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- From: pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu ("Phil G. Fraering")
- Subject: Second space hotel
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- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 03:58:46 GMT
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- > More of interest, Pat is working on *Space Tourism* in Japan.
- >
- > Guess who'll have the furst space hotel?
-
- \It will be owned by Japanese corporations.
- /
- \But the staff will be British.
-
- /(Hey, Dave, if jobs are tight in astronomy, you could get a job as
- \concierge. And do astronomy in your off hours, in the hotel's parking
- /lot...)
-
- Hmmph. The staff will be British.
-
- Hidden in this statement is the implied "the cooks will be
- British" which means that whoever builds the second space
- hotel will have a good chance of putting the Japanese out
- of business.
-
- "Oh, you mean you're dehydrated from spacesickness? Well,
- we have lukewarm tap water or lukewarm stout. Which'll
- it be?"
-
- "Ice? We're hoping we can get some up for the next time Halley
- comes by..."
-
- \Bill Higgins, Beam Jockey | "Enough marshmallows
- /Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | will kill you
- \Bitnet: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET | if properly placed."
- /Internet: HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV | --John Alexander, leader of
- \SPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS | "disabling technologies"
- / [*Aviation Week*, 7 Dec 1992, p. 50] | research, Los Alamos
-
- Placed with what? A railgun?
- --
- Phil Fraering
- "...drag them, kicking and screaming, into the Century of the Fruitbat."
- <<- Terry Pratchett, _Reaper Man_
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