Space - the final frontier

[SummerMorning]

Or at least 100 kilometres.

This thread salutes the people who are taking shreads of our biomass beyond the Earth.

And in particular that little ship, from about 3 hours ago.

A for the space-faring primates!

 

[rgraham666]

Great! Maybe I will get to walk on the moon after all.

That will be so cool.

 

[Guest]

I so hope they do it.

The thing that made me smile about this is that, if they manage two successful flights into space inside of two weeks, they win $5 million. Cool, right?

Yeah, but, it's cost them $20 million to build the little ship.

Lou

 

[amicus]

The Co-founder of Microsoft made a huge contribution, how wonderful it would be to have a chance to see the curvature of the earth for real!

amicus

 

[Clare Quilty]

Or at least 100 kilometres.

This thread salutes the people who are taking shreads of our biomass beyond the Earth.

And in particular that little ship, from about 3 hours ago.

A for the space-faring primates!

I have mixed feelings about this space faring milestone. On the one hand, it is a triumph for all talking-monkey-kind and represents a decrease by an order of magnitude in the expense of getting to orbit—much less putting a human in orbit. One can hardly help but to extrapolate that when we are all dead—or wishing we were dead—there will be routine transcontinental orbital commercial flights. On the other hand, this heralds the privatization of space, complete with blantant product placement by M&M Mars. It is just a matter of time until some deregulated American Zaibatsu “owns” a planet. Remember “The Company” of Ridley Scott's seminal 1979 sci-fi classic, “Alien?” This is the back-story.

 

[Rusty914]

Still off Pr0n?

Or at least 100 kilometres.

This thread salutes the people who are taking shreads of our biomass beyond the Earth.

And in particular that little ship, from about 3 hours ago.

A for the space-faring primates!

 

[Guest]

The Co-founder of Microsoft made a huge contribution, how wonderful it would be to have a chance to see the curvature of the earth for real!

amicus

Almost makes all the money we've spent on buggy software somehow worth it.

While I'd love to see the curvature of the earth, the curvature of a woman's hip, or her breast, is awe inspiring unto itself.

The X-Prize is $10 Million, and Ruttan & Allen have budgeted $20 Million for this project. They are not in it for the prize money. That's not to say they don't expect major $$$ from licensing their technology.

To put it into persepective, only three countries have launched a man into space.

And now, one private company.

This is so cool.

 

[SummerMorning]

Re: Re: Space - the final frontier

Still off Pr0n?

Bugger...grumble...almost. Sundays don't count.