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SpaceCamp 2: The Lawsuit

posted 15 years ago by Can_a_bitch_get_a_donut
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NASA is forced to permanently shut down in order to pay the settlements with those inadvertently put through the life-threatening trauma.

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[–] planetshane 15 years ago

No.

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[–] BuckRogersTwentyFifth 14 years ago

The government's attorneys would cite national security and have the lawsuit quashed. It's happened before.

I don't have an opinion. The word "opinion" implies the possibility I'm wrong.

[–] brch2 14 years ago

The government's attorneys would cite national security and have the lawsuit quashed. It's happened before.

There would be a few things that that might work for, BUT NASA's manned programs are not generally covered by national security... in fact, with a few exceptions, NASA is required to provide most of their information to the public.

However, while the parents may be going through emotional trauma, it'd be difficult to claim the kids are suffering any negative side effects of the malfunction. It could be claimed that they were suffering during the mission (even though it'd be argued that they were too focused on getting home safely to have had that much time to think about it, true or not). And once these kids got home... they'd be famous. They would be the 5 youngest people to have been in space (though Max would officially hold that record), and each one of them would have at least one, and some of them would definitely hold multiple individual world records. So they'd be famous. Also, chances are NASA would attempt to hire them right away... there'd be a lot of things they'd want to try to learn about how the kids reacted to space, physically, mentally, and emotionally. They'd do everything they could to hire the kids, and they'd be paying them for that. On top of that, their fame and the records they set would probably net them a tidy fortune each if they took advantage of it.

"Demons run when a good man goes to war."

[–] Mighty_Duck_4 14 years ago

Next to impossible to sue the US government after the passage of the Federal Tort Claims Act. Generally you may only sue in instances of gross negligence which result in property damage, injury or death. Emotional distress won't cut it.

PS: This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R didn't exist.

[–] WyldeGoose 14 years ago

No, the next film will be: SpaceCamp 2 - The Inquiry.

The riveting story about how a bunch of NASA engineers and mission control people conceal their criminal incompetence to prevent from being fired, tried, and put in a maximum security prison for ten years for criminal misconduct.

[–] SteveResin 14 years ago

LMAO

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[–] sabino86 14 years ago

Do the kids at least get the official NASA astronaut pin?

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[–] sabino86 14 years ago

Actually, NASA charges its astronauts for their pins as well...

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[–] crockett_john 10 years ago

I don't think they would. You'd have to be an actual member of a space program to qualify.

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[–] slopmaster 9 years ago

Didn't Billy Bob Thorton get one in "Armageddon"?

[–] RVD42 11 years ago

They signed a waiver before Camp and probably another waiver before they got on the shuttle.

[–] crockett_john 10 years ago

I don't think a waiver would cover accidental launches into space.

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