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Lance Bass to Continue to Plague Earth's Surface
thepooleboy writes "Looks like N'Sync member Lance Bass is NOT going to be shot into space! Yahoo News reports that Rosaviakosmos has not begun talks with Bass or MirCorp. "[Bass' flight] is just an advertising stunt, I can promise you," Spokesman Sergei Gorbunov said. "This is better advertising than he could ever pay for." Good! I'm glad that no cheezy teen pop videos will be staged on the ISS. At least not in the near future..."
...only without the rocket.
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
I was starting to have flashbacks to that movie on the Disney channel "Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century" or something.
The title of this thread seriously made me laugh out loud. I think I'll suggest a poll of the funniest thread titles to ever hit /.
I'm pretty sure that "Lance Bass to Continue to Plague Earth's Surface" would even outrank the CowboyNeal option!
I hadn't heard of this at all until I just read it here.
My Webcomic: Asylum on 5th Street
"This is better advertising than he could ever pay for"
Well yeah... He even got it onto slashdot, as well as my local news, and yahoo.com. I think that is some good marketing, as compared to a commercial.
"Good! I'm glad that no cheezy teen pop videos will be staged on the ISS. At least not in the near future..."
What concerns me more is that I was happy not knowing about this and for some reason slashdot has decided this was "news for nerds. stuff that matters.". Anything that concerns a boy band member is _not_ something that matters.
Although there is the question of who should we send to stay, and who gets to come back. Sending certain overly rich folks such as Bill Gates or Michael Jackson to space to stay only invites comparison to certain old Justin Powers tv episodes (from the series that never existed, yet)
Any nominations for people to send to space and leave there? People to send to space and return for the benefit of mankind?
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
I said this before when N'Sync was going to be in episode II.
Who among us wouldn't do the exact same thing if we had the resources?
"when life gets complicated, I like to take a nap in a tree and wait for dinner" - Hobbes.
You need to brush up on your searching skills.
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...he's going to go. He's got the money.
The fact that he hasn't started negotiating with the Russians yet doesn't mean much - he's just contacted the people that are supposed to negotiate with the Russians for him. It'll happen.
I think I'd be perfect. I'm in my mid-twenties, but I can easily pass for 16.
I can't sing; I can't dance. I definately can't write songs or play any instruments. Hell, I can barely dress myself.
Where do I sign up?
If wealthy folks want to shell out big $$ to shoot themselves up into space, better for us -- they are voluntarily subsidizing manned space flight, and by extension space research, for the benefit of mankind. This is one step towards commercializing (and thereby individualizing) space development.
Yes yes, we all know that Lance Bass is a rich popstar twit and we loathe to think that he can get a ride on the space station and we can't. Boo-freakin'-hoo.
Last time I checked, just about everybody here was 100% for space-tourism. Shooting Lance's jiggy ass up there is going to promote that just as much as it is his crappy band. Just be thankful that he wasn't going to be the first. Personally, I'd love to see as many tourists up there as we can get with an orbiting Hilton to house them all.
Oh yeah, and I liked the Daily Show's headline graphic for this story: 'N Space
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Come on, I am sure that quite a few /. folks wouldn't do the same thing if they had the funds in a heartbeat, at least those of us that could squeeze into a space suit (myself excluded).
Of course, I am not quite sure where all the animosity comes from. I will be the first to cry out against N'Sync and all that Jedi mumbo jumbo that Lucas tried to pull. Bass himself seems to be pretty smart and articulate, though (from what I saw when he was on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire way back when it was fun to watch at a bar with friends with lots of beer). Of course, anyone talking with Regis Philbin would probably seem pretty smart in comparison. Now that I think about it, not the best way to judge someone.
Bryan R.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance, or $12.50 as seen on eBay.....
Out of Sync with the mission goals.
How about we send all the boy bands, Britney, and their like on a one way trip to Mars.
i misread your post -- the $$ signs made me think of spam and it wouldn't surprise me if this was the next iteration of spam:
GET INTO SPACE NOW! FIND OUT HOW! AND EMAIL SPAM@SPAM.TLD! this is not unsolicited mail, free ink refils and pictures of teen girls included in every order!
FreeBSD for the impatient.
That was my dream. Now I have to find another dream.
Stop the brainwash
You know you're a geek when you think Lance Bass is a kind of long fish.
that's because their name is 'Nsync, not N'Sync
Remember, there were no nuclear weapons before women were allowed to vote.
Mod me down as redudant if you like, but props to chrisd for that one.
"[Bass' flight] is just an advertising stunt, I can promise you," Spokesman Sergei Gorbunov said. "This is better advertising than he could ever pay for."
Where did that quote come from? I didn't see that anywhere in the Yahoo news article. And according to the article I read about this the other day, nothing was ever said about it begin a done deal.
If you're ever privaledged enough to be able to even SAY you want to TRY go to space on a partcular space flight, why should any of us put you down for it? It's only a step forward towards average Joe being able to take space flights, not a step backward.
(Lance Bass): Excuse me, Mister Astronaut, but after all this Tang(tm), I gotta whizz something awful. Where's the john up here ???
(Astronaut): Certainly.... go through that round hatch, close it, and spin the wheel. When the light turns red, press the big red button on the wall, and the door will open to the waste disposal area. . .
(a minute goes by)
(outside view) Lance Bass's corpse floating in vacuum
And people think spending money on the ISS is a waste (evil grin)
Come on people, think this one through!
We are already under a strict "No Contact" ban in the Galactic Confederation - we go shooting NSync members into space and we will downgraded from "Not ready for contact" to "Dangerous - destroy immediately".
www.eFax.com are spammers
...and nuke 'em from orbit! It's the only way to be sure!
You're using her as bait, Master!
What if Lance Bass, or the other BoyBandites read Slashdot?
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
I've just finished skimming through this thread, and while I understand why a member of N'Sync is the subject of widespread ridicule, I do want to pause for a moment and say why I think it might be a good idea for Mr. Bass, or anyone well known, to visit the ISS (as long as, of course, they pass the flight certification requirements and have been trained in Houston and in Star City, as all professional astronauts and cosmonauts do, to the extent that their individual mission requires.)
The ISS program has been subject to some very severe criticism on the part of the US government due to cost overruns and repeated delays. The station was originally designed to have a seven-member crew and perform hundreds if not thousands of science experiments over its design life. Due to the loss of the US Habitation Module and the Crew Return Vehicle (not to be confused with the Honda CR-V), that crew has been cut to just three - and it takes two and a half people to just operate the station, leaving only a comparatively tiny amount of time free for science. The station may find its budget cut yet further if NASA can't rein in the cost increases, though the new Administrator is quite experienced at budgeting (which is, actually, why he was chosen).
One way to help the station pay its way is these "pay your way" visits. They are not disrupting the station's already-existing schedule, as the "ferry" flights that are used for these paid tours are already built into the program. Their purpose? To exchange the long-term crew's Soyuz "lifeboat" for another every six months, the Soyuz' certified on-orbit lifetime. Typically, the taxi crews stay on the station for about a week, then depart in the Soyuz already attached to the station, leaving the new one behind.
If you considering the importance of the ISS in long-term space exploration as a way to gain experience in long-duration missions (as Mir allowed us to do) and as a departure point for future missions to the Moon and Mars, you see why these tourist missions are important: help balance the shortfall in what NASA and other governments can't provide and help boost public interest in, and awareness of, the ISS program.
"This is better advertising than he could ever pay for."
Better advertising for the ISS. The more famous the proposed visitor, the more likely the news will be everywhere, regardless of whether or not he or she ever visits the station. And, if those press articles also explain in an unbiased way why the ISS is vital to us and to future generations, then perhaps its future will be assured as more than just a footnote or stumbling point on the way off of Earth.
That's the real reason this is an important piece of news.
i am a soviet space shuttle
I didn't know N'Sync had names!
Maybe they named them so they could sell dolls and 7 tshirts instead of just one? (Or was that Meneudo that had seven?)
Am I the only one who is saddened at the thought of the ISS project losing the money that they would have gotten from Lance's tourism? I mean, if he's fit, passes the requirements, and he's got the money, I say, PLEASE give it to the ISS!
/. hive wishing the ISS project would get more money.
/. hive is happy that the ISS project is not getting that money from an excited young man just because he happens to sell alot of albums to 12 year old girls.
/. these days, it seems.
I mean, sure, I don't listen to the group and never will...But I'm all for expanding into space. The problem is that the ISS is running low on funds...It would be A Good Thing for space tourism to help further the project.
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SITTING IN OUTER SPACE AND RAN OUT OF TONER??!?!?