Re: SpaceX - Can the Pepsi Cola Space Platform be far Behind?

["Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxx>]

And I thought you would have developed a suitable sense of the absurd after
hanging out in here for a few years.



"Just Looking" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Is that your first idea is that government regulation of space (or
> anything else) is the answer? Damn more government regulations, I'll take
> my chances on the signage issue.
> So you're up to giving the likes of Obama, Biden and the rest of the
> Democrats something else to try and regulate and screw up?
> Let me see, according to the Democrats a woman has the right to an
> abortion, without questions of any sort; because after all it is after all
> her body. That "her body:' part is, of course, a fallacious as well as a
> biologically incorrect statement, but nevertheless, it is their own
> (Democrats) specious argument. I am not a doctor. I don't even play one on
> T.V. Therefore I don't know anything about the morbidity and mortality
> rates for women currently, region by region, for their giving birth and/or
> carrying babies to term.  I am not anyone to bless or curse any medical
> decision between a doctor and patient. However if that same woman happens
> to be in New York City anytime in the not too distant future, then right
> after the abortion she can't go into a restaurant and have a 32 ounce
> Coke?
> Not to worry though. Currently the United States seems to follow these
> rules for the most part.
> UNCOPUOS (the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer
> Space).
> I am not too worried about a Coke or Pepsi ad in the night sky. I would be
> more concerned about images of say Ernesto (Che) Guevara, Kim Il Sung or
> their ilk. Although the technical challenge and the opportunity to
> comically deface such images routinely "would be priceless".
>
>
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> "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:kpQvr.24432$XG.14386@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> Space X just docked the first recoverable private cargo capsule with the
> International Space Station.  Space is going private.  Is that a good
> thing?
> Can we regulate what private companies do in space?  If not is that a bad
> thing?
>
> I don't recall if it was Coca Cola or PepsiCo who originally offered to
> bankroll the ISS if they could have their logo painted the length of the
> station.  Now that we have private companies directly in the space
> delivery
> business how long will it be before there is a 500 mile long light array
> in
> our night sky proudly hawking feminine hygene products?  Without
> government
> regulation how graphic will it be?  LOL.
>
> The real question is, "Which one of us is already working on the shielded
> control and communication module for the giant billboard?"
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