Coming back to CNN. Did anybody watch the hours and hours of repeating the same lines over and over again ad nauseam without any information content whatsover about the Columbia disaster? Well, yes, it's a tragedy, but come on, that happened to just seven people on a high-risk mission knowing what the dangers were. I guess that more Americans die each weekend, because of the absense of proper weapon-control laws. Yes, every American has the right to bear fire arms, that's in the US constitution, but it definitely does not mean that this right must be exercised without any registration or backgroud check-up. But I am drifting off. Coming back to the Columbia. NASA want's to make us believe that 22 years is no age for a space shuttle? Come on guys. That's several years beyond the point when any airline is thinking about replacing an aged commercial airliner. In my eyes the accident is no real surprise. Such a thing was prone to happen sooner or later. The only consequence can be to give NASA the money the rightfully deserve and to start developing a second generation shuttle to replace the old one asap. After 25 years that is high time.
Apropos Space Shuttle. Anybody seen the trailer to the movie "The Core"? Seems to be a disaster movie with the amazingly unbelievable pretext that it could be possible to stop the Earth's core from rotating and that the rotating core protects Earth from space radiations. The mind boggles. The movie seems then to show how mankind jumpstarts the planet's core to start rotating again. Well, could be an entertaining movie, but the story line as taken from the trailer is certainly way dumber than anything I have come across in recent years. And it's not a B picture. Looks like A budget, but D storyline, which is a combination that is found way too often in Hollywood productions. Anyway, the trailer featured a landing space shuttle "Enterprise". I wonder how the movie makers will explain that in the movie. The "Enterprise" was used on some test flights only but was never designed for any space missions.
Life, the Universe and Everything (part 2)
Apropos Space Shuttle. Anybody seen the trailer to the movie "The Core"? Seems to be a disaster movie with the amazingly unbelievable pretext that it could be possible to stop the Earth's core from rotating and that the rotating core protects Earth from space radiations. The mind boggles. The movie seems then to show how mankind jumpstarts the planet's core to start rotating again. Well, could be an entertaining movie, but the story line as taken from the trailer is certainly way dumber than anything I have come across in recent years. And it's not a B picture. Looks like A budget, but D storyline, which is a combination that is found way too often in Hollywood productions. Anyway, the trailer featured a landing space shuttle "Enterprise". I wonder how the movie makers will explain that in the movie. The "Enterprise" was used on some test flights only but was never designed for any space missions.
But I am starting to ramble, so I better stop.
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