"Madonna's Bid For Mercy?"
Like a virgin (space plane)?I can't wait for private space flight to to really get rolling. I have a feeling that we're only a few years from the technology reaching "critical mass" and easy access to space becoming a reality.
"Madonna's Bid For Mercy?"
You wanna know what i'm going to do? i'm going to design and build the perfect simulator.
It will be a proper plane but the windows inside will actually be tv screens, the plane will genuinely take off the ground and get high enough so there's no gravity but the TV screens will make it look like they've actually gone into space.
Bwahahahahaha.
Damn it, I should have thought of that.
I remember that one very well. It was back in 2005, I think. It had Johnny Vaughan in it.You wanna know what i'm going to do? i'm going to design and build the perfect simulator.
It will be a proper plane but the windows inside will actually be tv screens, the plane will genuinely take off the ground and get high enough so there's no gravity but the TV screens will make it look like they've actually gone into space.
Bwahahahahaha.
Channel 4 did that about 3 years ago. Do you remember? Was it called Space Cadets? It was a reality tv thing.
[edit: yes, Here it is. Read all about it.]
They got a group of teenagers who were unfamiliar with space and gravity, and put them in a simulator for a week and pretended to them it was a space mission.
Despite the effort and detail the production team went to building the thing, and despite the excited tv presenters, stumbling over their words and containing their giggles to disclose the 'breaking news' every few hours, it was the most boring programme that had been on tv for a long time.
)I remember that one very well. It was back in 2005, I think. It had Johnny Vaughan in it.
Not to be confused with the Greg Proops sci-fi panel game show of the same name from about 10 years before that.
(It seems Channel 4 can't do a decent show with the title "Space Cadets" properly.
I remember there was a Childrens ITV show along similar lines, with John Leslie as a space marine of sorts.I remember that one very well. It was back in 2005, I think. It had Johnny Vaughan in it.
Not to be confused with the Greg Proops sci-fi panel game show of the same name from about 10 years before that.
(It seems Channel 4 can't do a decent show with the title "Space Cadets" properly.
"Earth Orbiter One to CAPCOM Krymsk, I can see two cosmonauts having a punch up."
Yeah, they should do something more fun, like a game... using a set modeled on parts of the Enterprise or something like that, and having little scenarios play out on the viewscreen and see how the crew respond.
Some degree of computer generated graphics can be used for space scenes, while actors can be used to role play a series of events.
I think the aim (to make people play properly) could be a score system. That various 'teams' could be sent on one week missions to this virtual star-ship, and their achievements are scored, giving fabuloso (or not so fabuloso) prizes to the high scorers, a la the crystal maze.
For now, Virgin will just have to be satisfied with sponsoring Formula One cars with controversial rear diffusers.
