[BNM] [OT]No doubt this will stir some people up...
Sam Watts
swatts at ncsoft.com
Mon Apr 3 10:23:28 BST 2006
The last big storm I think, the voodoo-tarot-curse/protection finally
wore off.
-----Original Message-----
From: Alex Studd [mailto:alex.studd at moving-edge.net]
Sent: 03 April 2006 10:15
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] [OT]No doubt this will stir some people up...
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
www.moving-edge.net
0845 345 5763
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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> dave.phelan at gmail.com http://www.davephelan.org
> "I think rock 'n' roll and science fiction were in a
> very real sense all the culture I had." -- William Gibson.
>
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