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Rock Talk, Vol. IX
Everyone's favorite Houston-based space agency is looking to unload two of the three space shuttle orbiters with the third shuttle heading to the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum. Interested? You'd better have at least $42M in your back pocket. For that tidy sum, NASA will transport the shuttle via 747 piggyback to the major airport nearest you. You take it from there.
What would we do with a Space Shuttle if we could get our hands on one? We've kicked around a few ideas this afternoon. We'd probably turn it into a taco truck or mid-century out the interior and live in it like a 1960s spacey mod pod. Perhaps the thing to do is set it up in the back yard of some ranch-style house and let weeds grow around it with a couple of pit bulls roaming around it...and some empty cans of Miller High Life.
We also pinged our Tweeps. Here's what they had to say:
- @docpants: Drive it to work. Finally, something bigger and more wasteful than a Hummer.
- @bshirley: park it on my lawn to annoy the neighbors - i might have to buy a few of their houses to get a larger lawn
- @organ_printer: What would anyone do with a used space shuttle? Outfit it as a teaching lab and head out on a national tour.
- Lance B.: Ill pass, i dont feel like being vaporised in low-orbit and then having my remaining body matter distributed evenly over the south-eastern united states. they should fill that fuckin thing to the brim with reality tv stars and, to quote pink floyd, set the controls for the heart of the sun.
Read more plans for the shuttle after the jump or leave us your plan for the space shuttle in the comments.
- Maureen M.: [make it] the obstacle on the 18th hole of a mini golf course
- Chris C: i'd fly to the moon of course...then i'd end up running something like 'Soul Shuttle', kinda like 'Soul Plane' but without all the crappy acting
- Dave K.: I would take it through the late night drive thru at Taco Bell
- Tal TV: Can we pretend we can do anything with the shuttle? It says in the article, it comes without engines and will have to be housed indoors in climate control. That eliminates many of the things I would do with a space shuttle. Like putting spinnas and hydraulics on it and driving it around my development.
- Mr. Projector: I would raise about four city blocks in downtown LA and convert one of the shuttles into a Science Fiction Movie Museum and Theatre. The theatre would screen revival prints of classic sci-fi films and there would be recreations on the inside of movie set pieces that you could actually walk through (the Gieger sets for Alien, the Star Trek bridge, the lobby from 2001, the cockpit for the alien ship in the Simpsons, etc.). Also, it would be the primary site for the largest collection of sci-fi movie memorabilia and the official memorial site for Challenger. I would also like a holideck and a demolecularization teleporter pod so that I could beam myself back and forth from LA to Houston any time I liked, but I know that would be a little unrealistic.
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