Men named Steve are the bane of my existence.

[bubosquared]

I um. May or may not have just hotly defended Lance to my coworker. Because I was saying how I'm glad he's making his dream come true, and how he's worked hard to get where he is and deserves to spend that money on himself, dammit. And he's going "Worked hard? Poncing about on a stage?" And I frown: "Excuse me, these guys work hard. They used to do two-three shows a day for ages." And he backed off. Hee.

Random thought on the money thing, you know, if he'd have just donated that money (I keep wanting to type "monkey"! Dammit, Jakob!) to the space program, no one would've thought twice about it. But because he gets to go with in return for it, he's being villified. Feh. People.

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[sonatine.livejournal.com]

The space geek in me is hopping up and down and going "You bastard!" coz it's him and not me. But it's also kinda cool to see a "civilian", albeit a celebrity civilian going up into space. (Dennis? Tito doesn't count coz he's a gazillionaire and can get whatever he wants)

As for injecting money into the space program, I doubt it will do much. Considering that all the money is probably going to go towards the training, launch, etc. And call me cynical, but I don't think one of the teenies' heroes being shot up into space is going to do much for reviving interest in the space program.

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[bubosquared.livejournal.com]

Actually, what I've heard is that these buying-a-place things are at least half going towards the rest of the space program. I mean, they're not doing the launch especially for him, you know. The rocket would've gone up anyway. And will, apparently, without him.