[Martinus]

It seems space tourism and terrorism are mutually exclusive pass times now.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4589072.stm

[aldo_14]

"Are you a terrorist?"
"No"
"on you go, then"
..
"Are you a terrorist?"
"No"
"on you go, then"

..
"Are you a terrorist?"
"No"
"on you go, then"
..
"Are you a terrorist?"
"No"
"on you go, then"
..
"Are you a terrorist?"
"No"
"on you go, then"
..
"Are you a terrorist?"
"No"
"on you go, then"
..
"Are you a terrorist?"
"By the grace of Allah, you will die Infidel!  Oops, sorry...... no."
"on you go, then"
..
"Are you a terrorist?"
"No"
"on you go, then"
..
"Are you a terrorist?"
"No"
"on you go, then"
..
"Are you a terrorist?"
"No"
"on you go, then"

[pecenipicek]

"Are you a terrorist?"
"No"
"on you go, then"
..
"Are you a terrorist?"
"No"
"on you go, then"

..
"Are you a terrorist?"
"No"
"on you go, then"
..
"Are you a terrorist?"
"No"
"on you go, then"
..
"Are you a terrorist?"
"No"
"on you go, then"
..
"Are you a terrorist?"
"No"
"on you go, then"
..
"Are you a terrorist?"
"By the grace of Allah, you will die Infidel!  Oops, sorry...... no."
"on you go, then"
..
"Are you a terrorist?"
"No"
"on you go, then"
..
"Are you a terrorist?"
"No"
"on you go, then"
..
"Are you a terrorist?"
"No"
"on you go, then"

*chokes laughing*
 
 

[Kosh]

What a joke......

[Martinus]

In space no one can hear you scream Durka! Durka! Muhammed Ali!

[IPAndrews]

Dear god make him stop.

[an0n]

"Are you a terrorist?"
"No."
"Did you vote Democrat?"
"Yeah, why?"
"CODE 19! CODE 19!"

Or better yet:

"Are you a terrorist?"
"Err, yes, actually. I'm with Islamic Jihad. I helped in that hijacking a few weeks back. Killed a lot of people."
"Really?"
"Yeah. I was actually the ring leader and....Nah, I'm only kidding. I've never been to a mosque in my life."
"Oh - you. You had me going for a minute there. Third row down, second on the left."

[Black Wolf]

I have no idea why it's being built in the US anyway. Put the damned thing in Mexico and import American specialists on work visas. The government would be far less intrusive, for one, and any general labour would be cheaper.

[Rictor]

Space tourism security: because a lot of very evil people want to blow up the moon!

[Flipside]

'I'd like a pack of Cheese and Onion Crisps and the second bomb on the left please'.

Sheesh... You only have to look for the instruction book 'How to fly the Space Shuttle in 3 easy lessons' in their luggage!

[an0n]

They'd only need to know how to crash it.

And if anyone ever mentions blowing up the Moon again, I'm going to kill them. No-one touches it till I carve a smiley-face into it with a collosal laser.

[Flipside]

But even getting the shuttle through the Atmosphere in one piece takes a great deal of training, else you just end up as a very brief falling star.

[an0n]

Yeah, so you attack the pilot once you're in zero-G.

[WMCoolmon]

Falling stars burn up on reentry, so you'd have to attack the pilot during descent.

[Ulala]

It's probably so the brilliant American public won't complain I would imagine. *shrugs* I didn't bother to read the whole article though, so it probably is far more ludicrous than I'd like to believe.

[karajorma]

The FAA also suggests space tourism companies check the global "no-fly" list, from the US Homeland Security Department, to exclude potential terrorists.

Well that's Cat Stevens out.

[an0n]

Why would they need to?

What terrorist is going to blow up a Mexican space shuttle? That'd be like bombing Ethiopia.

[Jetmech Jr.]

Oh, please, stop your *****ing, people. It's hardly a ludicrous proposal, you all are just poking fun for the hell of it.

Grow the hell up.

[Ulala]

Although, after 9/11 I guess nothing can be a joke anymore. And after 9/11, no risks can be taken anymore. *shrugs*

[an0n]

But the question is: Is it worth it.

Of a nation of some 260million, under the good, old 'come one, come all' security arrangements, the death-toll from terrorism was about 10,000 give or take.

Yet all 260million have been ass-raped by the PATRIOT Act and other similar measures.

Personally, I'd put a bullet in the head of every last one of the 10k 'saved' under the new regime, if it meant I could get a package through customs without it looking like it'd been home to a pack of wild badgers.

But then the value I place on a human life is about 50p.