Wireclub Space Programme (Page 2)

Corwin
Corwin: Let's build the bar first... preferably near a beach... then we can all discuss the other minor details regarding the spaceport and whatnot over drinks.
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Aura
Aura: See, this is why you're mission commander.
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calybonos
calybonos: I still have my Speak & Spell from Texas Instruments to donate to the cause.

It's not state of the art, but it still has more computing power than the Apollo mission needed to put a man on the Moon.
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Nicotina
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Aura
Aura: That's very kind, caly, but our efforts are best spend searching for the most important equipment for the mission.
Who has a functioning beer tap to donate?
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calybonos
calybonos: I can make wine from a bed pan and some Jello packets.
You pick up certain skills as a trustee working in the asylum kitchen.

I'm sure the same could be done with tor tortoise shells and coconuts.
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Captain Canada
Captain Canada: I will contribute my skills has a well seasoned patron of the Liquid Control Station aka bar ,I will supply my own barstool and my own shot glass
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Geoff
Geoff: I think the consumption of alcohol in a microgravity environment is one that deserves deep study.
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Corwin
Corwin: Yah... very deep study. As well as specific studies of the effects of Gin in microgravity... the effects of Bourbon in microgravity... the effects of Tequila in microgravity... the difference between the effects of 12 year old Scotch vs. 18 year old Scotch in microgravity... etc etc...
... and then, of course we will have to repeat the experiments in the 1/3rd gravity environment on Mars.
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Captain Canada
Captain Canada: Commander Corwin ,by any chance you knowing a Mr John Hall,master distiller @Forty Creek ???
That gentleman would be a great asset in the program

Hommies and I are willing and ready to assist the program even

If

( coughs)

Kidnapping

( coughs )

Mr Hall
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davidk14
davidk14: .

How are you folks gonna pay for this excursion and which one one of you will be the designated driver?

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Corwin
Corwin: Meh... Isaac Newton is pretty much in the driver's seat for 99% of the mission, and computers handle almost everything else.

The human crew is pretty much just for publicity, and chosen primarily for physical and mental stamina, a high tolerance for alcohol, and the ability to look good for the cameras.

As for Wireclub's Space Programme funding... you'd be surprised how much people spend in the Bingo and Slots rooms.
Admin recently purchased the uninhabited Marchena Island in the Galapagos from Ecuador as the location of Wireclub's Cape Darwin Launch Facility and Sports Bar. All it cost him was 10 million Wire credits, and the promise that we will eradicate the feral goats and fire-ants that have overrun it.

No problem there. Eradication of the feral (and indigenous ) animals was going to happen anyway. Once we pave that sucker over, there's not likely to be a living thing on it apart from drunken astronauts in training, and the construction crew. Not to mention that Feral Goat Souvlaki will be on the bar menu, and when that runs out, the daily special will be Giant Turtle Soup and Sea Lion Steak.
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Geoff
Geoff: We'll have to be careful using liquid fuel, don't want anyone trying to drink it.

And no trying to baseline the LO2. :wagglesfinger:

Oh, can I make an emote request?
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Corwin
Corwin: Well... after the WASA engineering team weighed all the factors, and after a heated debate (mostly concerning what kind of take-out they were going to order for lunch), it has been decided that the launch platform and spacecraft will use ethanol as it's primary fuel.

The early Von Braun V-2 rocket, as well as the early American Redstone rocket, also used this comparatively inexpensive and easy to produce ethanol fuel in combination with liquid O2... and although it packs a bit less punch than liquid hydrogen, WASA has a tight budget to consider (especially in light of the secondary mission now in the works * ). And also factoring in the inevitability that our drunken staff and astronauts in training were eventually going to try to drink it at some point, likely after the bar closed down for the night. Now they/we can.

Plans are already being drawn up for the new Cape Darwin Distillery to compliment the Launch Facility and Sports Bar already under construction.

* The secondary mission in the works is designed primarily for a passenger payload, to send the most suitable representatives of Wireclub's pseudo-scientific community on a mission to explore the interior of the Sun. They will be instructed to make firsthand observations of the nature of the solar fusion process directly from its source...
... and then to... umm... you know.... report back to us with their important scientific findings.
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Captain Canada
Captain Canada: Report back,hopefully with a slight suntan
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Big Bopper
Big Bopper: As a potential candidate for the position of Designated Drunk, contribution of personally derived technology is essential to this mission. As a busy student in a reputable institution, a little-known source of food was found. Following each drinking and eating session(m.anagement e.ncouraged a.lcoholic l.angour) dishes, vessels, receptacles and implements are placed in a humid area and allowed to fester. The resulting residue is allowed to condition (r.etain o.rganic t.astes) to be harvested in the next sol, to be made into a jerky-like food. Therefore energy is saved and nutrients preserved reducing payload requirements.

Again, following each MEAL, dishes are left to ROT and enhanced nutrition is gained from their surfaces.

The provision of the above expert knowledge makes me an eminent candidate for inclusion in this illustrious assemblage.

Big (Burp) Bopper
(Edited by Big Bopper)
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BAD WOLF_
BAD WOLF_: Ok but this better not be one of those "lets trick them and say we're going to mars but really it's a suicide mission to destroy an asteroid"
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Big Bopper
Big Bopper: As mentioned in an above memo, anything used to destroy asteroids must first pass through Uranus. We must confer with the experts, but at the very least, Uranus must be probed.
(Edited by Big Bopper)
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Captain Canada
Captain Canada: I got my cigarettes,my barstool and my shot glass
Anybody know what time liquid control station opens
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BAD WOLF_
BAD WOLF_: Space the final frontier (besides sub space) these are the voyages of the website wire, it's continuing mission to troll new worlds. To seek new profiles and new rooms, to boldly click where no one has clicked before
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Aura
Aura: I read that in Patrick Stewart's voice
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BAD WOLF_
BAD WOLF_: We need a prime directive
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Corwin
Corwin: Captain Canada can be in charge of Quality Control in regards to the rocket fuel.

If he goes blind, we'll need to reformulate.
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Geoff
Geoff: Should we make a public statement about this being an entirely peaceful mission and we're not going up there to destroy anyone's friendly aliens?

The phasors are only there to deter unwanted probing.
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Corwin
Corwin: Unwanted?

That should be an effective deterrent though... it's my understanding that being disintegrated makes them VERY angry.
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