Lance Bass to Continue to Plague Earth's Surface 171
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..."
What concerns me more... (Score:2, Insightful)
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.
Again... (Score:4, Insightful)
Who among us wouldn't do the exact same thing if we had the resources?
If he wants to go... (Score:2, Insightful)
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.
Send Up Rich People, Get Space Commercialization (Score:5, Insightful)
If wealthy folks want to shell out big $$ to shoot themselves up into space, better for us -- they are voluntarily subsidizing manned space flight, and by extension space research, for the benefit of mankind. This is one step towards commercializing (and thereby individualizing) space development.
Am I the only one who's disappointed? (Score:5, Insightful)
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
Bogus quote? (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
Re:Cut the kid some slack... (Score:4, Insightful)
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...