[extropy-chat] Re: extropy-chat Digest, Vol 3, Issue 29

[J Corbally]

It would put a whole 'nother meaning to the Blue Screen of Death :)



James...

At 07:33 PM 12/19/03 -0700, you wrote:
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>Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 10:45:11 -0500
> >From: "Harvey Newstrom" <mail at HarveyNewstrom.com>
>Subject: RE: [extropy-chat] Paul Allen to be fourth Space Power
>To: "'ExI chat list'" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
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>Mike Lorrey wrote,
> > This release from Scaled Composites confirms rumors that
> > Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is the financial backer of
> > the SpaceShipOne project. If Scaled succeeds in winning the
> > x-prize, this will make Paul Allen the fourth economic power
> > in the world to gain independent manned space launch
> > capability. IMHO this absolves Microsoft of all, or maybe
> > just most, of all the evil things it has done...
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>I hope it crashes less than Windows....  :-)
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>But seriously, I told my partner about the SpaceShipOne project.  He thought
>it sounded exciting.  He said he regretted not being younger and having a
>healthy ticker so he could actually become involved with something like
>this.  This was the first interest he has shown in anything extropian I have
>been interested in.  This is real pioneering in his mind.  He has little
>interest in cryonics, immortality, uploading, AIs, etc.  But getting into
>space by private citizens (non-government) sounded interesting and plausible
>to him.
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>Certified IS Security Pro, Certified IS Auditor, Certified InfoSec Manager,
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