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Old 09-21-2011, 12:17 PM   #11
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No kidding? I'll be in the neighborhood next week. I might have to stop by.
It isn't very hard to find. It's up on "the mountain", which isn't anything of the sort

http://www.warplane.com/
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Old 09-21-2011, 12:21 PM   #12
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This is what it's about: http://casmuseum.org/about.php
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It’s also where de Havilland engineers assembled and tested the first Canadian satellite, Alouette I, which established Canada as the third nation in space when launched in 1962.
Not bad for a bunch of dirty Canucks. But somebody, somewhere, totally missed the pure marketing power that is...

First Moose in Space.

Would have saved your museum, guaranteed.
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Old 09-21-2011, 12:24 PM   #13
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Not bad for a bunch of dirty Canucks. But somebody, somewhere, totally missed the pure marketing power that is...

First Moose in Space.

Would have saved your museum, guaranteed.
You've got a point. Just selling ground cosmic-rayed dried moose dick, to the Chinese, would likely have generated enough cash to save the thing.
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Old 09-21-2011, 12:50 PM   #14
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Ya'll contributed to the ISS too, which may end up being a big waste of money since no one can get there anymore. HA HA!
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Ya'll contributed to the ISS too, which may end up being a big waste of money since no one can get there anymore. HA HA!
So get off your asses and build Orion.



And there's still Soyuz, for now, though they are looking at replacing it too.
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Soyuz is grounded right now, since they blew up the supply rocket.
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Soyuz is grounded right now, since they blew up the supply rocket.
But not long term, unlike the Shuttle. You want the Russians to own space, after all your country has done up there?
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Old 09-21-2011, 01:34 PM   #18
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PC, you might be the only Canadian that thinks anything is more important than anything involving hockey.

Yes, that was a blatant stereotype of Canadians.
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Old 09-21-2011, 01:37 PM   #19
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PC, you might be the only Canadian that thinks anything is more important than anything involving hockey.

Yes, that was a blatant stereotype of Canadians.
Well I don't seem to be a stereotypical Canadian. For example if water isn't wet I don't have a clue what to do with it, if there aren't any highball glasses in sight.
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But not long term, unlike the Shuttle. You want the Russians to own space, after all your country has done up there?
I want NASA of the 60s, not these asshats that managed to infest one of the most amazing things we have done as humans. To paraphrase Gene Krantz, we lost the human factor. All that technology we have available to us and we can't do shit with it, as opposed to what those guys did with barely anything.
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