Scaled Composites pulled it off! Whoot!
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Scaled Composites pulled it off! Whoot!
"If it ain't the Devil's music, you ain't doin' it right" -- Chris Thomas King
"C makes for an awfully long lever." - H. Beam Piper
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What!!! They beat me to it?
Congrats to Team Scaled Composites.
Phoenix...
"I'm not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity,
but maybe we should just remove all the safety lables and let nature take it's course"
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Now the hard part: FIlk writers have to find a rhyme for Scaled Composites...
"If it ain't the Devil's music, you ain't doin' it right" -- Chris Thomas King
"C makes for an awfully long lever." - H. Beam Piper
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All the others had failed rocketses.
OK, that was bad!
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Drunken DM and the Speak with Dead spell: "No, I'm not the limed-over skeleton of the abbot, and no this special key in my boney fingers does not open the door to the secret treasury! ... Oh crap."
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Now that it's all over I wonder what will happen to all of the other (serious) Xp-prize competitors? it would be a shame to dispatch all of the hard work they've done and the gathered expertise.. i hope some of it can be used and or they keep at it and go for it for the hell of it.. Who knows the other guys, without a multitrillionaire backer, might yet become the next space tourist company!
Ta Muchly
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As my sister pointed out to me, privately owned spaceflight and space exploration will ultimately lead to FTL travel. It's just inevitable.
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Well not really, someone has to work out if it's actually possible or practicable. Currently our best guesses are to build a pair of rings of superdense neutronium the size of the Earth's orbit.. most of everything else is hyperbole, it's not just a question of not having the interest or funding!
Ta Muchly
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X Prize evolves into annual competitionOriginally posted by Tobian
Now that it's all over I wonder what will happen to all of the other (serious) Xp-prize competitors? it would be a shame to dispatch all of the hard work they've done and the gathered expertise.. i hope some of it can be used and or they keep at it and go for it for the hell of it.. Who knows the other guys, without a multitrillionaire backer, might yet become the next space tourist company!
It means that serious competitors would have a chance next year.
CNN provided a gallery of this years competitors.
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Considering Burt Rutan's record in aerial achievements, I would love to see someone offer a prize for a trip to Mars or Venus. I bet Rutan could do it if he put his mind to it.
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