Virgin Galactic crashes a spaceship, one dead

[midnight rambler]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-virgin-galactics-spaceship-anomaly-testing-20141031-story.html

[Serpo]

http://www.trbimg.com/img-5453e2a6/turbine/la-fi-virgin-galactic-test-flight-pictures-021/1150/1150x647http://www.trbimg.com/img-5453e2a4/turbine/la-fi-virgin-galactic-test-flight-pictures-020/1150/1150x647http://www.trbimg.com/img-5453e2a5/turbine/la-fi-virgin-galactic-test-flight-pictures-018/1150/1150x647



Bit of a pity as the seemed to be virging on success.

[mick silver]

didn't that ship have air brakes

[Serpo]

don't that ship have air brakes


Of course ..............its called the ground................

[old steel]

They don't want civilians in space. Never happen.

[gunDriller]

Could slow down ticket sales a bit.

Might have to re-think their marketing strategy.

Perhaps go after the wealthy Assisted-Suicide market.


"The crash was the second catastrophe in the commercial space industry in a week. On Tuesday night, an unmanned rocket exploded just seconds after liftoff from a Virginia launch pad. The $200-million rocket, owned by Orbital Sciences, was carrying supplies to the space station. No one was injured in that explosion."

[Serpo]

It is starting to look as there is no escape from planet earth......................

[Shami-Amourae]

It is starting to look as there is no escape from planet earth......................

Hence why I don't believe in aliens. There's a limit to technology and I doubt any intelligent species will or has left their own solar system.

[TRUTHseekr]

Man, what is this now like 3-4 planes in the last 3 days? Must be some extra potent chemtrails lately.

[Glass]

or gravity is stronger this week.

[woodman]

Hence why I don't believe in aliens. There's a limit to technology and I doubt any intelligent species will or has left their own solar system.

I don't have any beliefs at all about aliens. I just don't have enough info. I truly think that if we don't destroy ourselves, we will certainly explore and colonize the outer reaches of space. Our society is in it's infancy as far as technology is concerned. If we could shake off the parasitical entities that pass as organized government (really just organized crime syndicates) we could eventually form sophisticated societies that would turn social energies in positive directions other that war and institutionalized plunder. As it stands, I believe our technologies will be put to negative uses and we will destroy ourselves and our planet.

[crimethink]

Hence why I don't believe in aliens. There's a limit to technology and I doubt any intelligent species will or has left their own solar system.

Humans are designed to exist in Earth's environment, with a specific, tiny range of atmospheric pressure, radiation levels, gravity, and magnetic field. We have defied the Design, and think we have "overcome" it. However, this is an example of how our hubris is dismissed and we are bitch-slapped back into reality (let alone Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia!).

(and some of us are still waiting for the legitimate, scientifically-valid explanation of how NASA used thin sheet metal in place of the Earth's magnetosphere to prevent rapid death to the Apollo astronauts from solar & cosmic radiation, LOL).

[Neuro]

So far it has reached 71,000 feets, which isn't that high...

[crimethink]

So far it has reached 71,000 feets, which isn't that high...

Man, that's pathetic! I haven't been following VG, so I did not know that.

An SR-71, jet-powered, flew at 85,069 feet.

[Dogman]

The SR-71 as I understand it from some that I knew at the time, have said that it could fly over 100 angels riding the thin edge of stability.


This is one of the toys that I worked on while in the service as a A.G.E, electric grease monkey.

http://www.wvi.com/~sr71webmaster/ag330_sr.htm

[Neuro]

Hence why I don't believe in aliens. There's a limit to technology and I doubt any intelligent species will or has left their own solar system.
Whacko's do on a regular basis though!

[Neuro]

Man, that's pathetic! I haven't been following VG, so I did not know that.

An SR-71, jet-powered, flew at 85,069 feet.
According to the article above the goal is for this to reach 60 miles above earth, but so far they have only been able to reach, what? 13-14 miles with the regular jet taking it up to 9 miles... Didn't Baumgartner get up to around 70,000 feet for his freefall skydive, with a balloon?

[Dogman]

According to the article above the goal is for this to reach 60 miles above earth, but so far they have only been able to reach, what? 13-14 miles with the regular jet taking it up to 9 miles... Didn't Baumgartner get up to around 70,000 feet for his freefall skydive, with a balloon?

Over 100,000 feet for his dive!

[Neuro]

Over 100,000 feet for his dive!
Yeah around 129,000 feet, and a guy after him dived from over 130,000 feet. Lots of fantastic records here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_altitude_record

[midnight rambler]

Note that the flight altitude record for manned air-breathing jet propelled aircraft is held by the Russians and they got there with a clunky MiG-25.

And fwiw if you've got the time, inclination, and walkin' around money you can go to Russia and fly in a MiG-25UB trainer (riding in the student pilot position, i.e. the front seat while wearing a gen-u-ine Rooski space suit) to an altitude of 80,000 ft. for less than 10% what VG is currently quoting - and just as soon as you arrive in Russia, not some glorious day in the unknown future.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Russian_Air_Force_MiG-25.jpg

[gunDriller]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-02/subdued-richard-branson-leads-mourning-after-virgin-crash.html

I thought this was interesting.

Your space-ship crashes.

What do you do ? Hire a Jew Public Relations firm.

"Jessica Gilbert of Edelman Public Relations, hired by Virgin to handle media inquiries about the crash, said she couldn’t comment immediately about Branson’s activities in Mojave or his plans."

Branson must have paid at least $1 Million to hire the PR firm. That would be $50,000 per word.

I wonder how much Branson paid Edelman ?


http://www.edelman.com/

"Edelman is a public relations firm founded and named after Daniel Edelman (July 3, 1920 – January 15, 2013)[3] and currently run by his son Richard Edelman."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Edelman

[crimethink]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-02/subdued-richard-branson-leads-mourning-after-virgin-crash.html

I thought this was interesting.

Your space-ship crashes.

What do you do ? Hire a Jew Public Relations firm.

"Jessica Gilbert of Edelman Public Relations, hired by Virgin to handle media inquiries about the crash, said she couldn’t comment immediately about Branson’s activities in Mojave or his plans."

Branson must have paid at least $1 Million to hire the PR firm. That would be $50,000 per word.

I wonder how much Branson paid Edelman ?


http://www.edelman.com/

"Edelman is a public relations firm founded and named after Daniel Edelman (July 3, 1920 – January 15, 2013)[3] and currently run by his son Richard Edelman."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Edelman

Branson is a playboy. He says "we will persevere" on this, but you can bet he won't be aboard. Easy to play around with other peoples' lives.

He knows this is a huge mess with significant threat to the Virgin Empire. He hired "the best" liars to make the problem "go away."

[midnight rambler]

Branson is a playboy. He says "we will persevere" on this, but you can bet he won't be aboard. Easy to play around with other peoples' lives.

He knows this is a huge mess with significant threat to the Virgin Empire. He hired "the best" liars to make the problem "go away."

Based on what I've seen of the depictions of the 'space tourist' seating on the VG spaceship there's no provision whatsoever for evacuating the cabin at ANY altitude should the need arise - definitely some cherished delusions going on there, belying the truly dangerous nature of 'space flight'. Even the Russians installed Zvezda ejection seats in their space shuttle orbiter even though they never sent up their shuttle with pilots (it was launched, flown, and landed by remote control).

Russian space shuttle ejection seat, a modified Zvezda K-36 -

http://www.friends-partners.org/mwade/graphics/s/strizhr3.jpg

[crimethink]

Based on what I've seen of the depictions of the 'space tourist' seating on the VG spaceship there's no provision whatsoever for evacuating the cabin at ANY altitude should the need arise - definitely some cherished delusions going on there, belying the truly dangerous nature of 'space flight'. Even the Russians installed Zvezda ejection seats in their space shuttle orbiter even though they never sent up their shuttle with pilots (it was launched, flown, and landed by remote control).

Russian space shuttle ejection seat, a modified Zvezda K-36 -

http://www.friends-partners.org/mwade/graphics/s/strizhr3.jpg

Practicality is a Russian specialty.

Hubris is an Anglo-American specialty.