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Saturn V Fallen on Hard Times

Posted by michael on from the up-up-and-away dept.

n9fzx writes "The best remaining artifact of the Apollo Program, Huntsville's Saturn V, is 'pocked with pits and cracks, and patches of mold and mildew', having survived for forty years outdoors. Alabama's U.S. Space and Rocket Center is trying to raise a measly $5 million in order to preserve the beast, with $1.5 million in the kitty so far. Paypal, anyone?"

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  1. Sell it as geek housing by leonbrooks · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Can we fix it?" (-:

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  2. Why not just cover it.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... with a giant condom!

    *ducks*

    1. Re:Why not just cover it.... by Orion442 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Because Madonna and Britney Spears would kill themselves trying to "mount" it.

  3. Looks like a nice fixer-upper. by Sir+Pallas · · Score: 3, Funny

    And with rent at the University getting steeper, it's probably in better condition than where I live. Not to mention, cheaper. When can I move in?

  4. For $5 million bucks... by Op7imus_Prim3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hell, I could build my own themepark on the moon! With hookers, and blackjack! Forget the blackjack.

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  5. Needs a Large Roll_Down Rubber Protector by Linus+Sixpack · · Score: 3, Funny

    Protection and preservation are important. I think it needs a large roll down rubber covvering -- perhaps with an Spacemen reservoir in the tip!

    ls

  6. Obligatory Bob the builder quote... by rendermaniac · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Yes we can!"

  7. Send it back to Hollywood by tymbow · · Score: 2, Funny

    That way it can go into a movie museum with all the other movie props! (Kidding... no I don't think they were faked)

  8. Re:Feed The Hungry by jonnosan · · Score: 2, Funny


    Since I'm not a self rightous middle class twat with delusions of saving the poor down-trodden masses, I'd say the 7,000 refugees/famine victims aren't being used for anything useful either so they can 'depart' as well.

    We can keep the 'feed the world' t-shirts, USA for Africa videos, etc, and generations of the 'future' can reconstruct your tedious "I'm such a virtous wanker" pomposity through virtual reality whenever they feel the need.

    That's merely my opinion, though.

  9. Re:Use the money elsewhere?!? by bsartist · · Score: 4, Funny

    geeks/engeneers really will find a way to disagree with anything just for the sake of argument.

    No we dont. ;-)

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  10. Obvious solution... by pieterh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cut the damn thing into hand-sized pieces, seal in plastic bags, sell them for $25 a piece and use the proceeds to send Carly to Mars on a one-way mission to sign outsourcing contracts with the Martians.

    Damn, my living room museum needs a brick from the Berlin Wall, a chunk of the Biggest Rocket Ever Built, and a single hard-copy SCO share to go along with my original mint-condition 20-diskette pack of IBM's OS/2 (which never flew, either).

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  11. Auction it off by xtermin8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ebay anyone?