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Private Spacecraft Prospects

Posted by michael on from the book-a-ticket-now dept.

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."

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  1. Re:For Your Viewing Pleasure: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And now with proper formatting!

    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"