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Sergey: In Soviet Russia, Rocket Detonates You!
theodp writes "'We were all foolish enough to go on this adventure,' Google co-founder Sergey Brin told the assembled Brainiacs at Google's Solve for X event last week, recalling the time he and Google co-founder Larry Page took their Gulfstream on a $100K journey to watch a 2008 Soyuz launch in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. 'If the rocket blows up, we're all dead,' Sergey overheard a Russian guard say. 'It was incredibly close,' Sergey continued. 'We drove in toward this rocket and there were hundreds of people all going the other way. It was really an astonishing sight. If you ever have the opportunity, I highly recommend it. It's really not at all comparable to the American launches that I've seen...because those are like five miles away behind a mountain, and the Russians are not as concerned with safety.' Sergey received film credit for the recently-opened Man on a Mission, a documentary on the Russian Soyuz mission that wound up putting Ultima creator Richard Garriott into orbit (for $30 million) instead of changing the course of Google history."
In 1912, the idea that more people would transport the globe in flying machines than in railroad trains and cruise ships would be laughed at and dismissed with the same words you just wrote.
Show some imagination and faith in mankind's scientific progress or shut the fuck up.
I have no problem with intelligent criticism. I have every problem with cheap easy pessimism. You are a dim useless bulb.
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
1902 then
happy now asshole?
and i am shooting the messenger. as the message is pathetic
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it