Dim Jeff as human (not kuma!). Set Jeff = weird.

[ishiyakazuo]

I've had some really weird thoughts recently. First, I woke up thinking about a YeLLOW Generation song I don't really listen to very much at all, so I thought that was weird

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[raditzsex]

I had a weird dream yesterday that I could do a Dexter voice (from Dexter's Lab) and I kept doing it, and I kept talking in the rhythm of this one ep where everyone's minds are infected by a boy band. It was really weird.

There are plans for commercial spacecraft, but they sorta coincide with plans for building a casino or something on the moon. I think they're waiting for it to be mega safe to travel into space, but that may be a long wait.
Which is also related to anime, in that in the Cowboy Bebop episode "Wild Horses", an old guy has been refurbishing the space shuttle Columbia because he likes the challenge. They ended up wrecking it in a daring rescue attempt. I guess when they made the episode, it was inconceivable that there'd be another shuttle accident this far into the program.

[telyni]

Actually, that's the point of the X-Prize, to get private companies into the spacecraft field so that soon we can have commercial spacecraft even just going into orbit for a pleasure ride. I saw a presentation a while ago about the differences between air and space progress. The main point was that spacecraft have been around for about a quarter of the time that aircraft have, and the mortality rate for the space program is about the same as aviators had a quarter century after the Wright brothers, so why don't we have as much progress on spacecraft and their uses as we did on aircraft after the same amount of time? The answer is that aircraft experimentation was always in the hands of private aviators, and spacecraft experimentation and construction have been in the hands of the government the whole time up until very recently. Also, aviators had a whole bunch of prizes set to encourage daring deeds that would push the boundaries of what planes were capable of. Until the X-Prize, there have been no prizes in spaceflight.