PaperWorlds.com is an online community for miniature paper models of stuff. Some of this includes paper airplanes — ridiculously complex paper airplanes. This one looks cool on the monitor … it’s three feet long, and takes 70 sheets of paper. No joke. Whoa.
This piece of news lands right in the heart of awesome … my only worry is will soaring gas prices kill this sport? Heck no, this is America. It’s NASCAR in the sky, it’s rocket racing. The exhibition event launches October of next year, and they say the sport league will start for reals in [...]
From the wire: New Company Launches With Aim of Colonizing Mars (after Sept. 26 use this link, because yahoo’s will be busted). No joke. They think they can get people up there by 2025 … though, judging by this quote from their leader (and the fact they live in Florida), they might be more than a little crazy. Not that crazy’s bad or anything. Here’s the quote: “If you’ve got freedom in your heart, courage to face the unknown, and discipline to deliver, contact us, and perhaps we can realize our dreams together.”
Would you be interested in getting involved (or do you know someone you would like to see move to a different planet)? Check out the group’s web site here.
Hey, in case you didn’t know, Flight Club is an online community for air travelers. Flight Club (the parent of this blog) has online tools that help members meet other members on airplanes and in airports — basically, we’re fun people that make travel more exciting. Business travelers, recreational travelers, if you fly for fun or for work, if you fly just once a year, Flight Club has a spot for you.
Membership is booming, so if you haven’t thought about joining before, then now is a good time. Registration takes about a minute and you can do it at this page. It’s free, it’s a fun site, uh huh oh yeah.
Virgin Atlantic Airways , yes, they have a sense of humor. It’s good to see large corporations with a sense of humor, so I can give them a pass on their latest promo: Who’s the top Jetrosexual. You read that right.
They just coined the worst coined phrase.
But, like we know, they have a sense of humor. They came up with the eleven commandments of Jetrosexuals. Here they are (written in regular english, not that “thou shalt” speech they have on their site):
I was thinking of putting together an online poll that allows you to rate how many of these you match up with. Stay tuned.
Virgin Galactic launches space tourism: Commercial flights into outer space start in 2008. It will cost $200,000 for the trip, which includes five minutes of weightlessness (that’s $40,000 per minute). Lots of people are interested in going up (no joke). Interesting bits in the article on the topic:
Hey, been away for a while … here’s a roundup of some recent off-kilter airline news, enjoy.
Don’t sit in seat 29E. What kind of plane? Beats me. But it’s run by Continental, and one man put together an exquisite paper-napkin rant and actual filed complaint on the topic.
I am picturing a board room full of executives giving props to the young promising engineer that figured out how to squeeze an additional row of seats onto this plane by putting them next to the lav. I would like to flush his head in the toilet that I am close enough to touch from my seat.
Airlines should release more of these … and let the people know what happened in the end.
I love cake. So when a news article about airports and cake crosses my eyes I take notice. A protester successfully launched a carrot cake at some muckety-muck at Heathrow — where the cake hit they don’t share (why not?), but it did hit. Read the article here.
On a completely unrelated note, here’s an awesome story about a slovenia model they were going to do a “dumb bimbo” TV show about … until it turned out she was smarter than everyone else.
I promise more useful content coming soon — between training for work, a vaction in NYC, and a computer that is having problems it is hard to post.
-Joe
Okay, so the FAA just made it clear: they don’t want billboards in space. Like, low-level space, billboards hovering in the earth’s atmosphere, where millions of people will see it every 24 hours or so. Sure that makes sense, as cynical as it is.
But, once they have the power to enforce this notion, how are they going to do it? With missiles? Monkeys?
I also believe there would be a huge “acceptance curve” with any company that dared deploy billboards into the stratosphere. What human being would actually buy a product advertised so obnoxiously? (Let’s hope we never hear the answer to that question)