SpaceShipOne
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- abizzyman
I'm surprised there's no thread on this yet... I saw a few news story links in the PBS.
I'd say it's a rather historic day. We've seen some amazing stuff in our own lifetimes - things that were considered comic book in scope - and today (yesterday now) was just another comic book fantasy come true.
Pretty cool.
- rasko40
'SpaceShipOne' - they should win a prize for the most unimaginative name possibly, and another for successfully basing a craft on Thunderbirds.
- abizzyman0
so name and design (talking about how it looks - not the fact that it's designed to go into outerspace or anything BRILLIANT like that) of the first privately manned space craft takes presedence over the fact that people took it upon themselves outside of government / military funding and put themselves in outerspace.
astonished.
- rasko40
Thats exactly right, see, if they had called it CockVomit™ and painted it pink and purple then I would have been impressed.
Yeah ok its very exciting, although to be fair the technology isn't exactly groundbreaking, we have been in space for some time, cant expect people to jump up and down because someone slightly broke the atmosphere.
I look forward to there being more private sector involvement though, it's about time!
- ribit0
The swivelling wing thing is impressive... strange thing is a lot of the structure looks like commuter-turboprop/Cessna sort of technology...
- abizzyman0
That's what's groundbreaking about this whole thing though, rasko - it IS private.
20 years from now I'll still be younger than my father... and yet it looks like I could easily be going in and out of outerspace.
I also thought it was pretty cool that they piggy-backed this little machine on an airplane. Nasa still straps their shit on the back of two massive dildo's and one thick-ass butt-plug.
CockVomit™ - I'm sold, rasko. :)
- loudubs0
"...and yet it looks like I could easily be going in and out of outerspace."
in and out, precisely.
we should stop anally raping the universe and maybe we can advance civilization a few steps
- waynepixel0
amazing achievement.
- TransFatty0
i predict
swingers paying for
a SpaceShipOne experience
- unfittoprint0
4 seats right?
- blaw0
impressive.
thanks for the links, stewart and thosethat.
- Kuz0
i predict
swingers paying for
a SpaceShipOne experience
TransFatty
(jun 22 04, 06:00)
----------------------haha, yeah, zero gravity fucking.... put me down for one of those!
- mg330
"Nasa still straps their shit on the back of two massive dildo's and one thick-ass butt-plug."
I, I don't know what to say...
- tymeframe0
did anyone see the footage from inside the jet. when the pilot left the earth's gravity, he opened a pack of skittles and let em fly around.
super cool.