space@mit-mc (02/19/85)
From: nsc@Mitre-Bedford Amen to nix to guitars in space and, by the way, to cremaspaceatoriums. Guitars in space sounds like a high school science fair project. If the idea is to provide a forum for discussing space technology issues, this is not one of them. It's a nit that's been fairly well picked by now. Discussions of ashes in space will be as shortly remembered as discussions of the dynamics of hula hoops. Concur with the idea of "INFO-SPACE-JUNK" (sorta reminds you of the defunct TV series QUARK, doesn't it?), but Ron's alternative is "INFO-NASA". That would be a fairly interesting and highly patronized bboard, I'm sure. But INFO-NASA is not exactly the same as INFO-SPACE. Nor is INFO-DOD-SPACE the same, but you can't talk about space in a vacuum (sorry). It's NASA and it's DOD and it's commercial space too. That's what I think (and thought before I signed on) SPACE-ENTHUSIASTS should be. Bull (Navy Space Planner) (Views probably not exactly those of the management, but pretty close I'd reckon.)
al@ames.UUCP (Al Globus) (02/21/85)
> From: nsc@Mitre-Bedford > > > Amen to nix to guitars in space and, by the way, to cremaspaceatoriums. > > Guitars in space sounds like a high school science fair project. If the > idea is to provide a forum for discussing space technology issues, this > is not one of them. It's a nit that's been fairly well picked by now. > > Discussions of ashes in space will be as shortly remembered as discussions of > the dynamics of hula hoops. > > Concur with the idea of "INFO-SPACE-JUNK" (sorta reminds you of the defunct > TV series QUARK, doesn't it?), but Ron's alternative is "INFO-NASA". That > would be a fairly interesting and highly patronized bboard, I'm sure. But > INFO-NASA is not exactly the same as INFO-SPACE. Nor is INFO-DOD-SPACE the > same, but you can't talk about space in a vacuum (sorry). It's NASA and it's > DOD and it's commercial space too. > > That's what I think (and thought before I signed on) SPACE-ENTHUSIASTS > should be. > > Bull (Navy Space Planner) (Views probably not exactly those of the management, > but pretty close I'd reckon.) I feel that the net in general is a good place for stuff on the fringe. If you spend much time on the fringe you're bound to go over the line from time to time. I, for one, didn't mind and even enjoyed the guitar thing even though it was entirely off base. At least it wasn't the same old s---. As for space burial, I think it's a idiotic concept - and that the net is a perfect place to discuss it.