Good Luck - Bon Voyage - May your flight be as successful as Icarus...
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| Science & Technology |
| Jeff Bezos wins the billionaire space race: Amazon founder announces that he and his brother will fly to the edge of space next MONTH on a Blue Origin spacecraft, beating rivals Richard Branson and Elon Musk to the punch |
| 2021-06-07 |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #22 *hug* |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-06-07 23:34 |
| #21 I still love her, even as she tries to ruin me. |
| Posted by: Shiva Protector of the Hohlraums 2021-06-07 23:19 |
| #20 The Macs never screw up the sig. The PCs do it several times a week. No idea why. |
| Posted by: Shiva Protector of the Hohlraums 2021-06-07 23:15 |
| #19 Thank you TW, but her present personality is dementia driven. I wish I could help, but she is not the same person. Thank you nonetheless. |
| Posted by: Shiva Protector of the Hohlraums 2021-06-07 23:11 |
| #18 I’m so sorry to hear about your situation, dear Thumper Unique7716. I wish there were something I could do to help. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-06-07 22:18 |
| #17 But Bezos is going to be payload in a suborbital flight, so he "wins"? Spam in a can, as they used to say in the early days. I admire Bezos having skin in the game, but you do actually have to cross the finish line before you are the winner. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-06-07 21:30 |
| #16 Virgin has been taking their test pilots to near the Karman Line for a long long time. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2021-06-07 20:07 |
| #15 Just barely the Karman Line so just barely suborbital. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2021-06-07 20:06 |
| #14 I take it 'fringe of space' is like 'suborbital'. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2021-06-07 18:35 |
| #13 Unless he manages to wreck the rescue ship... |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-06-07 18:32 |
| #12 People rescue Matt Damon, he doesn't rescue other people. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2021-06-07 18:10 |
| #11 jpal: It just occured to me that we could send Matt Damon with him. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-06-07 16:41 |
| #10 #8 If we buy Bezos a ride on a Falcon 9H, we can launch him far enough out that he'll stay there. Snark much do you Thing? |
| Posted by: jpal 2021-06-07 16:09 |
| #9 The first thing that flashed into my mind is 'he's dying'. The second was he wants to beat Musk so badly that he is risking it all for ego. But taking his brother with him? Then, going through a divorce myself, I thought maybe the divorce was too much for him. It is incredibly wearing, after 49 years of marriage (for me) I find divorce and all the things that had built over time, now gone, a great burden. Then I saw comment #7, and got a laugh out of it. |
| Posted by: Thumper Unique7716 2021-06-07 16:02 |
| #8 If we buy Bezos a ride on a Falcon 9H, we can launch him far enough out that he'll stay there. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-06-07 14:58 |
| #7 Has their ever been a manned launch where folks were indifferent if the thing blew up or not, or actively voting for failure? |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2021-06-07 13:18 |
| #6 Um, what? Bezos hasn't put anything into orbit. SpaceX had two launches over the last week. They've had 120 Falcon 9 launches -- including 2 manned missions. SpaceX is building their first complete Starship stack. But Bezos is going to be payload in a suborbital flight, so he "wins"? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2021-06-07 11:43 |
| #5 Mehh. Tell me when they get to the outer edge of space. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-06-07 11:32 |
| #4 The Feds should prepare for a sudden influx of estate taxes. |
| Posted by: Ulolump Grumble1426 2021-06-07 11:20 |
| #3 Good Luck - Bon Voyage - May your flight be as successful as Icarus... |
| Posted by: Lemuel Dribble2667 2021-06-07 11:09 |
| #2 Needlessly spinning the wheel of fate. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-06-07 10:10 |
| #1 Virgin Galactic sends manned shuttle to fringe of space |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-06-07 10:05 |