[BNM] [OT]No doubt this will stir some people up...

[Alex Studd]

Incidentally

when did the lonely little ticket office on the west pier get wiped out? 
I was walking past at the weekend and noticed it wasn't there any more, 
rather brought a tear to my eye, i liked that plucky little booth 
hanging on after all its bigger mates had gone but now it is no more


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Alex Studd
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Dave Phelan wrote:
> On 3/31/06, Jay Gooby <jay at gooby.org> wrote:
>> On 3/31/06, Dave Phelan <dave.phelan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 1) You're going to have to stick your space elevator on the equator,
>>> so that the centre of gravity is at a geosynchronous orbit, otherwise
>>> it's going to wrap itself round the planet, if you could ever get it
>>> up [1]
>> I resent your comments on my procreating abilities, sir! ;)
>>
>> Why should people on the equator have all the fun? Just attach a
>> rocket to the rock and give it a nudge whenever it looks like its
>> going off-keel.
> 
> Okay, you capture Apophis and get it to hang in a stable orbit over
> Brighton, and I'll polish your Nobel prize for physics until the day I
> die. Deal?
> 
>>> 2) I am opposed to the spacceport proposal for Hove Lagoon. Always
>>> have done, always will be. Kourou [2] is much better suited for a
>>> spaceport, being equatorial
>> But just think about it - we could (/me waits 30mins for power to be
>> restored) double-up on the tourism angle - the off-shore pleasure city
>> could provide an earth-normal G red-light district for all those jaded
>> zero-g space habitat dwellers...
> 
> Damn you and your cyberpunk ways.
> Think of the noise from the launches. Do you ever want a decent
> night's sleep again? (Night launches are more spectacular - you can be
> a private launch facility wil want some good fireworks).
> No to the spaceport!
> 
> Dave Ph
> 
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