Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 05:23 GMT
"Virgin Catholic..."
I think either I need to get a p2p client with better spam filters soon or else take this opportunity to sell something to a casino via eBay?
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 05:23 GMT
I dont know about you but I dont find 100k down the back of the sofa that often
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 05:23 GMT
...vs the dramatic "Orion" water landings to come for NASA. Thanks, LockMart; inspirational!
Congratulations, Mr. Branson. Get her/Keep them flying.
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 08:43 GMT
I think the price is cheap, compared to how much it has taken to get things off the ground.
How long at that rate before Paul Allen and Richard Branson recoup their investment?
Sure, Virgin gets some healthy PR from it, but still. It's a great legacy for both of them, though perhaps a greater one would have been fixing Africa.
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 08:43 GMT
It's still only a lousy suborbital uselessity.
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 08:43 GMT
I'd bite off my own legs to get onto one of those shuttles.
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 09:41 GMT
What I want to know is, who gets to fly them, how are they chosen, and how are they trained? I would be genuinely interested to see a documentary on that.
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 09:41 GMT
I wouldn't feel very confident flying into space in something with heart shaped windscreens.
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 10:09 GMT
at least somone is trying
@ too much
you obvoiulsy looking down the wrong sofa
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 10:09 GMT
.. on the ridiculous. I'll get me spacehelmet
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 10:19 GMT
34 Year old female. (Perfect Wife)
£100k
Excellent cook, Great in bed and really knows how to make her man feel special.
Makes an brilliant pack lunch for when you leave for work on those cold early mornings and often bakes a cake to add that little somthing else to your daily lunch.
Genuine reason for sale. Urgently require to raise funds for research into how great is must be for average joe to experiance space!
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 12:38 GMT
You have to start somewhere, in the commercial world you don't risk going for the big one straight away. This opens up an oppurtunity to far more people (even if they need thousands) and a potential revenue stream that will pay for Tier 2, which is believed to be an Orbital craft on Scaled Composites drawing boards. Which will be infinitely more expensive due to the re-entry problems they'll have to solve when moving at orbital speeds. Besides once sub-orbital is proved it'll bring more investment. So it's a start and they're getting somewhere!
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 12:50 GMT
If the history of aviation a century ago is anything to go by, we've got a decade or two to go before suborbital or SSTO flight becomes reasonably commonplace. Let's just hope that we don't get sidetracked and then pushed to innovate faster by a World War.
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 12:59 GMT
I don't have the £100000, so would you consider setting up a timeshare?
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 14:42 GMT
Be nice if it happens, Jeff. Trouble is that by 1908 most of the really tough questions had already been answered. Cayley had sussed the wing side, and Benz and co had sussed the engine side. All that needed doing was bolting the two together, which is why the Wright brothers were just one of many.
Problem right now is that the development of the basic components is still "rocket science". Maybe it wouldn't have been if NASA had done the sensible thing and used Apollo as the basis for their next-gen platform. Instead they went for the Space Shuttle to keep the air-force generals happy, and left all their working tech to rust. That's why NASA are now having to reinvent the Apollo wheel, because everything they've done in spaceflight for the last 25 years has been a pointless waste of time and only worked because of vast government spending.
On the plus side though, it's the reason there is private spaceflight (notably Ariane and other major lifters), because no government managed to make a decent job of it. And it's why SS2 and its successors are likely to clean up, because again they're driven by making it work in a cost-effective way. NASA couldn't recognise cost-effective if it beat them over the head with a foam mallet labelled "stick to your budgets"...
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 16:40 GMT
Propose taking space shuttle round trip to Mars,
144 days ! - 67,000,000 miles/hr !
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14705
Now that's Traveling !!!!
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 16:43 GMT
Propose taking space shuttle round trip to Mars,
144 days ! - 67,000,000 miles/hr !
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14705
Now that's Traveling !!!!
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 22:37 GMT
yes its 2008. hasnt it been long enough already since we got some kind of space travel. we are meant to be driving hovercars by 2010. good to see we made a step forward
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 22:37 GMT
That's the barrier to orbital flight, but the immense amount of fuel you need to launch even the lightest payload. There's a reason why a Saturn V's a big bastard.
Also, there is the related problem of achieving acceptable failure rates for passenger flight with that much energy around.
Posted Friday 25th January 2008 06:05 GMT
Does she know you've put her up for sale? If not I'd watch out for the powdered glass in those little cakes if I was you! ;-)
Posted Friday 25th January 2008 09:29 GMT
small flat
wife
trip to space
hum
taxi "take me to the space port. let me stop to get my coat"
Posted Sunday 27th January 2008 09:25 GMT
Well things will surely move on quicker once space has a commercial purpose, lets face it once any thing is commercialised it goes bonkers and more insane investment will happen...
25 years later we will be on Mars! Just who gets the first Virgin or Nasa
Posted Tuesday 29th January 2008 12:07 GMT
"Well things will surely move on quicker once space has a commercial purpose, lets face it once any thing is commercialised it goes bonkers and more insane investment will happen...
25 years later we will be on Mars! Just who gets the first Virgin or Nasa"
Hmmm prehaps i should start looking for Wife 2.0 to fund my trip to mars!
Ebay could make this process so much easier for me if they stopped removing my listings!
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