Space Blankets

[Image removed]Yesterday I discovered that the dark navy overcoat I brought out to England is surprisingly warm. It does a better job of keeping me warm than my leather jacket, which I thought was my warmest piece of clothing here, due to its thick fluffy inner lining. My overcoat not made of wool, and is in fact incredibly thin.

The only explanation I can think of is that the plastic-like lining inside this thing (which, incidentally, is rain proof since the coat is reversible) is secretly a space blanket. Space blankets, along with Tang and that pen than can inexplicably write in any position ever,* is one of the great things to come out of NASA during the space race. Never mind that landing on the moon stuff.

Although it doesn’t look like NASA has done much recently aside from providing public explosions, I think there’s still some deep-seated sense of glamour in searching the stars for other aliens and, more importantly, a better way to preserve space piss. Let’s face it, who doesn’t want to be an astronaut?

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* I’m not sure which is more impressive: that NASA spent hundreds of thousand dollars inventing a pen that would write in zero-g, or that Russia just used pencils.