Re: Destination Mir

From: Ziana Astralos (zianastralos@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2000 - 19:38:50 MDT


--- hal@finney.org wrote:
> Sounds interesting, but they need to come up with a
> better way of winnowing the field. Just having some

> faceless Russian bureaucrats tap a guy on the
> shoulder and send him outside won't work.
> ...

Yeah, I wonder how they're going to go about that.

>From
http://www.flatoday.com/space/explore/stories/2000b/080900mir.htm
:

" In each weekly episode, two teams of Russian space
officials conducting the training will eliminate one
would-be amateur cosmonaut.
....
Unlike 'Survivor', the contestants won't oust rivals.
The mission is "all about teamwork" and physical and
mental agility, Burnett says. "We can't have someone
who's going to freak out." "

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