get time and a half for their extended stay, but probably not, no Astronaut Union.

Actually, I think those on the ground have been pounding beers…

Meanwhile, we’ll be purchasing millions of ape costumes in preparation for their return

Wait! They have beer on the station! Who knew.

I wonder if they are growing potatoes.

Trump woulda got ‘em down. Unless they’d a blowed up, but hey, astronauts die sometimes. “Oh, we’re not sure it’d be safe!” Haw….Snowflake astronauts.

This is embarrassing

And after 3 rounds of ‘99 bottles of beer’ their fellow astronauts shoved them out the airlock.

1) Not “stranded”, the GET to stay longer.2) they’re professional astronauts, this is what they’ve dreamed of all their lives.3) They aren’t alone, they’re part of the crew on board.

When I first heard the news, my first thought was it must seem like Christmas to Sunita and Butch.

if only they had 99 bottles of beer

Just a second. none of those bottles of beer will fall.

It’s a good thing the ISS is not run by Hilton. The maids are on strike and their rooms wouldn’t be cleaned.

Here’s hoping they have Disney+!

They’ll be turning the International Space Station into a Play Station. At least their thumbs won’t atrophy in space.

I wouldn’t make jokes about this yet. What if they die before they can be rescued?

Might be a couple more “astronauts” along the way

-99 bottles of bear on the wall, -99 bottles of bear on the wall, if one of those bottles should fall, -100 bottles of bear on the wall…

Their ride home is coming.