| === chris____ is now known as twopoint718 | ||
| Cheesehead | Woe is me. I must take my car for emissions testing in a few minutes | 15:39 |
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| h00k | I just watched the space shuttle launch | 15:39 |
| h00k | mind = blown | 15:39 |
| h00k | Everytime | 15:39 |
| Cheesehead | I watched the first five or six, then just happened to watch #25 (oops) | 15:40 |
| Cheesehead | Talk about good (bad?) timing. | 15:40 |
| mikeputnam | the scale of the propulsion is hard to fathom | 15:41 |
| mikeputnam | and not kill anybody | 15:41 |
| h00k | like...4 miles per second | 15:41 |
| Cheesehead | 4 mps? Should be more than that... | 15:41 |
| Cheesehead | I want a Space Elevator...but I don't want to pay for it | 15:42 |
| Cheesehead | Aw, who am I kidding? I'd help pay for it. | 15:50 |
| mikeputnam | Perhaps the fiscal onus of space exploration could be tamed by working together globally? #allonthesameteam | 15:50 |
| Cheesehead | It already is | 15:51 |
| mikeputnam | so globally Nasa can't apy the bills? | 15:52 |
| mikeputnam | *pay | 15:52 |
| Cheesehead | ISS is supported mostly by Russian support vehicles and tankers | 15:53 |
| mikeputnam | US & Russia <> globally | 15:55 |
| mikeputnam | or if you prefer != | 15:55 |
| Cheesehead | I don't see Zimbabwe or Peru or Switzerland making meaningful contributions. What line must we cross to call it global? | 15:57 |
| Cheesehead | China and India have -at best- rudimentary capabilities | 15:58 |
| mikeputnam | i guess that's my question. why not contributions from everybody? | 15:58 |
| Cheesehead | Europe decided to be a niche player long ago | 15:58 |
| mikeputnam | money or tech | 15:58 |
| Cheesehead | Kind of the same boat Ubuntu is in - everybody benefits, but only a few contribute | 15:59 |
| * Cheesehead is smug about working Ubuntu into the conversation | 16:00 | |
| mikeputnam | well the non-existant global space exploration program needs a paypal button | 16:01 |
| mikeputnam | or at least a "Get Involved" link | 16:02 |
| mikeputnam | street team! | 16:02 |
| mikeputnam | sell ad space on the side of the shuttles | 16:03 |
| mikeputnam | deface the surface of the moon with McDonalds Golden Arches in exchange for 2 years funding | 16:03 |
| Cheesehead | Well, the money gets spent on Earth, so I don't see Zimbabwe's interest in sending money to technicians in Florida or Kazakhstan | 16:04 |
| Cheesehead | And the worlds just doesn't need 100 satellite factories plus 100 rocket fuel factories scattered everywhere | 16:04 |
| mikeputnam | "Zimbabwe" is a pretty general grouping of a lot of people. | 16:05 |
| Cheesehead | Okay, Peru, too. | 16:05 |
| Cheesehead | (Unless Peru provides an equatorial railgun launcher in the Andes...THAT would be cool) | 16:05 |
| mikeputnam | heh | 16:06 |
| Cheesehead | (and lower the cost to orbit) | 16:06 |
| Cheesehead | Hooray! My first e-mail to the Ubuntu Technical Board was accepted. Now to see what they say... | 20:19 |
| * Cheesehead wonders why he typed all that twice | 20:20 | |
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