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    Image of Klebert L. Hall Klebert L. Hall
    08/05/09

    In reply to Should the Space Program Join Forces with Reality TV?
    "Should the Space Program Join Forces with Reality TV?"
    No.
    For one thing, it would encourage the space program to be filled with internal strife to improve ratings.
    More importantly, this is the mistake that jackass JFK made in the first place, that got us into the situation we're in with NASA today. Making the space program into a public media circus = fail, because the general public thinks it's boring.
    -Kle.
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    Image of Boas_MC Boas_MC
    08/04/09

    In reply to Should the Space Program Join Forces with Reality TV?
    When I was in Johannesburg a few years back, they had a channel that broadcast Big Brother South Africa 24 hours a day. In real time. And wouldn't you know it, but I had people constantly come over to watch. I was actually experiencing insomnia at the time, so I would sometimes pass the late-night hours watching night-vision footage of a bunch of people sleeping. It was strangely comforting.
    All of which is to say, don't underestimate people's penchant for watching absolutely nothing happen on a screen. Though I suppose they could spice things up with an astronaut confessional booth or a boxful of space puppies...
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    Image of gorehound gorehound
    08/04/09

    In reply to Should the Space Program Join Forces with Reality TV?
    excellent !!! Vote em all off to walk the plank in space.
    cause in space no one can hear you scream.
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    08/04/09

    In reply to Should the Space Program Join Forces with Reality TV?
    Snippit of future dialogue:
    "Whatever, I dont care what you think. I'm not here to make space friends!"
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    Image of k4man k4man
    08/04/09

    In reply to Should the Space Program Join Forces with Reality TV?
    I wouldn't mind a broadcast of Nikolaj Coster-Waldau for whatever reason. Just give him hair this time.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment k4man was starred k4man was unstarred
    Image of CParis CParis
    08/04/09

    @k4man:
    I'll take him with any hairdo!
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment CParis was starred CParis was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    08/04/09

    @CParis: I miss "New Amsterdam".
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    Image of EBone EBone
    08/04/09

    In reply to Should the Space Program Join Forces with Reality TV?
    If it's going to be a successful reality TV show, the temp on the ship will have to be warm enough to warrant everyone wear bathing suits, and the ratio of female to male astronauts be 2:1.
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    Image of LittleDragon LittleDragon
    08/04/09

    @EBone: you forgot the booze
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    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    08/04/09

    In reply to Should the Space Program Join Forces with Reality TV?
    If it takes some stupid reality show to get people excited about possibly dying a million miles from Earth, then we are doomed.
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    Image of jp182 jp182
    08/04/09

    @WestMantooth: ...wait what? are you talking about people WATCHING OTHERS possibly dying a million miles from Earth?
    I thought this article was talking about filming the 105 day test and not the actual mission.
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    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    08/04/09

    @jp182:
    I know.
    I'm talking about about people not caring about a fake Mission to Mars training more than the thrill of the real thing. I don't think the astronauts would be bored by the actual mission.
    Practicing just sucks. No reality show crap needed.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    08/04/09

    In reply to Should the Space Program Join Forces with Reality TV?
    Should the US version of 'Life on Mars' be added?
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    Image of WestMantooth WestMantooth
    08/04/09

    @EBone:
    Thanks for spoiling it for the rest of us! lol
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    07/11/09

    In reply to The Most Badass Female Space Pilots Of All Time


    I can't believe I almost forgot Marjorie Monaghan as Jojo Thorsen from Space Rangers: Valley Forge. To a 13 year old, she was hottest space pilot around.
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    Edited by Cash907Censored at 07/11/09 3:05 PM Cash907Censored was starred Cash907Censored was unstarred
    Image of MagentaCarme MagentaCarme
    07/11/09

    In reply to The Most Badass Female Space Pilots Of All Time
    Jadda Pinkett Smith from the Matrix trilogy?!?!?!? She's gotta be here. That is if you consider them space movies.
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    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    07/11/09

    @MagentaCarme: We talked about including her .... but she's not a space pilot.
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    Image of littlewade littlewade
    07/11/09

    In reply to The Most Badass Female Space Pilots Of All Time
    "you havent lived until youve seen a valkarie go down "

    Ahh the innocent 70s
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    Image of Torley Torley
    07/11/09

    In reply to The Most Badass Female Space Pilots Of All Time
    Arial Tetsuo of the Wipeout games. OK, not "space", but definitely a badass pilot. I submit proof!
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    Image of alphanumeric1971 alphanumeric1971
    07/11/09

    In reply to The Most Badass Female Space Pilots Of All Time
    I take exception to calling jinx a mean android.



    First off he wasn't an android he was a robot, and he wasn't being mean he was trying to help his only friend live his dream!



    So There!
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    07/11/09

    In reply to The Most Badass Female Space Pilots Of All Time
    Uh... where is Commander Susan Ivanova? She was the baddest StarFury pilot in all of Earth Alliance, and she road fire with the best of them.




    Besides that, who else could scare an enemy force even more with her words then the fleet of super-advanced warships she is commanding against them?




    "Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrei and Sophie
    Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is going to
    kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth. I am Death incarnate, and
    the last living thing that you are ever going to see. God sent me."
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    Edited by Cash907Censored at 07/11/09 12:43 AM Cash907Censored was starred Cash907Censored was unstarred
    Image of Charlie Jane Anders Charlie Jane Anders
    07/11/09

    @Cash907Censored: Yeah, but when did we actually see her pilot a StarFury? I searched and searched and couldn't find it. To be fair, my memories of this series are seriously blurry... but all the bad-ass Ivanova moments I remember involve her in the command chair.
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    07/11/09

    @Charlie Jane Anders:



    In the Hugo Award-winning episode "Severed Dreams" from season 3, Ivanova asks to be placed in command of the fighter squadrons, as she feels the presence of a command-level officer is necessary for moral, seeing how they will be going up against their fellow Earth Alliance forces for the first time. She's been in the cockpit before, but this was the first time we get a chance to see just how much of a badass pilot she really is.



    It's one of my favorite episodes in the series, and my third favorite space battle. Here's the best youtube video I could find of the battle. The author had to change the music during the fight, because of some copyright restrictions youtube put on him.
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    Image of I_Like_Rabbits I_Like_Rabbits
    07/10/09

    In reply to The Most Badass Female Space Pilots Of All Time
    Starbuck is so badass, she is sent back by God to save the fleet.



    Oh, sorry. I know It hates that name.
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