Current Events > Virgin Galactic Space Launch

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virgingalactic.com

6 minutes to the start of space tourism...or not

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Space tourism

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Here's another link. This bitch is about to take off over my head this morning.

https://www.space.com/virgin-galactic-richard-branson-spaceflight-webcast

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Neil Tyson is on CNN giving a clinic on space travel.

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History in the making

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Better not crash in my back yard. I'll be upset.

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Zero Gravity <3

This Is News

Richard Branson crashing would really kill my 5 shares that I am holding in SPCE

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This is pretty mundane. This flight has been done been Virgin Galactic before and it'll never be viable for point-to-point transportation like Starship. It's just a tourist attraction. We did this 60 years ago.

Bezos' Blue Origin launch will be a space elevator on rockets.

It's not even real suborbital altitudes for either craft. No real research is happening with gene expression on a flight like this.

We need a real space plane like Dream Chaser, launching next year.

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Space Hotel

Somebody wake the OG up its time to fly

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The final frontier ~

It's showing Colbert clips WTF

vs the Chad Universal Space Launch

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viewmaster_pi posted...

vs the Chad Universal Space Launch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuaDWyCnJxs

Also looks like parasols are back in style as the west bakes

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Total let down. they show the son of a bitch taking off and then cut to dip shit interviews. There's cameras on this thing keep it on it!

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Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Total let down. they show the son of a bitch taking off and then cut to dip shit interviews. There's cameras on this thing keep it on it!

The whole thing is a fluff piece on how awesome Branson is

Johnny_Nutcase posted...

Total let down. they show the son of a bitch taking off and then cut to dip shit interviews. There's cameras on this thing keep it on it!

What? They took off from a different location than where they're actually launching. They're actually launching now.

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I guess some of that money should have gone to the sound and video department.

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__aCEr__ posted...

I guess some of that money should have gone to the sound and video department.

I'm wondering how much they'd be able to improve the transmission of that since it's being transmitted such a long distance over the air.

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Damn I felt the sonic boom when it came back down.

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Thats cool

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It would be cool if they made a space colony like in Policenauts.

probably not in our lifetimes though

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Will see a Mars mission within the next 15 years

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Not even space
https://twitter.com/ajenglish/status/1414256516929097729

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From the pic it is still outside the planet. Must be incredibly cool.

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These elites are most likely colonizing as we speak, with the US government putting forward most of the money.

We have this new Space Force, which we dont seem to really need. The Iraq War is estimated to have cost about $2T, yet we have been fighting for 20 years and the military receives at least $2T/year. Not to mention the government keeps flirting with disclosure on extraterrestrials.

Then cap it all off with the fact that we have done irreparable damage to the planet. How much money has been spent on climate change and what have they even done? Its all funding to colonize Mars or the Moon and the elites will leave us behind here.

imagine being so fucking rich beyond your imagination and one day, you just think to yourself "fuck it, i'mma go to space!".

not fronting tho, i would have probably done the same if i had the chance... lol

Or shoot a car into outer space just cause you can

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I'm just wondering how it can be sustainable. $250,000 per person. The average man makes like what? $30,000?

Once you burn through the elite who else are you going to sell this expensive trip to?

The idea is to lead into faster means of travel around the globe. Go really high and land on other side of the world in 2 hours

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burns112233 posted...

I'm just wondering how it can be sustainable. $250,000 per person. The average man makes like what? $30,000?

Once you burn through the elite who else are you going to sell this expensive trip to?

I think one of their goals is to make it much more affordable over time. Not sure how they're going to accomplish that, but... we'll see.

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