Space Sports

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

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