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Thanks to the tireless efforts of VH1, it is becoming nearly impossible, dude, not to remember. A longtime way station for people too old for sister network MTV and too young for the History Channel, the music network found sudden relevance in 1997 with water-cooler hit Behind the Music, a saucy bio show about the travails of rock stars. But VH1 binged on the show, running and running it until it collapsed (much like its earlier hit Pop-Up Video). In 2002, with ratings scraping bottom, the network brought in new management to decide, in effect, what...
...liked the pilot I wrote for Hey Joel and ordered 13 episodes at about $450,000 each--the most money the channel had ever spent on a series. The only reason VH1 could afford it was that the station hired Canadian animators and a Canadian supporting actor, which brought in Canadian government funding in what may be the most wasteful use of Canadian tax dollars since the country went bilingual...
...years remaining before the most recent--and possibly still unreliable--target date for the station's completion means six more years of money and labor poured into the seemingly endless project. With shuttle and station operations consuming about 40% of NASA's $15.5 billion annual budget, it's no wonder the President's moon-and-Mars plan calls for no new component to fly until 2014. It's only then that the real spending--perhaps $170 billion, according to NASA's estimates, and probably much more--could begin...
...maybe even save the environment back home. If you could set up automated lunar factories to extract the silicon and turn it into solar cells, says David Criswell, director of the Institute for Space Systems Operations at the University of Houston, the moon could become a solar power station, beaming clean energy via microwaves back to Earth. "If you want to provide sustainable energy for 10 billion people by 2050," he says, "there is no other...
...Arlington, Va., is marketing that trip and claims that 100 would-be astronauts have already put down deposits. An orbiting hotel may not be so far behind. Nevada real estate magnate Robert Bigelow says he's ahead of schedule in his $500 million plan to launch a modular space station by 2015, one that he says would have "multiple uses," including, perhaps, rooms for couples to engage in a little space nookie...