It never could! In order to get Nixon to sign off on the Shuttle Program, NASA promised a launch of every three weeks -- something they knew full well would never happen. While it was reusable (well, the orbiter and the boosters anyway), it really was meant to work with a space station -- that is, Skylab. But it wasn't ready in time, so we sat out of space for years.
Now we have a new station that took way longer to build than we expected, which they want to deorbit soon. Frustrating!

IMO, the US should have run a long-term successor to Apollo from the end of the Apollo Applications Program (read: Skylab + Apollo/Soyuz) with the goal of setting up a permanent base on the moon with an eye on a sucessor for Mars.

But, as when you live in a house for too long (or have a job for too long), you stop being objective and stop planning for the far future. This is how we got where we are today -- a NASA that does somethings brilliantly and others not so much.

Was neither Russian *nor* German, unless Massachusetts used to be even further east...

Except that in BRIC, R = Russia, which I'm told has a little space knowledge of its own.

Actually, they had the Apollo-child angle in the episodes where Apollo is dealing with the black market. It just went down differently.
The casino planet's analogue in the new series was New Caprica. The idea (almost losing again, sneak attack by the Battlestar(s), the destruction of the base ship) is all there.
Baltar *never* led the Cylons, he was just a basestar commander. In the new series, he likewise was a Cylon agent of the destruction of the colonies and something more dangerous than a basestar commander.
Red Eye's analogue in the new series is probably Scar, though the duel is in space and it doesn't involve Apollo.
Count Iblis...okay, you've got me there. :-)

So...yeah pretty much everything. Just differently.

I'm with you on the most of your points, but the 70's Battlestar Galactica & the 00's Galactica are the same show exactly the same way the 1974 Three Musketeers and the 1993 Three Musketeers are the same movie. Or compare Mel Gibson's Hamlet to Kenneth Branagh's, or 1984's DUNE to the recent Sci-Fi. Things happen a little differently, but each one is a fair representation of itself.

To say that re-imagining is crap is to say that any story that is redone is automatically inferior to it's predecessor. Which I don't buy, because (who knows?) some day we might even get a version of Blake's 7 with good production values!

Did the new BSG go into territory the original didn't? Well yes, some. But *everything* that happened in the original series happened in the new one, which I give Sci-Fi kudos for. (Ok, excepting for the daggits or flying motorcycles...)

Unless Chrome is going to take on Windows 3.0, I think that's stretching a wee bit...

NASA still has the originals for Apollo 12, 14, 15, 16, & 17. (13 of course didn't get to land on the moon). They're at the Johnson Space Center's Informational Resources Directorate's video vault in Houston. http://www.physorg.com/news74962441.html/

...I don't see any conspiracy theorists tryng to discredit the other five landings.

Just remember that Old Doc Bob had it in Needles first!

The pattern I cut the grass with once they put the GPS on my lawn tractor!

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

...That should about cover it. Ho modeled VietNam's Constitution on the USA's, there's no reason Nepal can't borrow a bit.

...unless you're needing to attach to a Citrix desktop, where you need Java, Active X, or a client installation. And given the love for Microsoft by most Mac users... it's either Java (dynamic), or the (somewhat plodding) installed Citrix client.

Science Since 1500 by H.T. Pledge
More of a philsophical work than pure science per se, the book puts biology, chemistry, math and physics together and discusses each in relation to the other as well in terms of history and application.

Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius
All about ancient architecture and how to build arches, domes, baths, pillared buildings, etc with Roman technology and building techniques.

True, but it was "reported" to be sponsored by Senators Snowe (R-Maine) and Rockefeller (D-WV) on some of the "news" outlets.
Nevermind looking in Thomas, check out the Senate's Daily Digest for 1 April. Nothing there either.

Not only has this not been reported by any mainstream media source (AP/UPI/Reuters) or in any news source of record (WSJ, NY Times, et al), but that it's not listed on the Senate's website? Or that the PDF is a blank template without any names on it?

Methinks \. caught a regurgitates April Fools blog entry a couple days late!

(Yes, I've been playing with the infinite improbability engine... thus my fiance!)

Anyway, I've now seen a few seasons of DwtS. MOST of the time, it's a pretty enjoyable show even with the cheese factor being set to "Gouda". However, last season (the 7th) was regarded as weak by most of the viewers, as most of the stars were "C list" at BEST.

Compare the names on the lists, and DwtS w/ Woz just looks a lot more watchable...

Season 7:
Jeffrey Ross (Stand Up Comedian)
Ted McGinley (Actor)
Kim Kardashian (Reality TV Star)
Misty May-Treanor (Olympic Beach Volleyball Champion)
Rocco DiSpirito (Celebrity Chef)
Toni Braxton (Grammy Award Winning Singer)
Cloris Leachman (Oscar Award Winning Actress)
Susan Lucci (All My Children TV Star)
Maurice Greene (Olympic Sprinter)
Cody Linley (Hannah Montana Star)
Lance Bass (Former 'N Sync Star)
Warren Sapp (Super Bowl Champion NFL Football player)
Brooke Burke (Model and TV Host)

Season 8:
Belinda Carlisle (Singer in The Go-Go's)
David Alan Grier (Actor and Comedian)
Jewel (Singer-Songwriter)
Shawn Johnson (2008 Olympic Gymnast)
Lil' Kim (Grammy Award Winning Rapper)
Gilles Marini (Actor)
Ty Murray (Rodeo Athlete)
Nancy O'Dell (Access Hollywood Co-Anchor)
Steve-O (Jackass and Wildboyz Performer)
Denise Richards (Actress)
Lawrence Taylor (Retired NFL Linebacker)
Chuck Wicks (Country Singer)
Steve Wozniak (Apple Co-Founder and Philanthropist)