Shuttle pilot is a gamer!

[Zander]

Jim Kelly, the shuttle's new pilot, is a (former?) D&D gamer.

http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050425/NEWS02/504250336

What little the article says about his gaming is pretty positive.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

I guess it's a good thing the IDF doesn't run NASA.

 

[Zander]

I guess it's a good thing the IDF doesn't run NASA.

Indeed. We better warn them that an 'unstable' pilot in control of the shuttle might be passing over-head!

 

[cmanos]

well, you know, he IS a satan worshipper.....all D&D gamers are....

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Wonder how he's gonna get the dice to stop rolling in zero G?

 

[drothgery]

Just write a dice-roller program and put it on a PDA.

 

[Rodrigo Istalindir]

Just write a dice-roller program and put it on a PDA.

Bah. You can't call yourself a gamer if you don't roll your own dice.

 

[Henry]

well, you know, he IS a satan worshipper.....all D&D gamers are....

Why do you need to be a Satan worshipper, when you are a devil yourself?

...Physics teacher Keith Summerson, 63, remembers Kelly as a congenial, "bright-eyed devil" who liked to gather with his friends during his senior year in 1982.

Btw, I'll slide this to off-topic.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

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HEHEHE!

 

[Rel]

Wonder how he's gonna get the dice to stop rolling in zero G?

Magnets would probably give you fewer "cocked" results. But who could resist the allure of velcro dice?