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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[museaway.livejournal.com]

::eyes widen::

My stalker was named Steve.

Annoying boy who drove me crazy was named Steve.

You'd just added to my doubts about all Steves in general.

Tell me, do you know any Andrews?

[lemniskate.livejournal.com]

According to the msn article about this, part of lance's participation is tied up with participating in like a celebrity reality show (like survivor, kind of ) and the cameras would film his training, and all that. They also mentioned sponsors. I don't think Lance will have to pay much, if anything.

I think the whole damn thing is cool

[icanreadyourmnd.livejournal.com]

and good for him for being able to live out a dream ... this is the age that Ray Bradbury and Isaac Asimove wrote about and I don't see why someone in the public eye and favor can't go off and do this, both to raise consciousness to the general public as well as to live something that not many of us will be able to afford in teh here adn now.

Plus, one of teh newscasters last night said: "From *Nsync to *Nspace." I love that catch phrase.

Why should he be ridiculed? Because some teenyboppers can't move on with their lives? It's all about growing up, kids. And if he's got the ways and the means and the ability and the abcking AND the money to do it, then good for him! And since it seems it's going to be covered heavily by the media, many of us who have only dreamed and written about space travel, will get to live vicariously....

[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.