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Apollo 11 Launch Tower Rescue Effort
SaveTheLUT writes "Florida Today has this story about the disposal of the last remaining Apollo Launch Tower - the one which launched Apollo 11 to the Moon in July 1969. The campaign to save the tower has also appeared on InsideKSC, CollectSpace, Space.com and there is to be a TV article about it on Central Florida News 13 channel on Monday morning. The Space Restoration Society has created an on-line Petition which has already managed to gather more than 2000 signatures to save this piece of America's history since NASA announced the disposal of the tower early last week."
Great, just what America needs, another huge-assed phallus.
I think that all of Man's great erections should be cherished.
Ahhh.. But what is then to stop the Chinese from buying all the bits and reassembling them to launch their own craft...
I've never shoed a horse, but I once told a donkey to piss off!
RTFA. It's an evironmental issue, not a space issue (no pun intended . . . well, okay, maybe a little bit).
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
The smell?
Yeah, that's all we need is auctioning off rusty, dangerous bits of metal to John Q. Public, so they can cut their thumb on it and have it get horribly infected, then try to sue the pants off NASA. =P~
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Sell it to Disneyworld. They can attach a ride to it or something like the spaceship "ride" they used to have at Disneyland...
Except they'd have to come up with a ride that's actually better idea than Rocket to the Moon or the slightly revamped Mission to Mars. Otherwise, they'll be getting rid of it pretty quick for lack of interest...
because we are "nerds" we need to sign the petition?
give me a break. scrap the thing and use it to build a new/better one. Else if you want it, have NASA tow it to your back yard and you can use it as a diving board.
That's good...That's why my datacenter is made up of abaccuses. Not a single blue screen. And considering how stupid our users are, it doesn't make much of a difference. They don't understand the "underlying math" It's fun when you implement a brand new buzz word compatible service, and everyone is happy to have it, but none has the slightest clue what it's for, much less how to use it.
You really need very little technology to get by. Pentium 4 3GHz and 512 MB of RAM to play freecell??? Come on...
please excuse my apathy
"This toilet was personally used by Buzz Aldren while he was undergoing a urine test during the space program."
Sheesh.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
I'm more concerned with saving the props and the soundstage!
I'd like to see you abacus-powered datacenter get /.-ed!
... my fingers are bleeding!"
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Tuus crepidae innexilis sunt.
You know, I find it interesting that even with the Slashdot linkage and the outpouring of support for the Apollo 11 launch pad (~2,800 sigs), there are almost as many people signing a petition to take Ted Nugent off the air (~2,100 sigs).
See, Americans know whats important.
(Murmurs of approval from the tour group. Flashbulbs go off. A handsome, outdoorsy middle-aged man hugs his attractive, 30-something wife. She beams with pride. Tour bus disappears into a tunnel. Soft focus pan back to launch tower, with the super "ALL SYSTEMS GO" to fade.)
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Don't get rid of that launch tower! Some day, all our fancy high tech gizmos with the flashing lights and buttons made out of Styrofoam will mysteriously fail (while all the scientists smack their foreheads wondering how they could have missed such a glaring flaw in their plan). Then, all hope will be lost for our ruggedly handsome astronauts and the one superstar cute girl who just happened to stow-a-way. Until, that is, the quirky hero who forgets to shave regularly and whom everyone discounts because he never fully recovered his sense of self worth after **the accident** will come up with a daring plan to use decades old technology and will blast a new rocket whipped together with spare parts found in broom closets into outer space from that tower, saving the day and restoring everyone's faith in him.. (Also getting him the envied thirty second make out session from the sexy stow-a-way when she lands.)
All I wanted was a rock to wind a piece of string around, and I ended up with the biggest ball of twine in Minnesota