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Esther Dyson To Train For Space Flight
DynaSoar writes "Esther Dyson, known to many as a founding and consistently guiding member of ICANN, and for working with the startups of Flickr, del.icio.us, Medscape and others, is now expanding her interests upwards. She recently announced that she will be heading to Moscow to train as backup astronaut for Charles Simonyi, who plans to fly aboard Soyuz TMA-14 next year. The US$3 million price tag won't be her first cash contribution towards personal space flight. She's already an investor in Space Adventures, the company that arranges the space tourist flights on Soyuz."
Just thought I'd add fuel to the fire. Let's nitpick every singly grammatical inaccuracy contained in the article summary. Here is my contribution.
"US$3 million price tag won't her first cash contribution"
should be
"US$3 million price tag won't BE her first cash contribution"
singly -> single
I'd claim a fat-finger error, but I'd need fingers the size of the Hulk's to make that mistake.
Nah, it's a typo domain, she's a famous squatter!
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
Two girls, one capsule!
Any dot com superstar executives reinvest their winnings in their own product or do they all want to be astronauts instead?
In space, her urine would form Dyson Spheres.
I remember seeing her at a conference. (I don't remember which one.) She was going on about how the domain name system was innovative because it provided a flat address space for everyone on the planet. I'm not sure why phones, postal addresses or even email didn't make a better fit, but I suppose she doesn't run those.
She talked about all the delightful services that whatever she was hawking would provide. When she took Q&A, I asked if it wasn't indicative of something that people had gone to great lengths to avoid all this "value" she wanted to add to the network, and that the true value of the internet was at its endpoints. Damn it, now I wish I remembered it better. Still, I can feel my hackles rise whenever she's mentioned. It makes me think of "The Guy I Almost Was" and Mondo 2K and all that other hucksterism.
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
...raised on a high-calorie diet in microgravity would expand uniformly about the bird's center of gravity.
So a large Arkansas-based poultry producer is looking into producing...
TYSON'S SPHERES!!!
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.