I usually glaze over gun love stories favoured by a niche market in the blogosphere, but this one caught my interest.
Russian Cosmonauts will go into space for the first time in 20 years without a space pistol. Apparently it was not designed to repel marauding Martians seeking to gain access to space rations, but for self defence if they landed in god forbid, Kansas. The guns are now outdated and have less value than a pop gun in the deadly department. I can imagine that I would back down if had a spaceman wielding a pistol and shouting loudly in Russian however, so perhaps that is enough.
It is understood that instead of the gun, they will be armed with Uranium 232 pellet firing umbrellas favoured by the KGB, a large wooden cudgel, the sound track from Dr Zhivago and pictures of Paris Hilton to deter would be intruders.
Thanks for the Gun Story Mr Englishman
