Well, in fairness... are you claiming to be the majority of readers on Slashdot? Because that would be pretty bold of you.
Certainly other people have heard of them. I've heard of them. At least one other poster seems to have heard of them. Google has heard of them. So one guy says he's never heard of them and they don't exist? How do I get that job?
To reiterate the rather crude point of the AC... we don't care what you had for lunch either. That you don't know who they are is, as a metric of their
I went to an L5 meeting when I was in high school. I was a big science geek, space nerd and Joseph Lagrange (the L in L5 - I'd taught myself how to calculate a few years before hearing of L5 society) was my hero. I took the bus across two towns to attend this meeting with a guest speaker from Caltech.
It was a major letdown in my young life. Instead of talking about things like orbital mechanics and how to make the economics work, the meeting consisted of kooks and was centered around making fun of people who didn't know the space shuttle couldn't land on the moon and a short speech from a woman who was writing a sci-fi book about sex in space. The best term that I've heard about those people is space nutters. I went because I wanted to learn and do something, but only learned that space is a cargo cult to many.
To the AC above: If the majority of readers haven't heard about them either, then "who gives a fuck about L5?" Seriously, if this L5 society is worth at least even a little, they should be known as much as Space X, given that they've existed for so long.
If you haven't heard of them, I'd say, well, so what? There are probably tens of millions of things you haven't heard of, some important, some not. That's a statement about you.
L5? (Score:2)
I was born three years earlier than this project and that's the first time I ever hear about it.
Re:L5? (Score:-1)
Who gives a fuck if you've heard of it or not?
Re: (Score:2)
To the AC above: If the majority of readers haven't heard about them either, then "who gives a fuck about L5?"
Seriously, if this L5 society is worth at least even a little, they should be known as much as Space X, given that they've existed for so long.
Re: (Score:2)
Well, in fairness ... are you claiming to be the majority of readers on Slashdot? Because that would be pretty bold of you.
Certainly other people have heard of them. I've heard of them. At least one other poster seems to have heard of them. Google has heard of them. So one guy says he's never heard of them and they don't exist? How do I get that job?
To reiterate the rather crude point of the AC ... we don't care what you had for lunch either. That you don't know who they are is, as a metric of their
Re: (Score:2)
I said if the majority of readers haven't heard about them either...
Slashdot is running so many (paid) stories on nobodies these days, the real stories get buried under a metric ton of crap.
Re:L5? (Score:4, Informative)
It was a major letdown in my young life. Instead of talking about things like orbital mechanics and how to make the economics work, the meeting consisted of kooks and was centered around making fun of people who didn't know the space shuttle couldn't land on the moon and a short speech from a woman who was writing a sci-fi book about sex in space. The best term that I've heard about those people is space nutters. I went because I wanted to learn and do something, but only learned that space is a cargo cult to many.
L5 is now the NSS [Re:L5?] (Score:2)
To the AC above: If the majority of readers haven't heard about them either, then "who gives a fuck about L5?" Seriously, if this L5 society is worth at least even a little, they should be known as much as Space X, given that they've existed for so long.
The L5 society merged with the National Space Institute [space.com] back in 1987 to form the National Space Society [nss.org] ("NSS") NSS is still around.
If you haven't heard of them, I'd say, well, so what? There are probably tens of millions of things you haven't heard of, some important, some not. That's a statement about you.
History of the L5 society here: http://www.nss.org/settlement/... [nss.org]