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[glatt]

Um, who got them?

[infinite monkey]

http://www.daytondailynews.com/dayto...e-1134181.html

Bolden will announce that the shuttles will be sent the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space in New York, the California Science Center in Los Angeles, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

“NASA ignored the intent of Congress and the interests of taxpayers. NASA was directed to consider regional diversity when determining shuttle locations. Unfortunately, it looks like regional diversity amounts to which coast you are on, or which exit you use on I-95. Even more insulting to taxpayers is that having paid to build the shuttles, they will now be charged to see them at some sites,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, in a statement after the announcement.

TAXPAYERS...DO NOT PAY TO SEE THE SHUTTLES. YOU PAID TO BUILD THEM.

New York and L.A? WTF do they have to do with any of it? I'd be less irritated if they'd sent one to Billy Bob's Museem of Flite in North Carolina.

grumble grumble

[monster]

that sucks, munk

[infinite monkey]

I can understand the Smithsonian and Kennedy Space Center...but yeah, it's pretty crappy. Would have been nice for some cash to trickle back into our devastated by GM area. In the whole midwest, I think we would have brought some visitors.

God forbid NY or CA didn't get what they want, all the time, every time.

[glatt]

I never even heard of the museum in NYC. So I looked it up in Google Earth. It's just a pier, with barges floating next to it. They have the Concorde exposed to the elements on a barge just a few hundred feet from where ferries go chugging past every ten minutes. It's not like there have been any accidents on the Hudson where errant ferries have smashed into piers. Oh, wait...

They better build a nice building for the shuttle they get, and pull it up onto dry land. At least getting the thing to the museum on a barge should be pretty easy.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by glatt

I never even heard of the museum in NYC. So I looked it up in Google Earth. It's just a pier, with barges floating next to it. They have the Concorde exposed to the elements on a barge just a few hundred feet from where ferries go chugging past every ten minutes. It's not like there have been any accidents on the Hudson where errant ferries have smashed into piers. Oh, wait...

They better build a nice building for the shuttle they get, and pull it up onto dry land. At least getting the thing to the museum on a barge should be pretty easy.

I don't know how I missed this. Must not have been reported very much, or maybe I haven't been paying attention, but they slammed the shuttle Enterprise into a bridge abutment when they were moving it to NYC the other day. Damaged one of the wings. WTF?

[classicman]

Originally Posted by glatt

At least getting the thing to the museum on a barge should be pretty easy.

No way. Dragging that odd shaped thing not meant for water by a rope with the wind and tide pushing it around...

[glatt]

You'd think they could have designed a barge that would extend beyond the wing tips so that if the barge did bump something, the wing tips wouldn't take the full brunt of the impact.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by glatt

I never even heard of the museum in NYC. So I looked it up in Google Earth. It's just a pier, with barges floating next to it. They have the Concorde exposed to the elements on a barge just a few hundred feet from where ferries go chugging past every ten minutes. It's not like there have been any accidents on the Hudson where errant ferries have smashed into piers. Oh, wait...

They better build a nice building for the shuttle they get, and pull it up onto dry land. At least getting the thing to the museum on a barge should be pretty easy.

OK, so they have had the shuttle Enterprise sitting on this pier in NYC for just about a year. Let's see. So far they smashed it into a bridge abutment when transporting it there, scraping off a wing tip.

And now, the inflatable tent that housed it has collapsed in a weak hurricane, exposing the craft and allowing unknown damage to occur, but at a minimum, the vertical tail has been damaged.

Seems like they should have put it in a real hangar somewhere safer than a pier on the Hudson River.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by glatt

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Like Seattle.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by glatt
I never even heard of the museum in NYC. So I looked it up in Google Earth. It's just a pier, with barges floating next to it. They have the Concorde exposed to the elements on a barge just a few hundred feet from where ferries go chugging past every ten minutes. It's not like there have been any accidents on the Hudson where errant ferries have smashed into piers. Oh, wait...

They better build a nice building for the shuttle they get, and pull it up onto dry land. At least getting the thing to the museum on a barge should be pretty easy.

C'mon, it's not on a barge, or a pier, it's on a fucking aircraft carrier.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by infinite monkey

I can understand the Smithsonian and Kennedy Space Center...but yeah, it's pretty crappy.

As for the Smithsonian - it's the one Smithsonian museum you have to pay to get in.

Technically, it's free to get in the museum, but you have to pay to park, and there's no walking access. The Enterprise is there now; I saw it a few weeks ago. You don't expect how big they are.

[glatt]

Once they extend Metro out to Dulles, they should put in a sidewalk to the museum.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by glatt

Once they extend Metro out to Dulles, they should put in a sidewalk to the museum.

That would be a bit of a hike, and walking around the museum is a bit of a hike already.

Though there would almost have to be some sort of Metro arrangement, if its already so close.

[infinite monkey]

omg

I'm sure this seems silly to a lot of people, but yeah, I'm really really disappointed.