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mithridates
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Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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World Traveler
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| Mithridates, can you still speak Japanese well? Have you thought of going to the Tokyo Olympics? It could be a really cool experience. |
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optik404
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| Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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Tokyo is a great city. Should be exciting. Though it would have been nice to see a smaller city get a chance.  |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2013 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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| World Traveler wrote: |
| Mithridates, can you still speak Japanese well? Have you thought of going to the Tokyo Olympics? It could be a really cool experience. |
Sure do.
The last time I was in Tokyo though was 2000. Never really lived in a big city in Japan (always medium- to small-sized cities next to somewhat larger ones).
Here's the design for one of the stadiums:
http://s7.postimg.org/t5z6vbxd7/finalist_work_4_img.jpg
It's one that was used in the previous Tokyo Olympics that is going to be redone.
Now that the two are going to be just two years and 1000 km apart I'm curious what sort of inter-olympic activities there are going to be that couldn't occur otherwise. Things like having IOC members staying in Korea before and during the 2018 Olympics making a quick trip to Tokyo to check out the preparations that wouldn't be possible if they were half a world apart. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Mon Sep 09, 2013 6:01 am Post subject: |
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| I'm curious what sort of inter-olympic activities there are going to be that couldn't occur otherwise. |
How about spent fuel rod extraction? It's not water polo, granted, but it would presumably happen in a pool and I think it could be a motivating demonstration for the other "extractors" who will follow in their wake considering there are over 1,300 fuel rods and since nobody can withstand the radiation for than a few hours there will have to be countless teams trained in the future.
The only problem is if somebody screws up, the whole mess goes kaplooey and it wipes out most of the life on the planet (sooner or later - right now we're looking at later). |
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IPayInCash
Joined: 27 Jul 2013
Location: Away from all my board stalkers :)
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| Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 7:23 am Post subject: |
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| Busan is trying to get the Olympics but wasn't successful because of Pyeongchang (don't know the spelling, chillout Koreaboos) 2018 and Tokyo2020. It's a shame, because Busan would make a better summer Olympics than Seoul. Busan is a much better city than Seoul in pretty much every category for a visitor probably minus shopping. Weather is better, beaches, people are nicer, city is cleaner, easier to get around, and it's actually a GOOD looking city unlike Seoul which everyone knows is a concrete wasteland. Most visitors only come to Seoul which is fine. But everyone I know that took the trip out to Busan or lives in Korea and has visited both says Busan is better. |
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mithridates
Joined: 03 Mar 2003
Location: President's office, Korean Space Agency
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| Posted: Sat Sep 14, 2013 7:50 am Post subject: |
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Another reason to feel good in Japan:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24090322
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Japan has launched the first in a new generation of space rockets, hoping the design will make missions more affordable.
The Epsilon rocket is about half the size of Japan's previous generation of space vehicles, and uses artificial intelligence to perform safety checks.
Japan's space agency Jaxa says the Epsilon cost $37m (£23m) to develop, half the cost of its predecessor.
It was carrying a telescope that is being billed by Jaxa as the world's first space telescope that will remotely observe planets including Venus, Mars and Jupiter from its Earth orbit.
Jaxa said the rocket successfully released the Sprint-A telescope as scheduled, about 1,000km (620 miles) above the Earth's surface.
Epsilon's predecessor, the M-5, was retired in 2006 because of spiralling costs.
Jaxa said the Epsilon was not only cheaper to produce, but also cheaper to launch than the M-5.
Because of its artificial intelligence, the new rocket needs only eight people at the launch site, compared with 150 people for earlier launches. |
Successfully launching a rocket and deploying a satellite on its very first try is most impressive. |
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I'm With You
Joined: 01 Sep 2011
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| Posted: Tue Sep 17, 2013 12:27 am Post subject: |
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| Abe was on CNN a few days ago and said that they are in complete control of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. |
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