Space Politics has a blog post about the UK's moves towards manned spaceflight with links to my articles on flightglobal.com and some interesting comment
Meanwhile Nevada based-Bigelow Aerospace is promoting its space based bingo game. Its leaders may not know this but bingo is a popular game amongst the UK's older members of its working class. But don't let European class differences stop you from indulging in some fun!
Sadly for New Mexico legislators there is no money to be won by Bigelow's bingo game as the southern US state finds itself hindered in collecting taxes by its own rules. As a Briton I will decline to comment on tax collection in North America...
on October 17, 2007 4:10 PM | Reply
That Bingo story is pretty amazing, but I have to pull you up on your stereotyping of the average European bingo player. The idea of it being a game for the older generation / working class background is fast changing. Now, around 50% of new bingo players at one of the UK's leading clubs chains are aged between 20 and 45.
Online, the majority of bingo players are in that younger bracket as well as being more mixed in the class background. A number of innovations in the game like electronic halls and the like are doing much to shed the game of the image you mention. However, I know in the USA that demographic is still pretty spot on.
Also, the Bigelow Aerospace project is using the the 75 ball American version of the game - the version they have isn't the one popular in Europe where it's all about the 90 ball game with out the letters (I bet that would have been easier for the engineers though!)