TheMojoPin
02-05-2004, 08:51 PM
OK, this is pretty random, but I heard this on NPR a little while back, and finally found it online...here's a description...
"The Navy was experimenting with sending divers to deeper and deeper
> depths for longer and longer periods of time. One of these divers- the
> former astronaut Scott Carpenter- has just set a world record: he's
> spent thirty days in the ocean at a depth of 200 feet.
>
> A pre-arranged phone call to the White House is planned. The idea is
> to have President Lyndon Johnson offer Commander Carpenter a formal
> congratulation. This is a purely ceremonial call. It should be
> cut-and-dried. But there's a bizarre problem. Commander Carpenter is
> no longer underwater; he's in a decompression chamber. He's breathing
> air in which nitrogen- the gas which can give people the bends- has
> been replaced by helium. Helium is harmless, but it distorts the
> voice. When he speaks, Commander Carpenter sounds like Mickey Mouse."
The NPR host is pretty dull and dry (Real shocker there), but the sound clip is fuckin' bizarre.
You'll need Real Player to hear it...
HEY! HEY! LBJ!!! HOW MANY BALLOONS DID YOU SUCK TODAY?!? (http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/lnfsound/19991015.lnfsound.01.rmm)
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"The Navy was experimenting with sending divers to deeper and deeper
> depths for longer and longer periods of time. One of these divers- the
> former astronaut Scott Carpenter- has just set a world record: he's
> spent thirty days in the ocean at a depth of 200 feet.
>
> A pre-arranged phone call to the White House is planned. The idea is
> to have President Lyndon Johnson offer Commander Carpenter a formal
> congratulation. This is a purely ceremonial call. It should be
> cut-and-dried. But there's a bizarre problem. Commander Carpenter is
> no longer underwater; he's in a decompression chamber. He's breathing
> air in which nitrogen- the gas which can give people the bends- has
> been replaced by helium. Helium is harmless, but it distorts the
> voice. When he speaks, Commander Carpenter sounds like Mickey Mouse."
The NPR host is pretty dull and dry (Real shocker there), but the sound clip is fuckin' bizarre.
You'll need Real Player to hear it...
HEY! HEY! LBJ!!! HOW MANY BALLOONS DID YOU SUCK TODAY?!? (http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/lnfsound/19991015.lnfsound.01.rmm)
<img src="http://scripts.cgispy.com/image.cgi?u=TheMojoPin">
2% << December boys got it BAD >> "You might tell some lies about the good times we've had/But I've kissed your mother twice...and now I'm working on your dad..."