Should the US not retire the shuttles?

[Lancer]

What, you can't build a Mars ship next to it and camp out in the comforts of the space station?

[Kuciwalker]

Not really.

[FrostyBoy]

Originally posted by Verto


Except they would have a cheap knock-off name.

And the laser beams won't go Dew! Dew! Dew!, they will go Ching! Ching! Ching!

[FrostyBoy]

What happened to the Mass Driver idea? I liked that idea.

That reminds me, last I read, NASA was taking the Space Elevator quite seriously.

[Lancer]

Yup, so far they've spent 500 mil picking the space elevator music.

[FrostyBoy]

wellll.. I guess that makes some sense.. it's a long way up. If you had ****ty music, you'd go nuts and jump out


I suggest Carl Sagan, narrating the journey upwards and downwards.

[Lancer]

My guess is they'll end up with a 96 hour extended muzac version of 'The Girl from Ipanema', but its just a guess.

[Thoth]

Originally posted by Lancer
Yup, so far they've spent 500 mil picking the space elevator music.

A $500 million muzac version of "Stairway to Heaven"?

[Lancer]

That's it! Damn, now they'll have to restudy the whole thing.

Thoth