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They might send up the Space Cops.

no, it is the Space Patrol http://www.solarguard.com/sphome.htm

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ST:TOS was produced for the 21 inch screen and the 21 inch budget - using sets and props designed and constructed pretty much as they would have been for 1950's Space Patrol.

The Enterprise itself is nothing more than the flying saucer from Forbidden Planet thinly disguised by [structurally implausible and rather awkward] external elements added for visual appeal.

Check out this link for photos and more information:

http://www.solarguard.com/tccast5.htm

Unfortunately for these early space cadets, gravity generators had yet to be invented.

That's easy - there was a lot interest in sci-fi in the 50's, like early tv's Tom Corbet, interplanetary officer candidate.

Some people don't have time to rewrite a nicely worded article, so they post a link to someone else's. I think your also forgetting about sites that provide their own content like Ars Technica and HardOCP which were smallfry's a few years back. The number of "E-zines" and blog sites are continually growing, so people will less and less quote from the Times, The New Scientist or the BBC because they'll find the news elsewhere. And more so if the big fish want to inconvenience their readership with registration.

And then you'll have content that noone has written something up for, so that gives the reader his/her chance to be famous for a day. Look!!! I just found a nice layout of a Terra V rocket. Some people might find this interesting, regardless of the credibility of me or the site. Or take someone's writeup of RoboSapien, or someone else plugging his own webblog because he received a check from the RIAA, or someone plugging their personal coverage of the CodeCon conference, etc. This notion of credibility-by-link should have been shattered as soon as you saw this troll get posted.

Your statement is analagous to the trustworthiness of proprietary code because the corporation is credible or well known. Which means on the flipside that because many open-source coders aren't "credible", then the code should not be trustworthy. Both are bad logic, and sometimes slashdot mods are like that after going through a mind-numbing XY,000+ submissions per day, but it doesnt hold true enough to call it law.

Tom Corbett? Man that's going back! (If you /.'ers just said WTF, click HERE)
I'm not sure if my life is worth setting, but the point is, as a massive show of force, the U.S. sent everything they had available to 'liberate' Iraq, which, after they dropped more than the required amount of very expensive bombs in their shock and awe campaign, they had way too many troops running around that they had to feed, transport, and supervise.

ANd if I took anything personally on this blog, I wouldn't have used this nick, and I probably would have killed myself after the first flame war. And it is a crappy Friday here too, but it's better than work.

A little seen nugget at The Enterprise Mission begins "Occasionally, something comes across our desks that is so obvious, so undeniable, so conspiratorial, that we just can't help but rub our critics noses in it."

This article links the current NEAR mssion to a View-Master reel from the 1950's. In a nutshell (it goes way deeper) there is a building on Eros, known about for decades, and they are going to check it out!

NEAR has taken a pic of the building already (spot it here) and if you compare it to the reel, you'll be spouting "Yikes" all day.


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