Speaking about bugging out--did anyone catch this last night?
http://channel.nationalgeographic.co...vacuate-earth/
Here, the ponderous, multinational, big goverment craft is the one that worked where the one-percenters were blown all to hell on the anti-matter upstart.
I think Rand Simberg probably fainted when he saw that one--and then fired off a nasty poison pen--er--stylus.
Savior I was probably another of "kiss-of-death" Gary Hudson's ideas
http://www.transterrestrial.com/?p=4...comment-296310
Seriously, though, the more the merrier. I might want different ships to go to different destinations--although it might be best to have the rag tag fleet to draw from. At any rate, anti-matter production (even more so than nukes) is a
Manhattan Project scale undertaking that would bankrupt even Gates.
In other news, Alabama's own version of ENTERPRISE character Trip Tucker (i.e. Travis Taylor) will also be back:
http://channel.nationalgeographic.co...ama-blast-off/
http://channel.nationalgeographic.co...city-rednecks/