Home > Shows > Rebroadcast: 'Nine Lives' Open Lines
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12-09-05 |
Host: |
George Noory |
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In this rebroadcast from 11/05/04(1), George Noory hosted a special 4-hour night of Open Lines on the topic of Nine Lives.
1. http://archive.coasttocoastam.com/shows/2004/11/05.html
Zero-Gravity Sports |
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Several 'space tourism' companies are working on ideas for games specifically created to be played in the zero gravity environment of space. IPX Entertainment Inc. is planning stages for a show called Space Champions that will feature a sport called 'Paraball' (short for Parabolic Football). Rocky Persaud, president of IPX, envisions a league of eight teams playing the game in inflatable habitats orbiting Earth. Patrick Collins, professor of economics at Azabu University in Japan, believes zero-gravity sports "will be a stimulus to assemble large structures in orbit, once travel to and from space is much cheaper with reusable passenger vehicles." Read more at Space.com(1) 1. http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/051209_spacesports.html |