Re: Simonyi was in space - back already (Was: Naming Conventions?)

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:04:21 GMT
Message-ID: <pdgXh.27587$PV3.287911@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

Jonathan Leffler wrote:
> Bob Badour wrote:
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>> What are you talking about? I don't recall making fun of anything. 
>> Charles Simonyi, THE hungarian, is paying the Russians for a ride into 
>> space.
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>> Does anybody remember when that is happening? Has he already gone up?

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> Simonyi went up a week or two ago, and is back on earth again safely.
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> See for example: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6578835.stm
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Cool! I thought maybe it was this spring, but I wasn't sure. Oh well--shows how much attention I pay to the news.

I wonder whether Simonyi thinks it was worth the money after the fact or whether he finds it kinda anticlimactic. Received on Tue Apr 24 2007 - 00:04:21 CDT