Here is the website for the airframe on display in Speyer. The vehicle was discovered in Bahrain by the director of the museum and transported to Germany a couple of years ago. The (german-language) audio comment of the embedded video mentions that it is the only remaining Buran that actually was flying, if only for tests of the automated landing system.
... a Volvo representing Germany
Nitpick:
Volvo is swedish as well. German makers are Audi, BMW, Mercedes, Opel, Porsche, Volkswagen.
...to have a thousand chinese goldfarmers following my tweets?
I can see someone paying money to have followers in a certain target demographics, but only buying followers from the internet at large does not seem to make sense...
The N800 (and presumably the N810) also makes for a nice personalized in-flight entertainment device on long flights. Going from Frankfurt to San Francisco, I could watch a feature movie and half a season of Babylon 5 easily. I've got a USB power adapter, so when the N800 runs out of power, I can leech off my laptop's battery.
> Dude, unless some meteor comes along and kills us all, we still have *millions* of years to perfect space travel.
Actually we don't. We have a limited window defined by the expendable resources (fossil and nuclear fuel, ores, etc.) on this planet. We can invest these resources to try to establish new sources off-world. Once the resources are used up, we're stuck on this planet for good.
Might be that we already crossed that point. Might be that it is not really feasible at all. But I believe we're approaching a point where this discussion becomes moot pretty soon.
Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. - Paul Tillich, German theologian and historian
