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Alaskan Space Port Prepares for First Launch

Posted by michael on from the space-port-has-a-nice-ring-to-it dept.

dlkf writes: "The Kodiak Launch Complex on the Alaskan coast, run by the Alaska Aerospace Development Corporation is scheduled, weather permitting, to send an Athena-1 booster with 4 NASA and Air Force science experiments into orbit tonight. If successful, Alaska will become just the fourth state (California, Florida and Virginia are the others) to send rockets into earth orbit. For more info, read this."

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  1. Woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Running RedHat 7.1, KDE 2.1 and Acqua theme and loving it!

    Linux IS ready for the desktop!

    1. Re:Woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      What do you mean?

      It's stable as hell, has anti-aliased fonts, plays DVDs and with a proper theme the desktop looks better than any Windows today!

    2. Re:Woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      What the hell is matter with you? Why are you bashing free software?

      You'd rather pay for your software?

    3. Re:Woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You get what you pay for. If you think you're living the high life using Linux and eating government cheese and your wardrobe comes from the local GoodWill, don't let me stop you.

    4. Re:Woohoo! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      You're kind of people with no community spirit are really sad.

      As if spending money would guarantee you a high quality product.

  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

    1. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Nope

  3. there's a live webcam at yahoo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You can view the launchsite without any plugins.
    Pictures update only every 1 minute though so I dunno if that's going to be useful during the countdown.

  4. Linux is very cool. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Linux is so very awesome. I just read about how Dreamworks and all the big Hollywood animation departments have been switching to Linux in a landslide. Linux now runs all major Hollywood animation departments, desktop, server, and render farm. Check out this cool article: Linux Has Conquered Hollywood.

  5. CowboyNeal? Does it really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    make ny difference where you wigh him?

    1. Re:CowboyNeal? Does it really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I got dizzy last time I stood up.

  6. Didn't we start this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In 1125 with the First Crusade? They are beaten. Do you want them to become part of the US and eat Mcdonalds? Iraq the 52nd state and Afghanistan a territory that hasn't decided yet.

  7. Muslimism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The plain truth is that the world would be a better and more peaceful place without them. The simple fact is that Islam is not a peaceful religion; it is based on the concept of conquering all non-Moslems. Islam is intrinsically hostile to all non-Moslem religions. Islam has been unable to coexist peacfully with any other group: Hindu, Christian, Jew, Buddhist, Sikh, Bahai. All are severly persecuted under Islamic rule, be it the Taliban or Saudi Arabia.

    1. Re:Muslimism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      The Hindus are a pretty violent group too, and the Buddhists oppress women by using the political influence of their religion to let Buddhist monks commit sex crimes without consequence.

    2. Re:Muslimism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Well, the Hindus aren't out to force all the world to become Hindus, however they aren't too happy about folks coming into their country trying to convert Hindus to other faiths.

      As far a Buddhists, their foibles can not be compared to the horrors of Muslimism. Not even remotely in the same league.