# Too Bad..Lance ain't gonna make it. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 3, 2002, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-lance-aint-gonna-make-it/126785 "2002-09-03T11:25:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-lance-aint-gonna-make-it/126785/1 "2002-09-03T11:25:20Z")
[There is a God](http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/09/03/space.lance.reut/index.html) I don’t think I could have stood his singing on the evening news. ---
**Author:** ![wayward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a87d85/32.png) [@wayward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wayward)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-lance-aint-gonna-make-it/126785/2 "2002-09-03T11:44:28Z")
The quote under the photo made me laugh: ‘Singer Lance Bass is being replaced by a cargo box for the next trip to the International Space Station’ 😃 I actually think it’s a shame. I’m no fan of N’Sync but I think it would have been a big step towards ‘Space Tourism’ for real people. Oh well. ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-lance-aint-gonna-make-it/126785/3 "2002-09-03T14:13:04Z")
‘Singer Lance Bass is being replaced by a cargo box for the next trip to the International Space Station’ Well the net intelligence and personality just went up. I have to say this is just desserts. If the guy was gonna pay for his own trip I would have been all for it. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-lance-aint-gonna-make-it/126785/4 "2002-09-03T15:42:27Z")
Damn! I was hoping they’d leave him up there. ---
**Author:** ![Gundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Gundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gundy)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-lance-aint-gonna-make-it/126785/5 "2002-09-03T15:54:43Z")
I’m disappointed. Can anyone think of a more effective way to interest 12-year-old girls in space travel and astronomy? I can’t. I think a big opportunity was lost here. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-lance-aint-gonna-make-it/126785/6 "2002-09-03T15:57:58Z")
“Bass, 23, who would have become the youngest ever person in space…” Now, off topic a bit, but is this correct grammer, because it sure reads funny to me. Anyway, in some sense, it is kinda sad because they’ve built up such a huge deal about it, and now he won’t go. And with him being gone, it’s prompted some of the other N’Sync guys to go into solo carreers as well, which unfortunately mean that when the band itself goes away (pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease), the individuals will still be around making their own crappy music. But now he’s not going, the band will stay together, and we’ll still have to put up with stupid fucking single work. God Damnit, is there no Justice in this world? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@El\_Elvis\_Rojo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Elvis_Rojo)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-lance-aint-gonna-make-it/126785/7 "2002-09-03T16:04:55Z")
And what’s with that stupid fucking pose in the photo? ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-lance-aint-gonna-make-it/126785/8 "2002-09-03T17:12:29Z")
Did the Russians say Bye, Bye, Bye, to Lance, or simply Gone. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-lance-aint-gonna-make-it/126785/9 "2002-09-03T17:17:30Z")
No monolith contact for you Lance! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-lance-aint-gonna-make-it/126785/10 "2002-09-03T17:41:32Z")
As glad as I am that precious space resources will not be wasted on the guy, I have to admit a big pang of sympathy for him. I can imagine how I’d feel if I thought I was going, and it got pulled out from under me. ---
**Author:** ![DrewG27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DrewG27](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrewG27)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-lance-aint-gonna-make-it/126785/11 "2002-09-03T18:00:52Z")
> [@](#): > > I actually think it’s a shame. I’m no fan of N’Sync but I think it would have been a big step towards ‘Space Tourism’ for real people. Oh well. Eeeh, the reason he got booted was beacuse he couldn’t come up with the twenty million dollars, doesn’t look that accessible from where I’m standing. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/too-bad-lance-aint-gonna-make-it/126785/12 "2002-09-03T21:40:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scylla \* > \*\*Damn! I was hoping they’d leave him up there. \*\* You’re a naughty, naughty boy, **Scylla.**