Saturday, November 01, 2014
I don't understand
In general I don't understand why the media continue to be excited by space travel. They still breathlessly cover each new "development" even though the whole project never did any fucking good.
Yeah, okay, we put a man on the moon. And then we started to destroy our own ability to do anything. The last Apollo missions coincided with the first EPA missions.
Now Branson is trying out something that he falsely describes as "galactic", and he's failing just like we fail at everything. And the media breathlessly report the failure as if it's a success. (Later note: Apparently something called the "feathering system" failed. Where have I heard that before?)
But this isn't remotely new. It's not exploring anything. It's just an airplane that flies somewhat higher than most airplanes and doesn't transport you anywhere. You go up higher than usual and then you return to the same place.
Why does he expect to get paying customers for such a silly trip?
I hugely enjoy walking around the neighborhood. On a crisp cold morning it's pure pleasure. I'd be happy to pay for the privilege. But I wouldn't pay extra to walk around the block on stilts.
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Language note: As I was drawing the sign for Danbo's little business, I was reading the text subvocally: "Walk five percent. Stilts twenty-five percent." The penny and its symbol are so thoroughly obsolete that I can't even read the symbol as "cents" any more. Time to get rid of the penny.
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Language note: As I was drawing the sign for Danbo's little business, I was reading the text subvocally: "Walk five percent. Stilts twenty-five percent." The penny and its symbol are so thoroughly obsolete that I can't even read the symbol as "cents" any more. Time to get rid of the penny.
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