Shoot Mr. Baseball into space

[Taro Toporific]

Dentsu wants to shoot ads in spaceJapan Times / March 5
Dentsu Inc. wants to send celebrities to the International Space Station to shoot television commercials....."Discussion has been under way to take such prominent people as Mr. Shigeo Nagashima there," Satoshi Takamatsu, a commercial planner for the nation's largest advertising agency, told a panel of experts at Japan's Space Activities Commission.
Nagashima, a national baseball team manager for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens and former Yomiuri Giants manager, is one of the nation's most popular sports personalities.

[Big Booger]

Why not? And what is up with banning space travel that is commercially motivated? I think it will just help improve the programs. All space agencies should consider this. What better way to generate much needed revenue? I'd let companies plaster the international space station with advertisements. As long as the cash is running in to fund the programs. It would even help take some of the burden off the tax payers who fund the missions.

??? Someone care to clue me in on why this is not a good idea?

[AssKissinger]

Totally agree Boogie. Even Columbus was in it for the coin.

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Columbus approached the Portuguese king and the Spanish monarchs to obtain a grant to explore possible trade routes to the west.

I don't know how they can justify not allowing someone to build a rocket and give it a go if they want to. Who gives a shit if it says Pepsi on the side? Hell, the Mayflower was a commercial ship as well.

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This ship plied the seas chiefly between England and the French Biscay ports of La Rochelle and Bordeaux. Outbound she carried such items as cloth and rabbit skins, returning with her hold filled with wine and brandy. She is also recorded as having shipped furs from Norway and silks from Hamburg.

[Taro Toporific]

Dentsu wants to shoot ads in spaceJapan Times / March 5
Dentsu Inc. wants to send celebrities to the International Space Station to shoot television commercials....."Discussion has been under way to take such prominent people as Mr. Shigeo Nagashima there

Mr. Baseball ain't going into space now....

Nagashima's stroke not life-threateningMarch 8
Yomiuri Shimbun
A doctor said Friday that legendary baseball great Shigeo Nagashima had suffered a stroke caused by a brain embolism.
At a press conference at Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital, Shinichiro Uchiyama said the blood clot probably formed in the left atrium and then traveled through blood vessels to the brain.
Nagashima, 68, lifetime honorary manager of the Yomiuri Giants and currently manager of the nation's Olympic baseball team

[AssKissinger]

We got the shoes...

[SIZE="5"]Japan space sneakers are ultra-high heels[/SIZE] Fri May 12, 1:12 PM ET



A Japanese shoemaker is developing lightweight sneakers for outer space, hoping to help astronauts keep their muscles from wearing down due to the rigors of zero-gravity.

Asics Corp. has teamed up with the Japanese space agency to create the sneakers and plans to donate a pair to Japanese astronaut Takao Doi, who will join a US space shuttle mission in late 2007.

"In an environment of no gravity, human muscles become atrophied and astronauts need to train themselves on machines," said Takehiro Tagawa, who developed the far-out footwear.

The first samples, with a soft heel and flexible sole, weigh only 130 grams (4.6 ounces) each and incline slightly upward toward the toes.

"By having the slant, the shoes would stretch a wearer's calf muscles even in the no-gravity environment," Tagawa said.

They also include a gap dividing the big toe from the others, similar to traditional Japanese socks known as tabi which are often worn with sandals.

"The divider makes it easier to stand firm," he said.

Asics launched the project with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency after a Russian cosmonaut visited Asics Chairman Kihachiro Onitsuka and complained that conventional sports shoes hurt his feet in space.

The space sneakers are made for use inside space shuttles when astronauts are able to get out of their special suits.

Tagawa said the company, based in the western city of Kobe, hoped Doi could assess the shoes when he blasts off to deliver the first components for Japan's laboratory at the International Space Station next year.

"We want to create a more space-like, futuristic design for the shoes by then," Tagawa said.

[Taro Toporific]

Here's a better way toShoot Mr. Baseball into space

We got the shoes...
[SIZE="5"]Japan space sneakers are ultra-high heels[/SIZE] Fri May 12,

AFP-Getty Images, 12 May 2006
Kobe, JAPAN: ....

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