Comments on: Links for Tues 8 Nov 05 http://blog.meriwilliams.com/2005/11/08/links-ii/ Making things useful, getting stuff done Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:17:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jeremy Dunck http://blog.meriwilliams.com/2005/11/08/links-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-18949 Jeremy Dunck Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:44:24 +0000 http://blog.meriwilliams.com/2005/11/06/links-ii/#comment-18949 Just in case it could be missed, I don't actually feel my comment above is correct; I was being cynically sarcastic. Just in case it could be missed, I don’t actually feel my comment above is correct; I was being cynically sarcastic.

]]> By: Jeremy Dunck http://blog.meriwilliams.com/2005/11/08/links-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-18948 Jeremy Dunck Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:43:28 +0000 http://blog.meriwilliams.com/2005/11/06/links-ii/#comment-18948 The Pakistan thing, oh, yeah. Here's my theory. Pakistan isn't a world economic power, nor do we need the location strategically (more like they need us), nor do they have oil. Plus, there were <em>lots</em> of disasters this year, and gosh, we're disastered out. Issue fatigue, I think they call it. ... Hey, did you catch Monday's Desperate Housewives? The Pakistan thing, oh, yeah. Here’s my theory. Pakistan isn’t a world economic power, nor do we need the location strategically (more like they need us), nor do they have oil.

Plus, there were lots of disasters this year, and gosh, we’re disastered out. Issue fatigue, I think they call it.
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Hey, did you catch Monday’s Desperate Housewives?

]]> By: radiac http://blog.meriwilliams.com/2005/11/08/links-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-18928 radiac Tue, 08 Nov 2005 17:19:34 +0000 http://blog.meriwilliams.com/2005/11/06/links-ii/#comment-18928 I've never felt the love for the ISS. Mir was up in space for 15 years, and in 1986 it was a pretty awesome achievement. Sure, I wouldn't be able to put a space station up in orbit, but I've never seen what was so ground-breaking about the ISS, just seems like Mir II. What does the ISS actually do up there anyway, apart from cost money? They should have spent the money on a space elevator instead, then they could be spending the money they'd have saved on an orbiting construction yard and docking platform to launch humanity off to distant worlds. Much better plan. Vote radiac for president! I’ve never felt the love for the ISS. Mir was up in space for 15 years, and in 1986 it was a pretty awesome achievement. Sure, I wouldn’t be able to put a space station up in orbit, but I’ve never seen what was so ground-breaking about the ISS, just seems like Mir II. What does the ISS actually do up there anyway, apart from cost money? They should have spent the money on a space elevator instead, then they could be spending the money they’d have saved on an orbiting construction yard and docking platform to launch humanity off to distant worlds. Much better plan. Vote radiac for president!

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