Virgin Astronomic Brings out Rider Starships!!
This post deals mainly with:
- noobs
BY NOOBS-R-US AT 01/23/08 02:28 PM
Decease trap.
BY NOOBS-R-US AT 01/23/08 02:28 PM
They should call it an space casket.
BY PETEH AT 01/23/08 02:31 PM
USD 200K is a batch. Nowadays, get it < USD 100K, and you’ll get a sight more folk (admitting “normal” common people who will specifically salve for this).
BY NUTBASTARD AT 01/23/08 02:34 PM
“How, Woz? Recollect when you stated that if I of all time need anything… you didn’t? Huh. Uh, good, uh, howsaboutgivingmeliketwohundredgrandsoicangointospacethatscoolwithyourightok pass!”
BY XINT AT 01/23/08 02:35 PM
…I came up in here for the Astronomic Young woman.
kbye.
BY FUTAIHIKAGE AT 01/23/08 02:37 PM
Outstanding! We earlier we simply had got random states with space offices plugging holes in our ambiance and flipping rafts of befoulment in the aura in its wake. Nowadays we have commercial flights, that will belike non only end in catastrophe one or two multiplication, but will be ditching more defilement direct into the skies. Yay!
BY WHAT IT IS AT 01/23/08 02:42 PM
futaihikage: defilement? but this one runs on liquid shwartz!
(wow…I need to feed something)
BY THEESPACEPOPE AT 01/23/08 02:43 PM
Maked mortal frankly merely state “plugging holes in our ambiance?”
On the face of it our major planet is spread over by some form of material or foam and non gases.
BY NUTBASTARD AT 01/23/08 02:45 PM
“The rocket’s exhaust is besides a lot dark than established projectile propellant, bringing forth an intermixture of H2O vapor, carbon dioxide, hydrogen and some carbon monoxide. This makes SS1 very attractive, with increasing environmental cares all over the large-scale use of rider jet travel all over the past decenniums and the large amount of defilement brought forth by mammoth rocket locomotives such as Colossus and Saturn rockets traditionally put for access to space.”
BY Jason AT 01/23/08 02:47 PM
Virgin Astronomic + Bigelow Aerospace = the future!
BY NUTBASTARD AT 01/23/08 02:47 PM
theespacepope
There may be a retarding force effect that upsets some of the upper bed of the ambiance, admixture them up a spot, but AFAIK that’s as well cognized as “Weather” so yea… hole-plugging == bunk
BY Booze AT 01/23/08 02:48 PM
Language cannot express how cool I conceive this is. It’s one thing to understand construct draftsmanships, but to realize it really being reinforced driving forces home how existent it is. Wow!
I say the befoulment facet of it could be big and the treehugger in me should be against this, but I have to inquire how a great deal defilement one USD 200,000 space flight would bring forth equated to USD 200,000 worth of more traditional aura travel.
BY NUTBASTARD AT 01/23/08 02:49 PM
This is wherefore I can’t use up the wide-warming up-ists and enviro-German Nazis earnestly - they blow everything extinct of dimension and they then to spirt FUD.
Worldwide warming up? It but played false in Kriss Kringle Cruz, CA.
BY BROCK AT 01/23/08 02:56 PM
The Snowy Horse 2 looks like it could use up riders. That looks uneven, doesn’t it?
The cost ain’t coming up down a lot. That’s like a super-duper Edward Lear Jet, and market contest can’t convey the tags to a lower place the monetary value of fuel and the plane’s building. The only way to cut down the cost of the tag is to get a larger plane that deals more tickets (and spreads the cost extinct among more people). Until they have space-planes the size of the fresh Boeing Dreamliner, I anticipate tickets to rest North of USD 50K.
BY TALLDUDEFROMBRAZIL AT 01/23/08 02:57 PM
What is the item to go away Earth only to realise it through a Liquid crystal display screen??
These units (non Windows) are excessively damm little. IT MAKES NO SENSE.
Too. How safe is this shit? Because you cognize…we are really Departure the major planet. I don’t want to be mislaid in outerspace….big thing can pass off…
It will be a Concorde-like Business concern. It will run outstanding until the first batch of fat people dies.
BY ATRAHASIS AT 01/23/08 03:00 PM
Finally flights won’t be enough and they’ll have to come up up with something for people to really DO one time they get there. Mayhap they should lay an entertainment park on the Moon.
BY SIHANOUK-S-Poodle dog AT 01/23/08 03:04 PM
peteH: Afford it a few months. One time the conception is turned out practicable and some of the freshness wear’s off, the cost will come up down.
I wonder if they cancelled a one-way ticket? I cognize a few people I would purchase that for.
BY MAINLINX AT 01/23/08 03:06 PM
will it blend…..
….human race?
BY LUDWIGK AT 01/23/08 03:07 PM
USD 200,000 for an space flight is calmed down about two orders of order of magnitude inexpensive than the moving rate today. Like, that guy from nsync and the russian business organization gentlewoman both nonrecreational ~USD 20M to go in space, although they may have made more than hang up extinct in the the sky for a few hour.
Still, this will be outstanding for poring over the bears on of sexual practice in zero G, for those persons seeming to fall in the 20-mile high club.
BY MINI Device driver AT 01/23/08 03:14 PM
Having been at the SpaceShipOne launch, when Microphone got the first private spaceman, I’ll state the postdating:
1) It was way cool to understand account being got
2) It was a damn close trim - non what you’d call a textual matter book military operation, and sure non short on ‘danger’.
I’ll be holding off until they’ve ‘perfected’ the flyings, and the cost comes up down a spot!
BY Enophile AT 01/23/08 03:19 PM
I support it
Denationalization > “.”
BY CRASHINGOUT AT 01/23/08 03:23 PM
Hah having encountered Cyril Burt and having been scripted an of import missive/memorialisation for me on one of the 1000(100?) sheets they winged on the first commercial space launch, realizing progress is only enlivenning. I’m non certain how a great deal of this venture is financially owned by Scaly Complexs but I do non doubt they have passed a pretty cent of their own cash in hand for this stick out; they have sure enough piled up rather a plus pond all over their decennaries of catching on protrudes big and little. But yea, that letteris incased in carbonite and under 12 inches of EFP case low uranium nanotubular concrete set extinct in a geometrically impossible gridwork but industrial plant victimisation gravitation waves. So I’m into air power what affords. I besides have early material in stated vault but those are FAR to outlawed for me to detail. And non in a stupid coarse way
BY 92BUICKLESABRE AT 01/23/08 03:24 PM
nutbastard: I believe the larger job is that they (okay, we) oft can’t halt to say the information. and be informed first. (Realise above comments for representatives.)
But you do cognise the snowfall in Father Christmas Cruz part is arguably an effect of planetary warming up right? Worldwide warming up leads to heater average temperatures all over time and more drastic weather in the middle. At least that’s what the scientists state.
But then once again, I’m a worldwide-warmining-ist, so I haven’t really say all of it.
BY GUITARMUNKEY05 AT 01/23/08 03:31 PM
I’m setting about my nest egg for a slip as of right nowadays.
This would be awful, and to conceive you’d NEVER be one-upped over again…
“So Bob, where’d you go for vacation this twelvemonth?”
“Oh, i locomoted to Sunshine State to understand Infinite Mount. What about you?”
“Yea… I really travelled to Infinite”
…or possibly…
“I purchased a 68″ blood plasma screen today”
“Yea, good i moved on a plane sit to Infinite!!!”
BY Atomic Energy Commission007 AT 01/23/08 03:33 PM
nutbastard
I get word you…
(Waaaaay of subject but:)
Last dark I say this month’s Scientific American on Ice dissolutions…
Greenland’s coast is shrivelling (wide warming up), but snow it’s edifice up on it’s mounts (huh?)
Occident Antartica is running and we but misplaced Larsen-B the big water ice sheet to ocean, (wide warming up), but Due east Antartica’s ice maintains on stilt up, (huh?)
But… but, representative, I want to examine planetal cyclic weather patterns!…
I don’t care.
It’s for “Wide Warmed up” !
Wherefore didn’t you stated so?!!! Here’s your grant!
Back to theme…
I bet World Warming up looks pretty from up there in space.
BY CARDINAL Fang AT 01/23/08 03:34 PM
Q: What do you call 8 beat millionaires in celestial orbit?
A: A full outset.
BY LOGANSIX AT 01/23/08 03:39 PM
I bet there are plenty of flakes on here that would want to be the first in the novel Land mile High Club. But, I’m dead reckoning you would have to give a raft for that Joseph Hooker to go up there with you.
BY HANSPECANS AT 01/23/08 03:46 PM
nutbastard:
along with wide warming up comes up clime change.
BY SHAGEDY AT 01/23/08 03:50 PM
This is a grinder-orbital space vehicle, intending you are non getting away the gravitative pulling of the Earth. The only reason you can reckon this going away the major planet, is in the fact that you are going the earth’s ambiance. Hence, any concerns of being “misplaced in space” are non an issue. The peril is of firing up during reentry, or unloosenning control during the raise or origin. No affair what your coming up back down, the enquiry is in how plenty of pieces or how good through with your croupe is, by the clip you get to the anchorred.
The feeling of positioning an entertainment park on the Moon at this point is pathetic. The orbit of SS2 is a full 238,795 stat mis short of fashioning there. Plus equitation an apace speeding rocket to a tallness of 62 international miles and then falling back into the ambience in zero-g for a few proceedings, should far extinct boot anything Six Flags has to proffer.
If i had got a disposable 200 grand I’d do it!
BY GBIRRUETA AT 01/23/08 03:50 PM
This has nothing but big new’s scripted all all over it!
BY NUTBASTARD AT 01/23/08 03:52 PM
yea i saw some shlock on tv the former twenty where they likenned the northern ice detonating device from Wintertime 2000 to SUMMER 2007 and shouting out - oh! it’s shrivelled by HALF! cutting that it melts down and reforms every friggin twelvemonth.
Im non refusing world warming up is moving on, Im refusing we have anything to do with it. Hey, just what pct of planetary warming up gasses are human in any event…
0.28% if you don’t count water vapour, the #1 greenhouse gas, and 5.53% is you let in all the steamer we get.
NOTE: Mars, Quicksilver, Venus - ALL the major planets are acquiring heater, as the Sun is burning down raging.
BY NUTBASTARD AT 01/23/08 03:54 PM
bad for the muddiness people, i should have expressed, “manmade-world-warming up-ists”.
and the snowfall thing was called to be an anecdotic collocation - if the conservationists can set extinct one lame fact to plunk for their place so can I!
BY TALLMANNY AT 01/23/08 03:56 PM
It hoodwinked in Saint Nick Cruz? Adult male, we here in Fresh House of York have essentially disregarded what snow looks like. Haven’t had got to interrupt extinct the wintertime boots hitherto this season either. Perchance it is but a round or mayhap it isn’t, but you can’t tell that the weather doesn’t look unlike than it was 20 months ago.
USD 200k is wished nothing for an space trip. It is a week’s interest on the amount of moneys that former people have given. I wonder how tenacious you are in zero g and how a good deal of a position of the Earth you will have. Maked the former slips go high? Are they moving to have a congical activeness room on the plane? If they don’t have that, I suspect there will be some defeated millionairs.
BY NUTBASTARD AT 01/23/08 03:57 PM
Expression adult male is responsible for for world warming up is wished push a machine downhill and arrogating to be propellent it all by yourself, no affair how small your share to the motorcars speed is.
But LOOK! its locomoting DOWNHILL Quicker THE MORE I PUSH IT!
BY TANGLEDWEB16 AT 01/23/08 03:58 PM
For all you people saying “how safe is this?”…I don’t genuinely afford a shite how safe it is.
If I cognised, 100% that I would never come up back I would still do this, is person gave for me manifestly. If I’m gonna die (and we all are) I can’t believe of a better way than blowing away through space. I’m all in grave.
BY Carouse AT 01/23/08 04:00 PM
Re: …The Sun is burning down raging…
And Leon’s acquiring laaaarger!
Regretful, first thing that came up to my mind.
(Must have been that Plane! picture show from the Southwest air hoses article)
BY NUTBASTARD AT 01/23/08 04:03 PM
yea fellow i horde through it today on my way to do work. it sed eyes in Nick Cruz in 1989 on lying with x-moms forenoon, when i was like 5 months older, and had got never understood snow fall earlier. most magic four hour period of my living.
*OW* what the fu-
uh, demur the four hours i uh, came across YOU, honey!
*winces*
BY NUTBASTARD AT 01/23/08 04:05 PM
Booze
i have to acknowledge that locomoted right all over my head.
BY YEEBLES AT 01/23/08 04:06 PM
We’re Whaling ships of the Moon, We’re whaling ships of the Moon…
BY PAZUZU AT 01/23/08 04:15 PM
Meh, 200k is genuinely truly steep. Manifestly its intended for fat people but even if I were fertile I would still hold back until this thing could really occupy you somewhere. Like a big rear end space promenade or some other major planet.
BY Y2KGTP AT 01/23/08 04:26 PM
Will it have Virgin Stewardess’s on board? Is there such a thing?
BY Burgundy CORNINGSTONE AT 01/23/08 04:31 PM
Pazuzu
Big Nates Infinite Promenade. I concur.
After I blast extinct of the earth’s gravitative pulling, I’m moving to desire to halt at a Chili’s for some Babe Back Ribs or something.
BY UTUBE2007 AT 01/23/08 04:35 PM
It looks decent who of all time intentional it should be doing work at National Aeronautics and Space Administration how about the next space shuttle seeming like that.
BY MONTY AT 01/23/08 04:47 PM
Locution adult male is responsible for for worldwide warming up is wished push a machine downhill …
Are you in the automobile that I am push down the mound? And what is at the bottom of the mound? I like the way this conversation is travelling …
BY Atomic Energy Commission007 AT 01/23/08 04:47 PM
utube2007
Huh… Rutan… Cyril Burt Rutan… doesn’t ring a doorbell?
He’s like… the most maverick aeroplane interior decorator in the one C.
Trip about the macrocosm without fueling… Varizze, Quicky… still no doorbell ring?
WOW….
BY NUTBASTARD AT 01/23/08 04:53 PM
Monty
No, I’m non in the auto, im observation from the face, and you’re push the auto that is a metaphor for the Earth, down a mound on not-metaphoric-earth, but definately theres some confect parallel bars in the mitt box and it’s a 1979 President Abraham Lincoln Continental with annihilation room access, and fuzzed die. Is the doctrine of analogy clear nowadays?
BY NUTBASTARD AT 01/23/08 04:57 PM
utube2007
you can’t get a birdie look like anything former than it already makes, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration declines to know that the shuttlecock design is more ineffective, unsafe and expensive than it need be. So he’d be fashioning til now some other shuttlecock alternatively of progrssing the whole manufacture if he were cooped up at NASA.
No, it’s a very selfsame full thing this is being through independantly.
BY Surfboarder88 AT 01/23/08 04:57 PM
TallDudeFromBrazil: Oh adult male, I was considerring the exact like thing after I say the newspaper headline to this post. In space, you can have some shite go down and dropping back towards the major planet isn’t a gaurantee any longer. You start to jetison into space and you’re pretty lots ef’ed. From there it but gets a (as noobs-r-us so articulately position it) space casket. In a complete fit of terror all the honey roast nutty are went through fashioning for an endurance of the set scenario, where the potent sailor/adult female instates Martian Jurisprudence and gets down to feed the gang one by one, finally toxic condition whatsoever atmosphere clay in the cabin from faecal thing and breaking down stiffs. Non the way I want to go extinct.
Thanks Virgin, but I’ll hold my space travel fantasies to my vision and or else pass .25 per centum of the request ticket price on a decent Definition television so I can follow the repulsions this venture is certain to bring forth on the even intelligence - safe and sound on full ol’ terra firma.
BY MALOEH AT 01/23/08 05:04 PM
nutbastard: Hey! How’d you get my automobile and wherefore are you push it down a mound?!?
BY GLASSONION718 AT 01/23/08 05:05 PM
Doesn’t it look weird that it is being reinforced by a cluster of hombres in blue jeans and sweat shirts? It looks like the are mod-ing a VW garde! Look at the pipped of them raising the part of the fuselage in place. Kind of cues me of the Orangeness County Chop garage.
BY IDEAMAN2020 AT 01/23/08 05:37 PM
I’ve told it earlier and I’ll state it once more…
USD 200,000 is waaaay excessively lots for sub-orbital.
Either drop the cost by an ingredient of 1000 or afford me a hebdomad in some microgravity positioning.
BY YOUGOTTABEKIDDING AT 01/23/08 05:46 PM
I clap the try, and the desire to get space travel possible for the ordinary adult male…finally…but unluckily, this will in all probability end in the like way that the Concorde made, demur the tags for a Concorde flight were far, far less. If it plant, it will merely be a milepost for Branson, nothing more. National Aeronautics and Space Administration hasn’t even set an adult male back on the Moon since 1972. The only way I could understand this of all time comely a routine thing would be for ’science’ to find an inexpensive, safe, and effective way to impel and powerfulness starships into celestial orbit, if such an thing could live. Otherwise, only the uber productive, with uber importances whose conception of ‘making a living’ is today so malformed by their wealthiness, will of all time wing on this thing. I’d choose having them give me USD 200,000 to strike hard them extinct dusty, transport their unconcious physical structure to wheresoever they cherished to go, and then resuscitate them. Certain, it won’t technically get them there any quicker, but from their point of perspective when they wake up, the slip will appear instant!
BY BRANSONSLOVECHILD AT 01/23/08 06:07 PM
Erhh..”sub-space” flights, occupy that to intend it don’t genuinely go into “existent” Infinite then…..200k? Meh.
BY NOXDESIGN AT 01/23/08 06:26 PM
What, nonentity wants to go into space any longer? What kind of swots are you guys! Hellhole, sign me up!!!!
BY IDEADMAN AT 01/23/08 06:37 PM
Maked his experience in Demigod Returns learnt him nothing??
BY VIRGILICIOUS AT 01/23/08 06:45 PM
I don’t even like winging, and I would do this (in 5 months, when they’ve done work the ricks extinct, and someone’s afforded me a free ticket).
BY NUTBASTARD AT 01/23/08 07:07 PM
noxdesign
it’s sub-orbital. that’s non space.
BY ALEXMG2420 AT 01/23/08 07:13 PM
Really, the USD 200,000 price is only for THE FIRST 100 Clients! After that, it’ll cost USD 175,000-150,000 for the next 400. Then USD 20,000 for everyone after that.
BY VAGABUM AT 01/23/08 07:44 PM
It’s all playfulness and plot until they encounter knave Martian with direction books coroneted “To Function Human race.”
BY NUTBASTARD AT 01/23/08 07:49 PM
alexmg2420
uh oh… they better wait more than 36 hours earlier they drop the monetary value, former the iPhone moaners will demand a discount…
BY MINI Device driver AT 01/23/08 08:01 PM
Uh, yes it is!
‘Michael Winston “Microphone” Melvill (birthed Nov 1940) is one of the trial pilots for SpaceShipOne, the observational spaceplane highly by Scaley Complexs. Melvill aviated SpaceShipOne on its first flight past the border of space, flight 15P on June 21, 2004, thus comely the first commercial spaceman and the 433rd mortal to go into space.’
The commercial flights are the like trade.
BY STRIDER_MT2K AT 01/23/08 09:23 PM
Jason: Damn consecutive!
Go Virgin and go RUTAN!!!
BY Atomic Energy Commission007 AT 01/23/08 11:36 PM
nutbastard
One slight midget small inadvertence…
This Virgin Astronomical thingy locomotes consecutive up (largely) and when it runs extinct of fuel or moves all over 100 Km (internationaly accepted space bounds) it simply waterfall down in a commanded glide like a stone.
Even if it’s a technical accomplishment for a private endeavour, it still waterfall VERY, VERY short of the space shuttle.
The space shuttle travels into Celestial orbit at 15,000+ Miles per hour at an height of 180 to 250 Km. With environmental control conditions to keep a gang of 5 ~ 7 people for 1~2 hebdomads.
For that affair, with an extra boost and fuel you can direct it orbing about the Moon and safely back.
On re-debut it slams, literally, SLAMS the ambience and hits 25 G’s on impact deceleration down spell seemly a decent radiating meteorite patch it’s still a confy 70F inside.
Do you conceive that this VG Starship 2 equals a bird?
Certain the shuttlecock is very complex, wild and expensive simple machine to run… but there’s no equal.
I wish NASA could get 2~3 % Gross national product for budget… then you would realize what they could do… When you have money to burn down, it’s easy to assay novel designings and hypothesis, when you are on a budget, you go for what it’s well and dead on target.
BY X23 AT 01/24/08 12:41 AM
nutbastard: good… for the most part “planetary warming up” is a political condition. encouraged by pols. and by assorted people so they can tell cagy Paul Harvey-esque thing like “today it led by the nose in [some topographic point that looks unhinged with snow]!!! world warming up? goooood solar day!”.
most existent existent-living not-lobby-payrolled scientists are more interested about the conception of “worldwide clime change”. with it comes up variable grades of on the face of it unnatural alteration to the clime. some may be raging… some may be eaten. wherefore is it occurrent? that is what they are poring over. and non lots of are really that interested with who to fault. as that is more a political thing as good.
BY MINDTRIGGER AT 01/24/08 11:06 AM
What a cluster of slits remarking. You chickens agnize that it’s travelling to occupy private society to really move human space flight forward, dont you? National Aeronautics and Space Administration certain as hellhole is travelling to do it.
I in person would like to give thanks Branson and Scaley Complexs for having the musket balls to force this protrude forward. If we went away it up to most of you pantywaists, world would still be travelling the world on foot, carting our knucks.
BY SQUEAKDOGG AT 01/24/08 12:06 PM
I have an outstanding thought for a “space plane” place Flat Panel HD Liquid crystal display Videos in place of the distinctive Windows. Charge people USD 100,000 for tickets. Wing them about in a vast set for a twosome of 60 minutes. During the entire flight show them a picture of travelling into space. Toss in some space uniforms and helmets for genuineness. I’m certain ILM or Pixar could position unitedly that motion picture for inexpensive.
Regular plane + HD LCD Videos + HD Film = Money in the banking concern.
BY NUTBASTARD AT 01/24/08 12:07 PM
Locution theres no equal to the bird is wished saying theres no better paries than the outstanding paries of mainland China: look at it, its Immense!
but the job with that is piece it is a very full paries, it’s non the best paries we could make with current engineering, and it’d be silly to construct Some other China-style paries Nowadays merely because that design functioned it’s purpose good enough for so retentive.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration has enough money to do novel thing, but they don’t because National Aeronautics and Space Administration is being run with all the efficiency of a Regime Government agency. They have no inducement to change state a prophit, that way thay but maintain making the like tiring crap all over and all over once more and then they wonder wherefore people are less concerned than of all time in safekeeping the birdies travelling.
The item is we shouldn’t have to drop down tax one dollar bills into an endeavour that doesn’t have any foreseeable income tax returns (minus toned grav R&D) when chronicle has exhibited that all such endeavours neglect in the terminal, and it’s only free market nonsuchs that prevail, becuase they dont reckon to a great extent on bearuacracies. Private trading operations have no job with bringing down the fat off when thing get crufty. *crats merely want to perpetuate their careers, and bearuacracies (sp? i cognize) enable them to laze and do simply that above all else.
BY CAKE_Feeder AT 01/24/08 03:11 PM
I genuinely hate how people are moving on World Warming up rants here. I don’t full realize what’s locomoting on, you don’t to the full see what’s travelling on, and most professional scientists don’t to the full realize what’s moving on and/or will non stake their repute on pick a face only up to now because there is tranquilized a high level of precariousness.[/rant]
On theme: Coolheaded thought of all time, I would by all odds salve up and wait for prices to get under 100k (that they will, simply an affair of clip; I’m sporting 20-25 months and there’ll be priced slips to moo-level Earth-celestial orbit.)
P.S. I can’t consider there are really people here upset about being jettisoned into space from this thing…
BY NOTCYNICALANYMORE AT 01/27/08 09:55 PM
If I were Sir Richard, I would afford Donald Trump a drive on the trial run flight
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