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- cmyk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Yeh. And this just in... there's a NEW Jersy and a NEW York too! Tell your friends!
- randyest, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Let's start the rumors about all the great jobs and welfare programs in space now so that maybe we can 'divert' some of the illegal immigrants in the future :)
- mhockey14221, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4this article has the stupidest comments i've ever read on digg.
- Strangers, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6MASA got Wilzyx to the moon, so they're ahead of the game already...
- INHUMANITY, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Si, fly. :)
- deelux247, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We're excited about the possibilities of the future space ports in Southern New Mexico and West Texas.
Diggers, come down and check out the area when the launches start a couple years from now.
Near the Southern New Mexico space port is the beautiful small city of Las Cruces, NM, in the shadow of the Organ Mountains. Las Cruces is popular with retirees and is home to New Mexico State University.
And the Van Horn space port isn't too far from El Paso, TX, a big city with one of the lowest crime rates in the country. It's home to the University of Texas at El Paso.
The Borderland historically has had low-income, low-education demographics. We sure could use industries that draw college graduates.
The food is great, the women are beautiful, you can hike, rock-climb, mountain bike out here year-round.
White Sands is nearby, as are Hueco Tanks State Park and Carlsbad Caverns. Ruidoso and Cloudcroft, N.M. offer skiing in the winter and cool forests in the summer.
It truly is a unique place: Anglos and Hispanics have lived, loved and intermarried here for hundreds of years, so it's rare to encounter the kind of racism and xenophobia you find in the Midwest and other parts of the country.
In day-to-day life, native English speakers learn plenty of Spanish, and native Spanish speakers learn plenty of English ... and nobody freaks out about it -- it's considered an asset to speak two languages and people are proud and eager to do so.
Bienvenidos (Welcome) Diggers! - SpyDerMann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a bunch of vapor. I live in Mexico and we need to invest lots in technology like oil refineries, water purification, and so on. Whoever approved the idea of a spaceport was an idiot. Oh yeah, did I mention our congress is full of rats and morons? :-/
- SpyDerMann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oops, misread. New Mexico, not Mexico ^^;
- dknighton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Great...an even quicker way to get all those illegals across the border. "Rocket Rodriguez" is soon to be the new "Wetback".
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I figured with that famous "mexican work ethic" the space port would be done with 6 months, tops. Atleast that's why we need a guest worker program, right?
- subcomandante, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3My God... It was in reference to a Simpsons episode. You guys suck.
- JonDiggsIt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1taco bell is really expanding its horizons
- freebirdpat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Just what we need, another unregulated border allowing illegal aliens in. We really must petition the government to stop this from happening, before we get thousands of aliens from some backwater planet that are willing to work for next to nothing and taking our jobs.
- crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1"The concrete pad is virtually the only manmade object in sight, but space pioneers don't dwell in the present. And when Bill Loomis looks around he sees workshops, fuel tanks, assembly buildings and a terminal welcoming millionaire space tourists."
This article is somehow related to the other digg about people's grip with reality... - jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Surveyor gets out and plots place for bus depot for aliens to return, then he plots a siesta building.
- cmyk, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1What a great way to thin out the Upper Class! The rich will be the pioneers in civilian space travel... and you know what that means? Carnage.
- fauxXenophanes, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I get excited about what Peoria will look like in 50 years.
- bamiam, on 10/12/2007, -9/+4"There's nothing here now," admits Bill Loomis, 58, a member of New Mexico's Spaceport Authority, "but I get excited thinking what this place will be like in 20 or 50 years."
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probably not much different - TenMinuteParty, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Billy Loomis was a character from the scream movies. Great article though.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1This comes to mind:
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=490 - zeio, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0The mexicans can send large aquatic mammals into space, like Willzyx!
- dseltzer, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0Where's the news?
- mistermanoli, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1i want my own mexican spaceport..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1Don't mexicans think the entire USA is a New Mexico, or part of the old Mexico?
The Pew Hispanic Center released a study last week which, among other things, showed that 46% of Mexicans in a national survey conducted in May indicated they would go live in the United States if they had the means and opportunity, up from 41% in a February survey. Further, 21% in both May and February said they were inclined to go live and work in the U.S. without authorization.
http://www.immigrationforum.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=764 - subcomandante, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2There's a NEW Mexico?
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