Comments | c13: From <strong class="lj-user"><a href="/read/user/audrawilliams">audrawilliams</a></strong>

c13

From audrawilliams

Aug 16, 2006 15:17

Cape Breton is going to enter the space race ( Read more... )

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audrawilliams August 16 2006, 18:45:08 UTC

Aw! Yay! I was feeling like very few people were interested in this story! It BLOWS MY MIND.

c13 August 16 2006, 19:04:33 UTC

I don't see why people wouldn't be interested! It's huge!

boomchica August 17 2006, 14:24:02 UTC

is this something we should be excited about?

c13 August 17 2006, 15:11:58 UTC

Um, a space port in Nova Scotia? Are you frickin' kidding me???

boomchica August 17 2006, 15:22:18 UTC

It would be cool, and there would be lots of people with job. But, noise and pollution and what wild life are we loosing and marshes, and we are next to the ocean - what would be destroy out there? I would have thought somewhere in the middle of nowhere would be somewhere we could lose land for that sort of thing. Of course, I have not done my research to really make this statement...

c13 August 17 2006, 18:07:27 UTC

It's really just a matter of latitude. The site they've selected would allow launched spacecraft to start on the same orbital trajectory as the International Space Station. I'll admit though that I didn't really think about the environmental impact of the planned installation.

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coldconfusion August 18 2006, 08:24:57 UTC

I concur with the awesomeness. Me and my dad heard it on the radio on the way to work and were like "HOLY FUCKBALLS*!"

* Okay, so it was more like "Wowee!" and "Jeepers!" .___.