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I really fancy a smoke right now. I have no idea how long it's been -last I remember is stealing Zippyt's when I visited.... that's a good coupla years ago....

monster

04-12-2011 08:54 AM

My "home tabs" are cellar, bbc, annarbor.com and weather.com. I recently added cnn.com to try and get a more national news source. I just replaced that with The Onion.

infinite monkey

04-12-2011 09:54 AM

I think they're supposed to announce who gets the space shuttles today? Has anyone heard? Am I in old news already?

(crosses fingers) come on Air Force Museum at WPAFB. COME ON!!!!!!!!

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/

monster

04-12-2011 09:56 AM

I want a space shuttle.

infinite monkey

04-12-2011 09:56 AM

Oh, this story says at 1:00.

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/new...p?id=123250772

BigV	04-12-2011 11:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by monster (Post 722611)

I want a space shuttle.

and why not?

It is *free*, after all.

caveat: shipping is $28,000,000.00

glatt

04-12-2011 11:57 AM

I'll just pick it up. Tie some tow rope to the front landing gear and pull it home with the bumper of my car.

infinite monkey

04-12-2011 12:00 PM

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I would live in it. This will be the Romper Room:

infinite monkey

04-12-2011 12:08 PM

What a bunch of crap. :mad:

It's ONLY the National Museum of the Air Force. You know WRIGHT PATTERSON? the WRIGHT BROTHERS, without whom y'all wouldn't be flapping around?

I am so disappointed. AND, they don't charge parking or admission. All this history is free free free. I guess when someone isn't making big bucks off it...

:(

glatt

04-12-2011 12:19 PM

Um, who got them?

infinite monkey

04-12-2011 12:22 PM

http://www.daytondailynews.com/dayto...e-1134181.html

Quote:

Bolden will announce that the shuttles will be sent the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space in New York, the California Science Center in Los Angeles, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

“NASA ignored the intent of Congress and the interests of taxpayers. NASA was directed to consider regional diversity when determining shuttle locations. Unfortunately, it looks like regional diversity amounts to which coast you are on, or which exit you use on I-95. Even more insulting to taxpayers is that having paid to build the shuttles, they will now be charged to see them at some sites,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, in a statement after the announcement.

TAXPAYERS...DO NOT PAY TO SEE THE SHUTTLES. YOU PAID TO BUILD THEM.

New York and L.A? WTF do they have to do with any of it? I'd be less irritated if they'd sent one to Billy Bob's Museem of Flite in North Carolina.

grumble grumble

monster

04-12-2011 12:44 PM

that sucks, munk

infinite monkey

04-12-2011 12:48 PM

I can understand the Smithsonian and Kennedy Space Center...but yeah, it's pretty crappy. Would have been nice for some cash to trickle back into our devastated by GM area. In the whole midwest, I think we would have brought some visitors.

God forbid NY or CA didn't get what they want, all the time, every time.

glatt

04-12-2011 01:03 PM

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I never even heard of the museum in NYC. So I looked it up in Google Earth. It's just a pier, with barges floating next to it. They have the Concorde exposed to the elements on a barge just a few hundred feet from where ferries go chugging past every ten minutes. It's not like there have been any accidents on the Hudson where errant ferries have smashed into piers. Oh, wait...

They better build a nice building for the shuttle they get, and pull it up onto dry land. At least getting the thing to the museum on a barge should be pretty easy.

infinite monkey

04-12-2011 01:06 PM

omg :headshake

I'm sure this seems silly to a lot of people, but yeah, I'm really really disappointed.

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