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What kind of watch was he wearing or does the craft have a clock?
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...and props to branson for bankrolling the entire virgin galactic endeavour.
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This flight provides a new way to think about Branson's wealth. The maximum altitude achieved by this flight was 55 miles.
Stacking 100 single dollar bills results in a pile 0.43 inches high (according to the internet). So, a stack of one billion dollar bills gives a pile 4,300,000 inches high, which is 358,333.3 feet, or 67.9 miles. Richard Branson's wealth is estimated to be 6 billion dollars (according to the internet). So, his wealth stacked as single dollar bills would result in a pile 407 miles high. So, this flight would have made it over 13.5% of his wealth stacked as 1 dollar bills. By the way, Bezos' wealth is estimated to be about 212 billion dollars (according to the internet). Last edited by bthornt; 07-11-2021 at 01:38 PM. |
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...i wish all these billionaires going to space would just do us all a favour and stay there
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Not exactly "space", though that is not well- defined.
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The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), an international standard-setting and record-keeping body for aeronautics and astronautics, defines the Kármán line as the altitude of 100 kilometres (54 nautical miles; 62 miles; 330,000 feet) above Earth's mean sea level.
NASA, the US Space Force, US Air Force and Federal Aviation Administration define the boundary as 50 miles (80 km) above sea level. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A1rm%C3%A1n_line |
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It's probably good for society if space flight is more accessible, with more suppliers, so this, at a minimum, an indicator that things are moving in a good direction. Also, high-skilled civil servants should be paid more.
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So did he say if it's flat or round?
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Spaceship must been British: the engine stopped working, they had to coast back to earth.
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Awesome achievement considering and I wonder how it contributed to the already massive carbon footprint mankind is making? I sure wish these billionaires could do something to reverse global warming instead of piling onto it.
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