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This is a normal post “milestone in human development”?
Pfft. Nice trolling.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:01, Reply)
This is a normal post You don't think that progressing
space technology to the point where space tourism by a private company is now an actual thing is a milestone?
 (eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:11, Reply)
This is a normal post No.
This doesn’t progress humanity one jot.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:42, Reply)
This is a normal post Humanity
or human development?
 (eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 11:44, Reply)
This is a normal post What’s the human development part of this?
Reusable rockets? SpaceX got there years ago with Falcon 9. An orbital class launcher.
Reusable capsules? SpaceX got there last year with Crew Dragon. An orbital class capsule.
Space tourism for the super rich? Dennis Tito would like a word.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 12:28, Reply)
This is a normal post One guy hitching a ride on government rockets
might be technically space tourism, but it isn't exactly a budding space tourism industry.

Falcon 9 is not completely reusable.

Everything we make is human development, you do realise? Your house... the leisure centre down the road. How is this ever not human development?
 (eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 12:41, Reply)
This is a normal post Yes, but how many of the things we build actually count as milestones?

(I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 13:07, Reply)
This is a normal post Are we including or excluding actual milestones?

(I helped save b3ta! brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 15:10, Reply)
This is a normal post 1st commercially reusable tourism rocket
is not an unreasonable milestone.

I mean, it definitely took much more effort to do that, than paving 1 mile of road.
 (eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 16:31, Reply)
This is a normal post
*2nd
 (I helped save b3ta! evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 16:44, Reply)
This is a normal post Like I said...
that other one is not entirely reusable. Some parts of it need to be rebuilt between flights.
 (eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 16:48, Reply)
This is a normal post Virgin Galactic?
Not sure which bit of that system needs rebuilding between flights, but I doubt that Blue Origin would just restack and refuel without performing extensive maintenance checks.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 16:55, Reply)
This is a normal post Virgin Galactic
uses sub orbital space planes, with rocket engines, but they're not rockets, and it's debatable if they actually even go into space.
 (eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 16:56, Reply)
This is a normal post OK, so the Space Shuttle wasn't a rocket. Got it.
I don't understand why you're so wedded to the need to describe this pointless irrelevance as a milestone, while simultaneously so determined to ignore the other pointless irrelevance that successfully beat it to an arbitrary definition of space. It's like trying to argue that Charlton Athletic are the best football club in London because Leyton Orient only play in the second division.

Have you got tickets or something?
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 19:24, Reply)
This is a normal post The space shuttle wasn't a rocket.
It was also a space plane, which used a pair of independent rocket boosters to get it close enough to space for it to fly independently.

I didn't say the other things weren't milestones or even suggest that. I pointed out how they were different, and so were not THIS milestone.
 (eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 20:03, Reply)
This is a normal post hey, we get it
you've got a boner for bezos
 (I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 5:05, Reply)
This is a normal post I'm surprised at you.
You don't usually surrender with this few moves. Even benny lasted longer than you.
 (eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Thu 22 Jul 2021, 16:46, Reply)
This is a normal post it's ok to have a man crush
you don't need to justify it
 (I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 Jul 2021, 6:43, Reply)
This is a normal post And they need to replace the engine each flight, I think.

(I helped save b3ta! brb man-child cuck corporate supplicant fuck, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 19:26, Reply)
This is a normal post I know they use a solid propellant,
so I guess they'd have to have some kind of replacement cartridge at the very least. As stated above though, I'd expect them to have to go through an exhaustive series of maintenance checks between each flight anyway, so I don't see that as much of a handicap.
 (I helped save b3ta! wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 19:39, Reply)
This is a normal post You clearly haven't seen my house.

(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 15:13, Reply)
This is a normal post Let's just see if the Vulcans spotted him
and land to make first contact with him tomorrow.
 (The Porcupine From Purgatory Ningles, mateyplops! How are the kids? *smoosh*, Wed 21 Jul 2021, 12:29, Reply)