Space News Letter to Editor

--- In spacesettlers, "victoriatangoman" wrote:

> Check this out.
>
> ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox Say Broadcasting Pro Sports Is a Loser

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
pid000103&sid=aDrxF_aMol_8&refer=us

I would have to read this whole thing to know for sure, but it is
hard to believe that pro sports is "a loser." Maybe ESOPN and such
are cutting into the Big Three's (Big Four, with Fox?) take.

> I'm not really sure what your sports proposal is advocating. My
> first read of it is the novelty factor, rather than a proposal that
> embraces fans to cheer on their local teams, to follow the careers
> of players, and in the case of the Olympics, to cheer on your
> national atheletes even though you may not follow their particular
> sports.

Well, I can't speak for anybody else (I could try, but that would be
silly), but what I propose is *exactly* the embracing of fans to
cheer on their favorite teams, to follow the careers of players, etc.

> Are you advocating the creation of a large league so as to surpass
> the novelty factor?

Eventually, yes. I still think that having each orbital resort
sponsor teams is a reasonable earlier stage, though.

> I think that the novelty factor will wear thin after a very short

Maybe, maybe not. Look at the popularity of "extreme sports."

> time (not for the players though). Look how enthralled the public
> is with current zero-g activities? Not much by my reckoning.

And what, exactly, ARE "current zero-g activities"? Not much by my
reckoning (or yours, I'd bet).

> If you're looking for novelty that will sell, film naked zero-g
> gymnastics and wrestling, film zero-g sex and put it on pay-per-
> view ( He blasted her out of this world :) film "College Girls in
> Orbit Gone Wild"

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> On a related front, why not outdo the promoters of the "Mile High
> Club"
>
> http://www.flamingoair.net/fancy.html
>
> with something that you just can't get on Earth.
>
> TangoMan

That should be doable, with either a short orbital flight OR one of
the longer sub-orbitals.

Xenophile (GO, COMETS!!)