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Next Generation Space Shuttles
zymano writes "Popular Science has an article about the next generation space shuttles. If you're wondering about what happened to all those cool ideas for a new shuttle and what happened to them then this story will explain it. Mentions the politics, design, costs and time for a new shuttle." There's some neat images of mockups as well.
Ok so Monday night I'm in a bar.
Some fuckin weirdo is talking to me. He is trying to recruit me as a programmer. He wants me to guide his spaceship to mars. He wants to beat NASA to mars. He doesn't want to work with NASA because of his ego. God has told him how to get to mars. He doesn't hold a degree and dropped out of school in tenth grade, but that's just because he has four sons. He has mathematical proof that God exists. God directly told him how to get to mars. He has the plans all in his head. He is an engineer. He says Microsoft is open source. He says I am a communist. Someday he is going to find his programmer.
He rambled something about a zero diameter circle. As my boss said, "isn't that just a fucking dot?"
I got up and said "we were just leaving" when Dana says "we didn't pay our tab yet." Dammit. Awkward.
THIS is their space anti-piracy task force.
Couldn't they just climb the cable to the cable TV?
That would be one way of financing the space program: set things up so that the only way the RIAA could stop P2P file sharing is by sending manned spacecraft or very intelligent probes to Mars.
So, what about it? Let's put a solar-powered P2P node on Mars with 100G worth of MP3s and some simple defensive capabilities. Then, let's see how long it will take th RIAA to launch a 20 man crew to Mars to track down and kill the thing.