Watch a real life bond villain launch his penis shaped rocket on another pointless suborbital hop.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 13 Oct 2020, 14:28,
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Well the commentator isn't very good is she?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 13 Oct 2020, 14:41,
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All right coming up on max q. (1 minute of silence) All right coming out of max q. (2 minutes of silence) Beautiful.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 13 Oct 2020, 16:18,
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Still got a subterranean perigee then?
I don’t understand why this programme still exists. Even SLS will beat Blue Origin to orbit.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 13 Oct 2020, 15:29,
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For a supposed New Space company, they've taken the Boeing approach to space contracts. Get your nose in the trough, then keep extracting funding. I sometimes wonder if SpaceX were missing a trick by actually delivering something.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 13 Oct 2020, 15:46,
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Maybe Bezos bets on being able to deliver what the government wants to buy with as few bells and whistles as possible.
Then massively undercut Musk on price.
Or possibly get them to sign up to a subscription programme, 'all you need is to do is press this little button and we'll provide another launch'
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In fairness, I think if I were NASA I'd prefer Blue Moon over SpaceX's Lunar Starship, just because it's more ready and cheaper..
But if I were Professor Calculus I'd prefer Lunar Starship.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 13 Oct 2020, 16:24,
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It doesn't have a perigree because it doesn't orbit
It exists because people will pay good money for a trip into space, just for lulz - and it's likely to be relatively affordable.
OK, maybe 50 grand or more at first - but some will pay that, just to become one of the very few that have been to space. And the cost will fall rapidly, until it's not much different from doing a parachute jump.
I'm not trying to argue with you. Just, this is a very different thing - you're comparing apples and oranges, or comparing a Ford Fiesta to a Formula-1 car.
Yeah, all the delays are annoying - but that's pretty standard in space flight. At least they are making progess, that's the main thing. Barring a disaster, it'll take people within a year, I think.
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I think he understands what having a subterranean perigee means.
And I think that Bezos and Branson are stuck behind the curve. Going straight up to peek your head above the Kármán line before coming back to where you started is, as you say, like a parachute jump. It isn't very useful.
Starship and Skylon could actually take you places you want to go via spaaaaaaaace.
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brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Tue 13 Oct 2020, 17:10,
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It’s a four minute funfair ride.
And exceeding the Karman Line for under a minute of that really doesn’t feel like going to space to me.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 13 Oct 2020, 20:08,
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its bare bones, just technically going to space, but we want 2001: A Space Odyssey stuff, as promised as a kid
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Crossing the Karman Line when you choose to.
In both directions.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 14 Oct 2020, 8:49,
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To be fair, most Bond villains weren't that tetchy and insecure
There's a real touch of Partridge about him I reckon
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