Word: spaceships
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Architectural traditionalists will be relieved to know that the new campus in Allston will not resemble “a wild spaceship.” But advocates of the red brick and white moldings traditionally associated with the Harvard seal may still be disappointed. “What does the new Harvard look like? It can’t be a wild spaceship, and it can’t be a replica of a four hundred-year-old building,” Christopher M. Gordon, the chief operating officer of Harvard’s Allston Development Group, told members...
...can’t replace.” Or at least he would, if Angels and Airwaves weren’t too busy boldly going where no angst-ridden alt-rockers have gone before. They are on a mission of the utmost importance: to play their song on a spaceship. A planet looms impressively off to one side. The whole thing only goes to show that, contrary to popular wisdom, adding “…in SPACE!” is not a cure-all for tired concepts. In this case, “the video that?...
This sensory overload of twisted preciousness loses steam toward the end, however, as the video ends with several unidentifiable creatures springing out of an acorn spaceship (which makes as much sense as anything else in the video) and dancing for the final 30 seconds. The relative immobility of the scene allows the viewer to catch her breath and think “that was completely nonsensical...
...there's one thing the twin tragedies of the shuttles Challenger and Columbia taught NASA, it's that when a spaceship ain't broke, the last thing you want to try to do is fix it. The Apollo moonships and the Saturn rockets that launched them had an extraordinary safety and success record, relying on the old concept of throwaway parts: When one stage of a rocket is spent, dump it in the ocean; when you're through with your lunar lander, leave most of it on the moon...
...rational person might have laughed out loud at the thought that although school buses are replaced every decade, a spaceship was expected to remain in service for 40 years. Yet the "primes," as NASA's big contractors are known, were overjoyed when the Space Launch Initiative was canceled because it promised them lavish shuttle payments indefinitely. Of course, the contractors also worked hard to make the shuttle safe. But keeping prices up was a higher priority than having a sensible launch system...