Cape Breton joins space race
Mabou, NS � Nova Scotia has signed an agreement to provide 300 acres of land and some money for a massive orbital launch facility likely on Cape Breton.
A spokesman for the Province, Mark James (business development executive, Defence and Aerospace, for Nova Scotia Business Inc.) said, �We are very excited! Not since Bluenose won races years ago, has anything really moved in this province like these rockets will.�
Geoff Sheerin explained how Cape Breton was selected.
�I put my finger on Baikonur Cosmodrome, the Russian launch site, on my little globe, rotated the globe until it hit Canada, and it landed on Cape Breton. It is cheaper to launch to the international space station from this latitude in the Americas.�
With scientific techniques like that, Nova Scotia has nothing to fear. Sheerin obviously has never been to an Irving gas station on Cape Breton. In order to save converting all its signs to accommodate higher prices, Irving simply started charging for fuel in English Pounds.
Two mock-ups have been locally produced to date. The first (Exhibit 1) is seen as the cheapest since the Nova Scotia is, literally, littered with lighthouses, and they do provide a certain amount of sleakness. The second (Exhibit 2), also built on the littered-province principal, is not so aerodynamic, but is �drafty enough� to carry the Nova Scotia stamp of approval.
As for the Canadian government�s take in the news, an unnamed spokesperson stated, �We look forward to providing employment insurance to a previously untapped sector of the Maritimes. I�m certain that once the astronauts are unable to locate Mabou on a map so that they can catch their flight, that these already miserable Nova Scotians will welcome us back into their bank accounts. |
