Russian firm announces space hotel
Group vows to fill vacuum in space tourism market with orbiting facility
Published Thursday September 30th, 2010
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW – A Russian firm announced an ambitious bid to fill the vacuum in the space tourism market by stationing an orbiting hotel in the cosmos yesterday.
The Moscow-based Orbital Technologies has sky-high hopes that its planned Commercial Space Station can serve as a tourism hub for well-heeled travellers and offer overspill accommodation for the International Space Station and workspace for science projects.
But it’s unlikely to come anytime soon – the company wants to launch a seven-room station by 2016 but may increase […]
The Weird, Wild West for BRP
A NEW BASIC ROLEPLAYING SETTING
Devil’s Gulch is a typical town of the American Old West from 1870 through 1885. It is a collection of buildings set along a single dirt road with side streets where private residences are found. It features saloons, a bank, a general store, and a church. Most buildings are made of wood, though some boast of a brick addition or a stone foundation). Hitching rails are found in front of most buildings, and water troughs are set sporadically along the main street. Train tracks form one of the town’s borders. On the outskirts […]
Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity
An all-new sourcebook for Call of Cthulhu and Delta Green, developed by Arc Dream Publishing for publication by Pagan Publishing, and licensed by Chaosium Inc.
Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity is a conglomeration of evils, many of them whispered in hints and rumors since the earliest days of Delta Green.
Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity includes:
Black Cod Island: An inhuman menace rises from the frigid waters of southern Alaska. Three hundred years ago the Haida Indians fought to stamp it out. They failed. Can a handful of Delta Green agents fare any […]