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Lance Bass to Continue to Plague Earth's Surface

Posted by chrisd on Sat Feb 23, 2002 12:15 PM
from the to-the-disappointment-of-10-year-old-girls-in-space dept.
Space
thepooleboy writes "Looks like N'Sync member Lance Bass is NOT going to be shot into space! Yahoo News reports that Rosaviakosmos has not begun talks with Bass or MirCorp. "[Bass' flight] is just an advertising stunt, I can promise you," Spokesman Sergei Gorbunov said. "This is better advertising than he could ever pay for." Good! I'm glad that no cheezy teen pop videos will be staged on the ISS. At least not in the near future..."
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  • I still say they should do it... (Score:4, Funny)

    by wrinkledshirt (228541) on Saturday February 23 2002, @12:18PM (#3057584) Homepage
    ...only without the rocket.
    • Nonono. You need the rocket...that's the easiest way to get him up there. What you *don't* need is the re-entry capsule, food, water, air, heating, cooling...heck, we don't even need much telemetry.

      Just get him up...away from me. Where he lands...who cares?

  • Good (Score:3, Funny)

    by Nohbdy001 (265019) on Saturday February 23 2002, @12:18PM (#3057590) Journal
    I was starting to have flashbacks to that movie on the Disney channel "Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century" or something.

  • I think a poll is in order... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by thesolo (131008) <slap@fighttheriaa.org> on Saturday February 23 2002, @12:21PM (#3057603) Homepage
    The title of this thread seriously made me laugh out loud. I think I'll suggest a poll of the funniest thread titles to ever hit /.

    I'm pretty sure that "Lance Bass to Continue to Plague Earth's Surface" would even outrank the CowboyNeal option!

  • I hadn't heard of this at all until I just read it here.

  • Of Course Watson! (Score:4, Informative)

    by 1155 (538047) on Saturday February 23 2002, @12:22PM (#3057609)
    "This is better advertising than he could ever pay for"

    Well yeah... He even got it onto slashdot, as well as my local news, and yahoo.com. I think that is some good marketing, as compared to a commercial.
    • I'm amazed this made it to slashdot, this would only be news for nerds of they shot the whole lot of em off into space in some linux powered spacecraft.......and it "mysteriously" SegFaulted right about the time it hit the point of no return...

      [root@laptop]~/: ssh spacestation
      root's password:

      [root@spacestation]~/: init 0
      connection to spacestation closed

  • What would the 12 year old girls do without all of NSync on the planet? Can you say total chaos?
  • "Good! I'm glad that no cheezy teen pop videos will be staged on the ISS. At least not in the near future..."
    What concerns me more is that I was happy not knowing about this and for some reason slashdot has decided this was "news for nerds. stuff that matters.". Anything that concerns a boy band member is _not_ something that matters.

  • Wait a min --- something is weird with this story ....



    A quick search confirmed my suspicion -- this is the FIRST TIME N'Sync has ever been mentioned in a story directly. Slashdot has managed to avoid their names for this long ....

  • people worth sending into space. (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Alien54 (180860) on Saturday February 23 2002, @12:26PM (#3057624) Journal
    Personally, I think that there people that it would be worth sending into space.

    Although there is the question of who should we send to stay, and who gets to come back. Sending certain overly rich folks such as Bill Gates or Michael Jackson to space to stay only invites comparison to certain old Justin Powers tv episodes (from the series that never existed, yet)

    Any nominations for people to send to space and leave there? People to send to space and return for the benefit of mankind?

  • Again... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by minusthink (218231) on Saturday February 23 2002, @12:32PM (#3057652)
    I said this before when N'Sync was going to be in episode II.

    Who among us wouldn't do the exact same thing if we had the resources?
    • Who among us wouldn't do the exact same thing if we had the resources?

      And by "resources", you mean "a legion of screaming 13 year old girls", right?

      The difference is that if any of us here on /. had that kind of money, we would probably have it from our intellect, not from people writing songs for us, and some record company mass-marketing us ad nauseum.

  • If he wants to go... (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward
    ...he's going to go. He's got the money.

    The fact that he hasn't started negotiating with the Russians yet doesn't mean much - he's just contacted the people that are supposed to negotiate with the Russians for him. It'll happen.

  • ...this is the funniest headline to ever appear on Slashdot. I'm dyin'.
  • That's the saddest news I've heard in ages.

  • Am I the only one who's disappointed? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Neuracnu Coyote (11764) on Saturday February 23 2002, @12:49PM (#3057700) Homepage Journal
    Yes yes, we all know that Lance Bass is a rich popstar twit and we loathe to think that he can get a ride on the space station and we can't. Boo-freakin'-hoo.

    Last time I checked, just about everybody here was 100% for space-tourism. Shooting Lance's jiggy ass up there is going to promote that just as much as it is his crappy band. Just be thankful that he wasn't going to be the first. Personally, I'd love to see as many tourists up there as we can get with an orbiting Hilton to house them all.

    Oh yeah, and I liked the Daily Show's headline graphic for this story: 'N Space
  • The best headline I've ever seen on /., or in the media in general in a long while (minusing, say, The War On Terrorism - "TWAT"). Chrisd, you are to be commended. Anyone believe otherwise?
  • ... but I'd rather see him on the ISS then on tour... think about it!
  • nice one with the 'TWAT' but perhaps we can send lance up and test the star wars system.

  • Cut the kid some slack... (Score:4, Interesting)

    by BRock97 (17460) on Saturday February 23 2002, @12:58PM (#3057722) Homepage
    Come on, I am sure that quite a few /. folks wouldn't do the same thing if they had the funds in a heartbeat, at least those of us that could squeeze into a space suit (myself excluded).

    Of course, I am not quite sure where all the animosity comes from. I will be the first to cry out against N'Sync and all that Jedi mumbo jumbo that Lucas tried to pull. Bass himself seems to be pretty smart and articulate, though (from what I saw when he was on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire way back when it was fun to watch at a bar with friends with lots of beer). Of course, anyone talking with Regis Philbin would probably seem pretty smart in comparison. Now that I think about it, not the best way to judge someone.

    • Re:Cut the kid some slack... (Score:4, Insightful)

      by nomadic (141991) <[nomadicworld] [at] [gmail.com]> on Saturday February 23 2002, @06:36PM (#3058793) Homepage
      Of course, I am not quite sure where all the animosity comes from.

      Because he represents the worst in 21st century culture. It's not the money we mind; look at the last space tourist, few people here begrudged him his trip. I liked his going up, because it was nice to have someone besides the all-American square-haircut aeronautical engineer types actually getting to go up there.

      But a pop singer? Come on...

  • I guess he was (Score:5, Funny)

    by thumbtack (445103) <thumbtack@ j u n o .com> on Saturday February 23 2002, @01:01PM (#3057729)
    Out of Sync with the mission goals.
  • How about we send all the boy bands, Britney, and their like on a one way trip to Mars.

  • Lance Bass careening into deep space (Score:3, Funny)

    by Jeppe Salvesen (101622) on Saturday February 23 2002, @01:35PM (#3057831)
    (AP) Lance Bass rocked out during orbiting, and accidentally triggered an obscure mechanism that fired the propulsion system, sending him off out into deep space. Bass is still in contact with Mission Control, saying "Comrades, we have a problem" repeatedly. No comrades appear to be listening, though.

    That was my dream. Now I have to find another dream.

  • Lance Bass (Score:3, Funny)

    by Flarelocke (321028) on Saturday February 23 2002, @01:44PM (#3057871)
    You know you're a geek when you think Lance Bass is a kind of long fish.

  • Best headline in weeks (Score:3)

    by dstone (191334) on Saturday February 23 2002, @02:00PM (#3057922) Homepage
    Mod me down as redudant if you like, but props to chrisd for that one.

  • Bogus quote? (Score:3, Insightful)

    by wadetemp (217315) on Saturday February 23 2002, @02:10PM (#3057957)
    "[Bass' flight] is just an advertising stunt, I can promise you," Spokesman Sergei Gorbunov said. "This is better advertising than he could ever pay for."

    Where did that quote come from? I didn't see that anywhere in the Yahoo news article. And according to the article I read about this the other day [msnbc.com], nothing was ever said about it begin a done deal.

    If you're ever privaledged enough to be able to even SAY you want to TRY go to space on a partcular space flight, why should any of us put you down for it? It's only a step forward towards average Joe being able to take space flights, not a step backward.
  • . . .and now we take you to the ISS, sometime in the future. . . .



    (Lance Bass): Excuse me, Mister Astronaut, but after all this Tang(tm), I gotta whizz something awful. Where's the john up here ???

    (Astronaut): Certainly.... go through that round hatch, close it, and spin the wheel. When the light turns red, press the big red button on the wall, and the door will open to the waste disposal area. . . .

    (a minute goes by)

    (outside view) Lance Bass's corpse floating in vacuum



    And people think spending money on the ISS is a waste (evil grin)

  • You want to get the Earth destroyed? (Score:5, Funny)

    by wowbagger (69688) on Saturday February 23 2002, @03:44PM (#3058262) Homepage Journal
    Come on people, think this one through!

    We are already under a strict "No Contact" ban in the Galactic Confederation - we go shooting NSync members into space and we will downgraded from "Not ready for contact" to "Dangerous - destroy immediately".

  • What if Lance Bass, or the other BoyBandites read Slashdot?
  • I've just finished skimming through this thread, and while I understand why a member of N'Sync is the subject of widespread ridicule, I do want to pause for a moment and say why I think it might be a good idea for Mr. Bass, or anyone well known, to visit the ISS (as long as, of course, they pass the flight certification requirements and have been trained in Houston and in Star City, as all professional astronauts and cosmonauts do, to the extent that their individual mission requires.)

    The ISS program has been subject to some very severe criticism on the part of the US government due to cost overruns and repeated delays. The station was originally designed to have a seven-member crew and perform hundreds if not thousands of science experiments over its design life. Due to the loss of the US Habitation Module and the Crew Return Vehicle (not to be confused with the Honda CR-V), that crew has been cut to just three - and it takes two and a half people to just operate the station, leaving only a comparatively tiny amount of time free for science. The station may find its budget cut yet further if NASA can't rein in the cost increases, though the new Administrator is quite experienced at budgeting (which is, actually, why he was chosen).

    One way to help the station pay its way is these "pay your way" visits. They are not disrupting the station's already-existing schedule, as the "ferry" flights that are used for these paid tours are already built into the program. Their purpose? To exchange the long-term crew's Soyuz "lifeboat" for another every six months, the Soyuz' certified on-orbit lifetime. Typically, the taxi crews stay on the station for about a week, then depart in the Soyuz already attached to the station, leaving the new one behind.

    If you considering the importance of the ISS in long-term space exploration as a way to gain experience in long-duration missions (as Mir allowed us to do) and as a departure point for future missions to the Moon and Mars, you see why these tourist missions are important: help balance the shortfall in what NASA and other governments can't provide and help boost public interest in, and awareness of, the ISS program.

    "This is better advertising than he could ever pay for."

    Better advertising for the ISS. The more famous the proposed visitor, the more likely the news will be everywhere, regardless of whether or not he or she ever visits the station. And, if those press articles also explain in an unbiased way why the ISS is vital to us and to future generations, then perhaps its future will be assured as more than just a footnote or stumbling point on the way off of Earth.

    That's the real reason this is an important piece of news.
  • I didn't know N'Sync had names!

    Maybe they named them so they could sell dolls and 7 tshirts instead of just one? (Or was that Meneudo that had seven?)
  • Am I the only one who is saddened at the thought of the ISS project losing the money that they would have gotten from Lance's tourism? I mean, if he's fit, passes the requirements, and he's got the money, I say, PLEASE give it to the ISS!

    I mean, sure, I don't listen to the group and never will...But I'm all for expanding into space. The problem is that the ISS is running low on funds...It would be A Good Thing for space tourism to help further the project.

    I have read the /. hive wishing the ISS project would get more money.

    I have just read that the /. hive is happy that the ISS project is not getting that money from an excited young man just because he happens to sell alot of albums to 12 year old girls.

    I am confused. Which happens regularly on /. these days, it seems.

    • Re:boy band members wanted (Score:5, Funny)

      by ArtDent (83554) on Saturday February 23 2002, @12:43PM (#3057684)
      I think I'd be perfect. I'm in my mid-twenties, but I can easily pass for 16.

      I can't sing; I can't dance. I definately can't write songs or play any instruments. Hell, I can barely dress myself.

      Where do I sign up?

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