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New Russian Space Station 'Real Possibility'
su-geek writes: "BBC is reporting that the Russians are looking into the feasibility of a commercial space station. The Station would be used to promote space tourism and would help pay for future supply missions to the ISS." I think they should get into the business of crashing space stations into the Pacific, and bringing tourists on boats to watch the fireworks.
...this one will be built of 60% duct tape and 40% bailing wire, instead of the 40/60 split Mir was made of.
- A.P.
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Actully make money out of it. Hey no stupider than forming a linux distribution company.
Newsflash: intriguing new results of a survey indicate that /. audience is not at all uniformly white, protestant, and american, as it was being envisioned by the editors.
"It was a real eye-opener," says Hemos, one of the members of the editing staff, "to realize that some of my dumber comments can be perceived as offensive in some other parts of the world."
"Of course," he added after a bit of thought. "Not like we care about those unwashed filthy pigs in their silly little countries, anyway."
If you open yourself to the foo, You and foo become one.
Reminds me of the story of the "space pen". At the dawn of the space age, astronauts needed the ability to write in zero gravity environments. The trouble is that the ball point pen needs gravity to work. NASA spent a million bucks (in the 1960s, when that was still a lot) developing the "space pen" which can write in space (or upside down back here on Earth).
Facing the same problem, the Soviets used pencils.
-- Don't Tase me, bro!
Hell yeah; how many rich newlyweds would part with a few zero's to have their honeymoon in null-g? If I had the money and the girl, I know I sure would.
Dyolf Knip
I'm all down for the commercial modernization though, like having 8 space port doors to pull up some space busses, like a big Boeing 877 space bus, and the McDonalds and Wendy's module.
When we get tired of doing research, take a quick spin (literally) to the Blockbuster Module and rent some DVDs. I'd like to see how they keep the movies on the shelves from spinning. They could also have night clubs and stuff to party and get yo' groove on.
They could even build station interconnects, so that you can link Russian and US stations together. So you can vacation on the other station when you run out of entertainment. But definitely, they should have some type of "shell" module that companies could buy to run their own consumer businesses in space.
Museums, hotels.. all the stuff to make an interesting time. And you'd have to have some satellite TV to watch (can you get DirecTV from the space station? guess you'd need a special dish) No casinos, because you wouldn't want to be broke on a space station. Pay up or Vinny will shoot your ass out the bathroom hatch.
OK, I guess I'll lay off the crack now.
-Pat
Wasn't one of the real big drivers of the
early Internet PORN? I remember reading
many articles saying up to 1/2 of the traffic was porn related. This was before MP3's and broadband took over. And, of course, before the widespread availablity of ISO images of Linux and 20+M kernels every other week. Anyone remember a kernel that fit on a single floppy disk? Anyone remember loading Linux from floppies?
Why can't PORN be the big driver for space too?
With a capacity of 3, it could include the commander and some newlyweds. Or it could include the commander and two actors. If the commander is taught how to run a camera, well.... Didn't the last Russian crew (the one that took Tito up) film some commercials on the ISS? How is this different?
Also a question for you Internet millionares: why not give some of it back in the form of investing in space?