uh Tuvan throat singers covering Joy Division? YES PLEASE: LOVE WILL TEAR US APART

off stereogum

oh Ed, according to my weather widget we should have sunny skies from saturday on to tuesday. Yip Yip Yipee

Al, hurry, we need to severely fuck up this board realize we have no power over this board, before Paras gets back

thanks for the birthday wishes beck, muchly appreciated. KIDDING
But i have to copy beck and send out birthday wishes as well. From Hamburg.

in case anyone was curious, we are in hamburg now, Paras left the girls and is off visiting a friend in humbldorf or something like that. Tomorrow night i leave for Berlin for 4 days, where Paras is meeting me the next morning. And Jess may saty in hamburg for a while to spend time with her relatives, or come to berlin. then tuesday night we head back to frankfurt, where we spend wednesday hanging out, and thursday we are on the big bird coming home.

so one week and we are home. i tihnk we are all looking forward to the plane ride home. I know i am. Living out of a backpack for amonth and moving every three days gets a little tiring somedays. it will be nice to have a home again.

so once again, too all you birthdayers. have a good one. have a drink for me.

Hey, happy B'day to everyone whose birthday falls around this general time.

pfft, pussy is for pussies... i mean dudes. i meant to say dudes. pussy is for dudes, GOT IT?!?!

pfft, yeah SDFs are for pussies.

Lets start with the SPS first. It isn't 1 large solid block of warship like the SDF-1. After the SPS then we can start work on the SDF-1. It isn't that huge though, I think Russia's only Super Carrier is around the SDF-1's size.

Al, we could do it you know! All we need is some materials and a space shuttle!!! Hell, if we got some friends to help it would take no time at all!

Think about it; the ISS (international space station) will be the size of two football fields upon completion next year. Assembly of the station began in 1998. In other words, building an ISS takes 8 years. And you know how many people are in space at a time working on it? Two. Three if you're lucky.

Now imagine if you had 200 people in space on the job. Man, building the SDF-1 would be a piece of cake!!!

Oh and Eric the satelite will mostly be collapsible. It will mainly consist of long retractable girders and solar panels which fold out like sails. The largest solid part would be the transmitter but even this would be compact and pretty small. Probally as large as one of those space modules on Mir or the international space station. Just get everything into space and put it together. Once completed just let the sails expand and you are done. Basically instead of having 15 miles of solar panels on the ground it is 15 miles of solar panels in the sky. The girders can also be relativly thin thanks to the virtue of it being in space. No gravitational stress, even if there was it would be negligible. I think the hardest part is getting the money, technologically it is not really beyond our reach.