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Seriously I personally really don't care, I just see some irony to it. I will say I rode my bicycle for the first time in a while on a public road and it was annoying, no shoulder to the road and even when people slow to a crawl in cars behind me it sucked sharing the road with cars. It's no surprise to me that cyclist are a danger on roads to everyone including themselves, it wasn't enjoyable, I felt kinda stupid out there just waiting to get runned down and this was a narrow set of roads with mostly 25/30 mph speed limits. I really don't know how you guys do it. |
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Can someone who thinks this is an “achievement” / “accomplishment” help me understand how that is so?
Stipulating my belief that we should be able to spend what $ we have how we see fit, this billionaire space race seems to me as not much more than a bunch of dudes with gobs of $ leveraging technology developed by government(s) over the past 70 or so years to fly really, really, really high. How is that an “achievement” / “accomplishment”? Last edited by PQJ; 07-12-2021 at 06:21 AM. |
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Well, I'm not sure that I'd want to be on an Eroica spaceflight, although it'd be nice to wear any socks I want without the UCI slapping me with a fine.
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I am enjoying the resurgent space”race”. Yes, the US did some of this 65 years ago but then the US slipped way down the slope to relying on old soviet technology. Plenty of lost knowledge. So, now we have several companies working on concepts. You can’t go from zero to Mars without taking many steps, many repeated using new materials, etc. Some of these firms are crawling now but let’s see where in the race these companies are 10 years from now. |
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virgin galactic isnt developing anything to get humans to mars, they are all about sub-orbital space tourism.
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Agree..private 'space' flight, the technology. And, even tho not mentioned, Burt Rutan..a true aviation genius.
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Post 41 get's it....I dunno just seems like he's rationalizing the good vs. the bad. The bike makers and their perseverance with their contraption...All well and good back in a time of Earth's history with much less people on the planet and much less effects of the industrial revolution on this planet. The unemployment comment...I dunno, above my paygrade besides you sound a bit sarcastically grumpy and dare I say venturing into politics? |
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I don't care if it was a 'publicity stunt', it's still amazing..along with other 'games' other very wealthy people 'play', like F1 or unlimited air racing or owning a fleet of war birds or an America's Cup contender... Quote:
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When I was in the Air Force in the early '90s, there was a IMA reservist that would come in and mindlessly change the engineering drawings on weekends. The rocket company he worked for strongly urged him to invest his salary and he was buying $60k/yr of stock in that same company on top of that. I always wonder if one of these billionaires made it worth his time or if he lost all that. |
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--- Honesty I don't give one ratz azz about billionaires who don't pay their employees a decent wage going to space. Well that's not true I care enough to make this post but that's about it. Lets move on. |
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Lifting off from the planet takes a lot of energy. Who knows, maybe a battery powered plane will be the launching platform for a small space craft traveling to a space station.......from a space station to........ |
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The Wright's weren't wealthy. They were bicycle mechanics.
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