Check out GalacticSuite.com, who claim they’ll have a hotel orbiting Earth by 2012. Allow me to be the first to call “bullshit”.
I don’t have any in-depth analysis to back up my opinion, but it strikes me as unlikely that a company that can master neither flash web design nor English grammar can somehow pull it together and launch the general public into space in the next 5 years. If you can’t handle proper apostrophe placement, how can I trust your attention to details on, say, a reentry heat shield? I’ve never built a rocket or space station, but I can tell you that Engineering Physics 1 was a helluva lot harder than English Composition.
Not only that - but the hypothetical stay at this “resort” looks really fucking boring. I would love to go into space and do a couple revolutions. Hell, if I had only been a few inches shorter at 18, I might be doing that right now (long story). But the Galactic Suite package is 3 days. Sitting in a fucking tube. I would think even something as magnificent as weightlessness and looking down at the Earth would get old after a day if that’s all you’re doing. Oh sure, the site claims that the “space tourists will also take part in scientific experiments”. But come on, how involved could these experiments possibly be? “See, Mr. Trump? The liquid has formed a perfect sphere! Ok, class, be sure to write these findings on page 3 of your Galactic Suite Activity Workbook!”
Thanks to Phil for the find!
August 15th, 2007 at 5:20 am
I am to take it, I imagine, that mastering English Compostion was not beyond your wit - since you seem to imply that you did succeed in Engineering Physics 1. At least, I infer that you are implying that. I don’t infer, however, that that is the case; and my confidence in this is lacking principally because, while composing well crated English prose may or may not be considered difficult or demanding, it is unquestionably a less trivial task that correctly spelling the constituent words. And moreoever, if you can’t spell the words of your compostion correctly, the arrangement of said words is largely irrelevant, isn’t it? Your composition has singularly failed to impress, and the illocutionary force is entirely spent before the unfortunate reader even engages with the semantics. So when I read a post bitching about someone else’s (do, please, note the genitive apostrophe) failure to master ‘Enlish grammer’ (sic), I wonder whether I ought to heed it. Is it right to give consideration to the critique of one who can’t even spell ‘grammar’ correctly in a publication explicitly about grammar - especially when the complaint is precisly about the quality of English grammar?
August 15th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Damn it! I DID put an ‘e’ in grammar! Good catch. It has been corrected. The “Enlish” bit was entirely made up by you, however. Shame, shame.
I guess we all make careless errors while typing quickly, as is evident by the mistakes in your commentary. By your own principle, I suppose I should now regard your comments as “largely irrelevant”. However, being as it is that my sphincter is not as tight as I would hope the airlocks on Galactic Suite to be, I shall let your trespasses slide and address your argument on the whole.
Unfortunately, for all your attention to spelling/grammatical details (of others… not your own, obviously), you didn’t do so hot in the context portion of the test. You see, my post really wasn’t about grammar. It was about attention to marketing detail on a 6 billion dollar project. If a person or company wishes to accelerate humans to escape velocity and float them around in the rather inhospitable conditions of no oxygen and temperatures best measured on the Kelvin scale, well then, by God, they should reeeally focus on winning the consumer’s trust, in EVERY regard, that they are “on top of their shit”.
The Galactic Suite website is a steaming pile. Design. Copywriting. Site navigation. Graphics. It says to the consumer, “Hi.. we kind of did this site in a half-assed manner. Now, let us shoot you into space!” Umm.. no thank you.
I write a marketing blog. I don’t have to be on my “A” game. People hurling other people around the Earth at 17000 mph? They do. And lastly, my post was about GS’s marketing effort as a whole - I get to make a spelling error. YOUR comment chose to hone in on just my grammar comments. So for Chrissakes, chief, proofread your shit.