Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>
> At 08:46 PM 11/8/02, Julia Thompson wrote:
> >Ronn Blankenship wrote:
> > > *The middle finger of the gloves was stiffened so the astronauts could use
> > > it to press buttons on the control panel, which proved to be too difficult
> > > to do with the gloves if a finger was not stiffened for that purpose. You
> > > will have to ask NASA why it was _that_ particular finger . . . maybe since
> > > many of the missions splashed down in the Pacific near Hawaii, they wanted
> > > all the good luck they could get . . .
> >
> >OK, just stiffen up your hand and bring it straight down onto your
> >keyboard. Which finger hits first by virtue of extending a little
> >farther than any of the others? Wouldn't it make sense to stiffen that
> >one for button-pressing?
>
> Yes, that was the real reason . . . but it's not as funny an explanation of
> the glove to give to someone who thinks of the index finger as the finger
> they usually use for pushing buttons (generally _without_ heavy, stiff
> gloves) . . . ;-)
Well, heck, some people use the middle finger to push other people's
buttons quite often. ;)
Julia
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