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Spaceport America Takes Off
SeaDour writes "Spaceport America, being built north of Las Cruces, New Mexico, is finally becoming a reality and is set to become the world's first commercial spaceport. Governor Bill Richardson recently secured 33 million dollars from the state legislature for the final design, and a proposed 0.25% sales tax increase in Dona Ana County, where the facility is to be constructed, is expected to bring an additional 6.5 million dollars per year (if approved by voters next week). Richard Branson, the head of upstart Virgin Galactic, on Monday agreed to lease the facility for 27.5 million dollars over twenty years. If all continues to go as planned, SpaceShipTwo will make its first suborbital joy ride in two to three years."
... the Linux port of America will take off. :-(
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Life of Brian is a great movie. http://www.mwscomp.com/movies/brian/brian-09.htm
Shouldn't we finish colonizing Iraq before we spend money on colonizing space? Then we can fund our spaceport by passing a "Stamp Act", so that all legal documents in Iraq have to have a paid US government stamp. We can pass a bunch of "Townshend Acts" to tax all imports into Iraq of basic materials that Iraqis need to survive. The Iraqis will probably be against these taxes, so we'll have to make sure to tax them without representation.