Congress Plans Space Tourism Regulation

ackthpt writes "No new venture seems to escape some regulation, as is the case with the budding space tourism industry. As I piloted my personal groundcraft through pea-soup fog this morning (observing about half the others driving with lights off) CNN News mentioned impending regulation and legislation is on the way to govern commercial space transportation. Among concerns are safety of uninvolved public (to ensure boosters or other launch vehicle parts don't land on the unsuspecting public), assessing risk to passengers and level of fitness necessary to withstand the forces and conditions of spaceflight. Addressing such concerns are the FAA's office of commercial space transportation and the Commerce Department's Office of Space Commercialization and of course the US Congress."

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Re:Awesome

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Seems to me a simple distillery would be the best, with a solar concentrator to raise the water above boiling point. Why bother with the intermediate stage of electricity when a flask at the focal point of a concave mirror with a collection device on top of it would do just as well?

Alternatively- I seem to remember that Israel uses a system like this to get fresh water from the Dead Sea- theirs were long channels of shallow water drawn from the ocean, with a mirrored surface underneath and a half-cylinder on top to capture and recondense the steap, with half pipes down each side to collect the water.

BTW- I thought God only spoke to George W. Bush....