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[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

I like the style of Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo - with that money I'd like to be the anonymous deliverer of (good) karma for a lot of people and organizations, but anonymity is hard in this world. My family is small - I'd take care of college for my niece, and my mom and sister would have no financial worries. I'd start a charitable foundation, get that money invested and working so it could serve as a steady stream of funding. Once that was all organized - I'd probably have no fixed address ever again; I'd just travel and see as much of the world as I could.

Could probably keep Orbiter Forums going till the end of time too

 

[Thunder Chicken]

Could probably keep Orbiter Forums going till the end of time too

Didn't OF get in trouble recently because it was getting too much donation?

 

[BruceJohnJennerLawso]

Didn't OF get in trouble recently because it was getting too much donation?

How... ?

 

[Urwumpe]

How... ?

O-F made two cents more profit than Apple for their tax calculations.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

If any of us hits the lottery big, we should set up a trust to fund OF in perpetuity, and put enough away to fund a cushy programming gig for Dr. Schweiger. Pay plus benefits, 40 weeks vacation a year, he need only work on Orbiter and answer all the OF posts asking "When will the next version of Orbiter come out?" :lol:

 

[Urwumpe]

If any of us hits the lottery big, we should set up a trust to fund OF in perpetuity, and put enough away to fund a cushy programming gig for Dr. Schweiger. Pay plus benefits, 40 weeks vacation a year, he need only work on Orbiter and answer all the OF posts asking "When will the next version of Orbiter come out?" :lol:

I suggest, we hire Charlie Sheen for these questions, if we get this money.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

I suggest, we hire Charlie Sheen for these questions, if we get this money.

Charlie Sheen would just spend the money on coke.

Maybe we could just set up a RPi with Lenny and just send all Orbiter update requests to it.

 

[Urwumpe]

Charlie Sheen would just spend the money on coke.

And make quite many people in poor Southern America very happy with it. win-win.

 

[Thunder Chicken]

I got a survey from Nielsen ratings in the mail, including $2 cash and a promise of $5 more if I completed the survey. Survey was pretty easy to fill out since I don't have any kids, don't have a landline phone, and don't own a TV.

I think a TV advertiser would despair if they saw my survey. They do not have my eyeballs and probably never will.

Ha ha! I got a nice crisp $5 in the mail today from Nielsen. It seems so crazy that they send cash - crisp new bills - in the mail. Always open your junk mail.

I really wonder how many others out there also score a big fat zero with regards to TV consumership and advertising. Even online I whitelist scripting for only a few sites, and those sites don't even generally have static advertising. The only advertising that actually hits my senses is radio advertising on the drive to work, but even there I listen to NPR a lot, so the ads are really "sponsors".

Really, how can advertising be a growth industry these days? There are so many technological ways to filter it out for those who really don't want to see it. Before if you wanted to watch TV, listen to the radio, or read a newspaper, you were going to get some ad exposure by default. Now, not so much.

 

[Urwumpe]

Google Streetview now allows some new kind of sightseeing in Germany:

http://www.google.com/maps/about/behind-the-scenes/streetview/treks/miniatur-wunderland/

Pretty nicely done.

 

[Fabri91]

Really, how can advertising be a growth industry these days? There are so many technological ways to filter it out for those who really don't want to see it. Before if you wanted to watch TV, listen to the radio, or read a newspaper, you were going to get some ad exposure by default. Now, not so much.

The vast majority of consumers/listeners isn't aware of these filtering methods.

 

[Linguofreak]

Always open your junk mail.

Heck no. That's exactly what they want you to do.

 

[Matias Saibene]

Can anyone tell me...

...Why the ISS is so claustrophobic, but the Skylab was so spacious and futuristic?

ISS:

Skylab:

Discovery One:

:shrug:

Personally, this comes to my head to compare the stations:
Skylab:

ISS:

:shrug:

 

[MaverickSawyer]

USAF brass have decided to keep the Warthog in service for the foreseeable future.

The Air Force is indefinitely doing away with its plan to retire the A-10 jet, a move that seems both inevitable and shocking, given the aggressive steps leadership has taken to get rid of the aircraft and the fierce push back they received in response.

 

[mojoey]

Do I hear an A-10 appreciation post coming?

 

[Linguofreak]

...Why the ISS is so claustrophobic, but the Skylab was so spacious and futuristic?

Because Skylab was a single module built from the upper stage of a rocket that is still the recordholder for payload capacity to LEO. If ISS modules were launched on Saturn Vs / INT-21s, the ISS would be spacious and futuristic.

 

[Pipcard]

The American, European, and Japanese ISS modules also contain experiment racks, so the cross-section in which people can move around is only a 2 x 2 meter square. The Russian modules are even more cramped than that.

 

[Andy44]

...Why the ISS is so claustrophobic, but the Skylab was so spacious and futuristic?

ISS:

Skylab:

Discovery One:

:shrug:

Personally, this comes to my head to compare the stations:
Skylab:

ISS:

:shrug:

Because Saturn V.

 

[orbitingpluto]

This place is claustrophobic?

Whatever the heck "futuristic" means to you, it may or may not have, but small it is not.

 

[Linguofreak]

Whatever the heck "futuristic" means to you, it may or may not have, but small it is not.

Wellll... compared to the inside of an S-IVb, I'd say it qualifies as "small".

OTOH, over time, given enough time, Skylab may have found itself partitioned into rooms and filed with equipment to the point that an interior photo might have liked much like what we now see on the ISS.