Shelly Palmer Radio Report – June 1, 2012

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Now that SpaceX has ushered in the era of privatized space travel.  Where do we go from here?  Yesterday, Dragon, SpaceX’s Appolo-like space capsule successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean just off Baja California.  The flight was monitored by NASA, SpaceX and every other organization that could possibly monitor a spacecraft landing on the Earth.  SpaceX is a private company doing contract work for the government – but it certainly doesn’t have to. In 1492, Queen Isabella I of Castileand King Ferdinand II of Aragon decided to fund Christopher Columbus’ expedition in the hope of bypassing Portugal’s monopoly on west African routes to “the Indies” by travelling west across the Atlantic.  America may have been discovered by a government contractor, but it didn’t take long for private investors and private companies to become the dominant players.  What will happen in space?  Go re-watch the opening of 2001: A Space Odyssey, change the logos to ones you recognize and you’ll have a good idea.

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Shelly Palmer

Shelly Palmer is Fox 5 New York's On-air Tech Expert (WNYW-TV) and the host of Fox Television's monthly show Shelly Palmer Digital Living. He also hosts United Stations Radio Network's, Shelly Palmer Digital Living Daily, a daily syndicated radio report that features insightful commentary and a unique insiders take on the biggest stories in technology, media, and entertainment. He is Managing Director of Advanced Media Ventures Group, LLC an industry-leading advisory and business development firm and a member of the Executive Committee of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (the organization that bestows the coveted Emmy® Awards).

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  • Hollywood5459

    So instead Isabella and Ferdinand in 1492 burned or killed otherwise the Jews and Jewish culture (not long after the Moors) and expelled the rest if not coversos including sending hundreds of Jewish children to South Africa to work in the mines. The new world was conquered in the name of the Spanish and other countries, not for private industry. England’s wealth, their private corporations along with private families unregulated great wealth was gained directly from the slave trade. There would have been no workers for the tobacco, a cure for all ills, fields without it. Take care in comparisons.