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Here come the horde of killjoys!
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I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891 -
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I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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A Youtube of the launch webcast.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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to SpaceX
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This video has ROBOTS and TEXANs talking.Originally posted by DanS
A Youtube of the launch webcast.
You provided no warning!"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "Comment
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So what's next?Comment
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Commercial satellite launches, a much bigger rocket, cargo flights to the International Space Station, and human flights to the International Space Station.
The owner's ultimate interest is in human spaceflight to Mars, but there are quite a few intermediate steps.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Actually I discovered that an old university friend of mine is working for this company making the private rockets...I hope his rockets are doing better than the house we all used to live in is Nice to see that he didn't manage to f**k this one up and lose Scotty's ashes this time
Speaking of Erith:
"It's not twinned with anywhere, but it does have a suicide pact with Dagenham" - Linda SmithComment
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Thats an incredibly impressive result for a private venture, remember every government rocket program went through crap loads of failed rockets when they were at this equivalent stage of development. Heck look at the Arian 5 rockets they suffered humiliating setbacks and were government run. Besides everyone buys insurance on the cargo.Sorry, but I serious doubt many companies will entrust their horrifically expensive satelites to a private company that has only shown it can get 25% of its rockets into space. They are going to have to do a lot more testing and build up a serious success record.
I wish them luck
Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators, the creator seeks - those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest. - Thus spoke Zarathustra, Fredrick NietzscheComment
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I'm sure they will build up more of a track record before they become "trusted," but if they're cheap somebody will take a chance on them. If they blow that chance, they could be screwed. But if they come through... why not?
-Arriangrog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!
The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.Comment
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w00t! Won't be long now before the Vulcans visit.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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Private orbital space flight.... nice
But this makes it seem that the future of the solar system shall will be megacorporations fighting for resources not the benevolent United Federation of Planets as seen in Star Trek.
I just wish we could militarize space and allow nations to claim territory in space, that is the only thing that would get effective government funded space programs.Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road “change.”
The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense.
The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man. -Nicolás Gómez DávilaComment
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