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Title: USA to begin jettisoning garbage into space
Post by: Raubvogel on February 21, 2002, 09:57:53 AM: http://www.msnbc.com/news/711618.asp?cp1=1
Title: USA to begin jettisoning garbage into space
Post by: Sandman on February 21, 2002, 09:59:27 AM: LOL!
Title: USA to begin jettisoning garbage into space
Post by: Ripsnort on February 21, 2002, 10:22:21 AM: :D

Had me going there for a moment, then I reflected, yep, garbage in, garbage out.
Title: USA to begin jettisoning garbage into space
Post by: Mathman on February 21, 2002, 10:25:48 AM: If only life were this simple...
Title: USA to begin jettisoning garbage into space
Post by: Charon on February 21, 2002, 10:27:49 AM: I hate him, god I hate him. A turd like that going into space before ME! He'll probably just be the Russian's space squeak though :)

[edit: on a side note, I met the cosmonaut mentioned in the article, Gherman Titov, at a function once. I had a nice conversation with him through the translator. He recently passed away, but was a hell of a nice guy -- really down to earth and funny. He was joking something about going back up into space to test the Libido in zero G :)]

Charon
Title: USA to begin jettisoning garbage into space
Post by: Tac on February 21, 2002, 11:12:52 AM: FARG IT.

The people didnt want them making an appearance in a movie for feks sake.

That guy's presence would be an insult to the space program IMO.
Title: USA to begin jettisoning garbage into space
Post by: Nifty on February 21, 2002, 11:41:54 AM: simple? ;) it's $20 million to hitch a ride with the Russians!

hehe, look fellas, we could get lucky here. If he's gotta train 6 months like they said, maybe that's six months without a new nsynch song! If that's the case, the little buttmunch gets my vote for the program!

By the way, I was for their appearance in Ep II, as long as they got brutally killed along with Jar Jar! :D
Title: USA to begin jettisoning garbage into space
Post by: Octavius on February 21, 2002, 02:19:34 PM: Can't they have some sort of 'accident' somewhere? ie leave the damn window open in his sleeping quarters!! :D
Title: USA to begin jettisoning garbage into space
Post by: Animal on February 21, 2002, 02:40:43 PM: Quote
The discussions are aimed at creating a celebrity reality-TV show that would follow Bass through his training for a space flight, climaxing with the actual mission.

Oh boy! Road Rules in SPACE!!!
They are actually gonna make more money out of this than hes going to spend, so the bastard is actually getting a FREE ride to SPACE!!!

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:
Title: USA to begin jettisoning garbage into space
Post by: Ripsnort on February 21, 2002, 03:18:23 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Animal

Oh boy! Road Rules in SPACE!!!
They are actually gonna make more money out of this than hes going to spend, so the bastard is actually getting a FREE ride to SPACE!!!

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

Positive exposure of NASA to the masses means $$ to the space program. To me and many others, this may actually backfire in their face, so to speak.
Title: USA to begin jettisoning garbage into space
Post by: Animal on February 22, 2002, 06:47:55 PM: Quote
Originally posted by Ripsnort

Positive exposure of NASA to the masses means $$ to the space program. To me and many others, this may actually backfire in their face, so to speak.

Actually seems like NASA is not involved in this; the are dealing with the same Russian team that Dennis Tito payed $20mil to get a ride with.
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Post by: CyranoAH on February 23, 2002, 02:19:51 AM: Who did not see this one coming?

I mean, James "Titanic" Cameron has already expressed his intention of going up there.

I'm for the commercialization of space travel, but this is not the way... it's like selling hotel nights at the CERN or some other top scientific installation.

Dennis Tito, that's another case... the man was a skilled engineer who had worked for a long time in the sector before he made big bucks... I say he earned his passage to space. (BTW the guy is a perfect double of "Mr. Hayden" from Carl Sagan's "Contact").

But a media creation like the N'Sync boy? Well, hope he pukes a lot (that definitely happens) and we get plenty of pictures of that. His career sinks to the bottom (it probably would anyway) and we get a good laugh. :D

The commercialization of the space station was discussed last summer at the International Space University Summer Session, and some pretty good ideas came up, I hope space becomes affordable... well, before I die. :)
(after being in zero-g training, I can tell you I'm hooked!!!) ;)

Daniel, aka Cyrano