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Private Spaceflight Law Passes Senate
Neil Halelamien writes "HR 5382, the commercial spaceflight bill which has been previously mentioned on Slashdot, has been passed by Congress at the last minute (almost literally). The bill had previously been stalled several times due to disagreements about how much the FAA should regulate crew and passenger safety. It's now headed to the White House to be signed into law. Under this legislation, the FAA's role until 2012 will be to protect the uninvolved public on the ground, and allow passengers to ride as long as they've been properly informed of the related dangers. Also, the FAA will be able to regulate certain aspects of the vehicles if they prove to be dangerous."
lol.... no matter how many times u say something about korean old people it never stops being funny....
"if only i had known i would have been a locksmith." -albert einstein
We might have a Patriot act still, but all the Senators that mangaged to pass that giant piece of legislation (read: crap) would it no longer be with us.
At last! Congress making real sacrifices for their country - of course, all laws would be crappy, literally.
What's scarier, the fact you just imagined your Senawhore, bent over, squinting and straining, or the fact that it actually sounds like a good idea...?
er.... In Japan...or Korea the flavour of the day? Actually, I thought India was the flavour of the day...
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Those papercuts burn, man! I don't recommend it!
Be relentless!
No, he just played them up, especially with the submarine-style battle in the nebula.
The naval terminology and culture was always there.
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
watch a small scale nuclear war on the moon
A nuclear war on the moon would be quite boring. The moon has no atmosphere, and thus, a "lunar nuclear war" would be little more than a bunch of (very) bright flashes, unless the nukes can somehow be implanted below the surface of the enemy. You could detonate a 50 megaton nuke 5 feet off the surface of the moon and you might succeed in stirring up a small amount of lunar dust. There would definitely be no crater though. Just a bright flash, and a metric buttload of gamma rays and neutrinos.
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