The idea of sports in space has recently popped up in various
threads and I've noticed that thus far discussion has been limited
by the need for an "arena."

Well, why don't we play them in the great vastness of space itself.

The players are suited up, their suits have propulsion packs.

There is a little remote camera that tracks each player.

Let the audience see the big picture with all the strategic vistas
and details on each player and team, but the players can only track
their opposition by first spotting them and then keeping track of
them.

Play the game amidst all of the debris of LEO and players scoot and
hide amongst all of the obstacles and try to locate fuel caches for
their packs.

Let the vastness and 3-D of space come to the fore.

Nah, too many things wrong with the idea, but you get my point, why
restrict our thinking to Earth games.

TangoMan

I like the idea of sports because it's one of the few areas that cannot be
copied on earth. One of my favorite ideas is a series of races (kind of like
the pod race in Star Wars 1) in which the players enter their handmade
rockets or solar sails in order to win a cash prize. Such a race would
display a lot of computer graphics to help the public follow the race. A
bonus of such a exciting race in space is that it would expose many
impressable minds to the fine art of enginnering, math, and other skills
needed for survival. It would help create more students who are eager to
learn space skills which would create a larger pool of workers for the growth
of space economy.

Carl E. Mullin
visionary artist and entrepreneur
homo asteralis
ravenart@...
www.ravenartstudio.com

"There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is
the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness." ~ H.L.
Mencken

TOP TEN REASONS WHY BEING DEAF IS GREAT - Carl Mullin

10. Its a great way to meet babes
9. Say all the Read My Lips jokes
8. Cuss in sign language without anybody catching you.
7. Ignore Mom with batteries dead
6. Come to work late on I didnt hear my alarm clock
5. Be your own star, demand attention!
4. Eardrop while nobody notices you hear everything
3. You can shut out Al Sharpton
2. You dont hear the garbage truck at 3 oclock in the morning
1. You can drive the mugger crazy by saying What?! What did you said?!
What?!

On Monday, May 12, 2003, at 08:11 PM, victoriatangoman wrote:

> The idea of sports in space has recently popped up in various
> threads and I've noticed that thus far discussion has been limited
> by the need for an "arena."
>
> Well, why don't we play them in the great vastness of space itself.

Safety concerns will eliminate all contact sports, and most others.

>

The dinosaurs were destroyed by an asteroid because they weren't
space-faring. It's almost as if Gaia then thought "Well, dinosaurs
worked pretty well, but space-faring is necessary. Maybe I'll should
try mammals this time." Humanity is now developing systems to detect
and deflect asteroids, and could build orbital space colonies to spread
beyond Earth to insure life would survive a planetary catastrophe.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

Views expressed in this email are only my opinions and are not the
position of any organization I'm familiar with.

There have been several attempts to get a solar sail race going, but
none has succeeded. Might work though. Any good promoters in the
house?

On Tuesday, May 13, 2003, at 06:22 AM, Ravenart@... wrote:

> I like the idea of sports because it's one of the few areas that
> cannot be
> copied on earth. One of my favorite ideas is a series of races (kind
> of like
> the pod race in Star Wars 1) in which the players enter their handmade
> rockets or solar sails in order to win a cash prize. Such a race would
> display a lot of computer graphics to help the public follow the race.
> A
> bonus of such a exciting race in space is that it would expose many
> impressable minds to the fine art of enginnering, math, and other
> skills
> needed for survival. It would help create more students who are eager
> to
> learn space skills which would create a larger pool of workers for the
> growth
> of space economy.
>
> Carl E. Mullin
> visionary artist and entrepreneur
> homo asteralis
> ravenart@...
> www.ravenartstudio.com
>
> "There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and
> that is
> the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness."
> ~ H.L.
> Mencken
>
> TOP TEN REASONS WHY BEING DEAF IS GREAT - Carl Mullin
>
> 10. Its a great way to meet babes
> 9. Say all the Read My Lips jokes
> 8. Cuss in sign language without anybody catching you.
> 7. Ignore Mom with batteries dead
> 6. Come to work late on I didnt hear my alarm clock
> 5. Be your own star, demand attention!
> 4. Eardrop while nobody notices you hear everything
> 3. You can shut out Al Sharpton
> 2. You dont hear the garbage truck at 3 oclock in the morning
> 1. You can drive the mugger crazy by saying What?! What did you
> said?!
> What?!
>

Space tourism could be our ticket to the stars. Save your pennies,
suborbital flights for $100,000 may start in 2005! See
http://www.spaceadventures.com/suborbital for details.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html

Views expressed in this email are only my opinions and are not the
position of any organization I'm familiar with.

To the TangoDancer I say: Dude! Please join my SpaceSports group!
Pretty please!! This is the kind of thinking that I like. And I did
not think of anything like it myself. Mostly, I thought of stuff in
an arena, with the athletes in shorts and jersies. Though some of
that is good too, if I do say so myself (and I do).

--- In spacesettlers, "victoriatangoman" wrote:

> The idea of sports in space has recently popped up in various
> threads and I've noticed that thus far discussion has been limited
> by the need for an "arena."
>
> Well, why don't we play them in the great vastness of space itself.
>
> The players are suited up, their suits have propulsion packs.
>
> There is a little remote camera that tracks each player.
>
> Let the audience see the big picture with all the strategic vistas
> and details on each player and team, but the players can only track
> their opposition by first spotting them and then keeping track of
> them.
>
> Play the game amidst all of the debris of LEO and players scoot and
> hide amongst all of the obstacles and try to locate fuel caches for
> their packs.
>
> Let the vastness and 3-D of space come to the fore.
>
> Nah, too many things wrong with the idea, but you get my point, why
> restrict our thinking to Earth games.
>
> TangoMan

Xenophile (what do you want for the video game rights to this? NAH!
I couldn't afford it anyway)