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mwallis writes "Space.com has an article on the recent Space Access conference in Scottsdale a few weeks ago. The article talks about the (slowly) emerging commercial space transportation industry with interviews and quotes from Space Access Society's Henry Vanderbilt, XCOR's Aleta Jackson, Armadillo's John Carmack and many others."
space transports you!
He gets bonus points if he makes his space outfit one like the space marine from doom.
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
Here we are, the top 10 ways that Star Trek would change if Slashdot replaced Starfleet. 10. "Mod me up Scotty" 9. New Starship designated: NX-31337 8. The Enterprise would mistakenly re-explore the same planets every few months 7. Parts of the crew would demand to rename the ship to GNU/Enterprise 6. Every time Kirk says anything, fifty people burst onto the bridge and repeat it 5. Open Source Shields not such a good idea 4. Captain's log full of bad grammar, typos, and poor spelling 3. Battle plans now consist of highest-moderated comments by crew 2. Q would be renamed to "root" 1. Borg would cite things as being "offtopic" rather than "irrelevant"
Fly me to the moon... Let me pay to see the stars
Just as irrigation is the lifeblood of the Southwest, lifeblood is the soup of cannibals. -- Jack Handy
Imagine this: NY USA to Sidney Australia via Shuttle. AKA Yesterday Delivery.
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
You'd be shocked at the crap that tourists pay big dollars to go see. Moldy old cathedrals, collections of teddy bears and thumbtacks from the 1910s, chamber pots from dead towns, buddha statues, cable cars, mountains you can't climb but only see, sea beasts swimming around...there's no limit to the idiocy that people will spend money on. Heck, NASA in Houston is a major tourist attraction in its own right, and the thing is 100% ground-based.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Tonight on Scrapheap Challenge: Two teams build and launch manned suborbital capsules - from what they can find on the scrapheap!
Everything in the world is controlled by a small, evil group to which, unfortunately, no one you know belongs.
Well, I was going to say, 'great view' or 'getting my astronaut wings' or 'exclusivity' or 'bragging rights' but how about:
zero-g sex?
:-)
-WolfWithoutAClause
"Gravity is only a theory, not a fact!"That's all well and good, but can they schedule the Conference in 2020 to be in Luna City?
Of course, Caramck's version will involve a device whereby you point the launcher at the ground and fire to propel yourself into upper orbit. It'll never quite work the way you'd think. Fair play for trying, though.
Us here, the 10 ways in which the principal star voyage would change if Slashdot replaced Starfleet.
10. "MOD that I to the top of Scotty"
9. new Starship indicated: Nx-31337
8. the company Re-would explore in an erroneous way same planets all the few months when
7. shares of the crew would require retitrer the boat with GNU/Enterprise
6. each time Kirk indicates anything, glare of fifty people on the bridge and
5. open shields of source repeat it the notation not of a so good captain of idea
4. completion of the bad grammar, typos, and the weak plans of battle of epellation
3. are composed now of the comments high-moderate by crew
2. Q would be retitrés "for enraciner"
1. Borg would quote things as being "offtopic" rather than "nonrelevant"
Well, while mid-class people buy guns or special plastic bags (poor people use bridges and other free-of-charge methods), top class people look for something that can satisfy their ambitions at last seconds or minutes. But how about days or weeks or even months?
Eject such guys to the orbit or to the moon, where they can enjoy their last days-weeks-months before they are running of money and air. Or they fail down to burn in the athmosphere. Or just fail down and crash to the moon. I thing many multi rich people would like to enjoy such an end. People, who are still alive, will enjoy they payment. So, everybody would be happy.
Less is more !