Richard Branson

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

11 hours ago, Davey Jones' Locker said:

Spaceship Roulette is back on! Not Branson this time but rather Elon Musk"s mob are about to announce the name of their first passenger on their trip around the moon/suicide journey:

 

https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-spacex-passenger/spacex-signs-first-private-passenger-to-fly-around-the-moon-idUKKCN1LU04A

 

So why post it in the Branson thread?  

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,325]

12 hours ago, Cat O'Falk said:

So why post it in the Branson thread?  

Because, strangely enough, we waffled on as usual and drifted off topic. 

 

That said, if space tourism really does start happening in a big way over the next few years, it might actually be worth  creating a Spaceship Roulette thread for when inevitably a rich and ostentatious celeb's beta testing of this technology for us plebs goes horribly wrong. Mods, please merge.

[Cat O'Falk 3,290]

1 hour ago, Davey Jones' Locker said:

Because, strangely enough, we waffled on as usual and drifted off topic. 

 

That said, if space tourism really does start happening in a big way over the next few years, it might actually be worth  creating a Spaceship Roulette thread for when inevitably a rich and ostentatious celeb's beta testing of this technology for us plebs goes horribly wrong. Mods, please merge.

 

Space Tourists

Spaceship Roulette

 

Do you have alzheimers? Are you obitable?

Answer the second question first. 

[Joey Russ 7,263]

3 hours ago, Cat O'Falk said:

 

Space Tourists

Spaceship Roulette

 

Do you have alzheimers? Are you obitable?

Answer the second question first. 

Yes, we all will die sometime.  

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,325]

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will be first paying idiot/guinea pig:

 

 

http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/spacex-moon-passenger-to-invite-artists-on-journey/10263370

 

 

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,325]

On 15/09/2018 at 20:34, Cat O'Falk said:

 

Space Tourists

Spaceship Roulette

 

Do you have alzheimers? Are you obitable?

Answer the second question first. 

I'm Peter Falk.

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,325]

Astronaut Andy Thomas thinks Branson's spaceship technology is too dangerous:

 

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"The thing I've got to say about Richard Branson is he could sell refrigerators to eskimos. He's a businessman and he's portraying that flight experience in a way that I would not be comfortable saying," Dr Thomas said.

 

"It's true that he will fly to the edge of space but he can't stay there. He falls right back down.

 

"It's really just a high altitude aeroplane flight and a dangerous one at that."

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-17/andy-thomas-criticises-sir-richard-branson-over-space-technology/10627620

 

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,325]

Virgin Galactic hopes to launch tourist flights by the end of this year.

 

"[There has been]  criticism from the likes of Australian astronaut Andy Thomas, who said the program is dangerous, dead-end, glorified aeroplane travel.

 

One Time magazine editor called Virgin Galactic "amateur hour" and Mr Branson "a man driven by too much hubris, too much hucksterism and too little knowledge of the head-crackingly complex business of engineering".

 

Another writer said the company was without a real business plan beyond "the vague talk of space tourism, and the spacecraft it built was hardly able to accomplish even that"."

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-25/virgin-galactic-hopes-to-launch-tourist-space-flights-in-2019/10829902

[maryportfuncity 10,684]

5 hours ago, Davey Jones' Locker said:

Virgin Galactic hopes to launch tourist flights by the end of this year.

 

"[There has been]  criticism from the likes of Australian astronaut Andy Thomas, who said the program is dangerous, dead-end, glorified aeroplane travel.

 

One Time magazine editor called Virgin Galactic "amateur hour" and Mr Branson "a man driven by too much hubris, too much hucksterism and too little knowledge of the head-crackingly complex business of engineering".

 

Another writer said the company was without a real business plan beyond "the vague talk of space tourism, and the spacecraft it built was hardly able to accomplish even that"."

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-25/virgin-galactic-hopes-to-launch-tourist-space-flights-in-2019/10829902

 

Every cloud and all that, mind...

 

His 2020 passenger lists could be DDP theme team gold - and significant employment opportunities for those wishing the highest paid job-siitters would just f-off and die!

 

Bring it on, or summat

 

[En Passant 3,755]

People are gluing themselves to the intercontinental in London where there's an Oil Execs Meeting (rightly in my view, something needs to be done).

OTOH, some folks don't think jetting all over the world is screwing it up fast enough, lets go to space (and it's not actually, it is, as is so rightly pointed out, just an extremely high flight).

 

I don't mind so much that some people have too much money (well, arguably I do, but that's a whole other discussion) I do resent that they think they can just fuck the planet for their own specious desires to the detriment of their own, and everyone elses children.

[YoungWillz 21,205]

Och, if only the Committee had gone for famous mother of famous person.

 

Anyway, Eve Branson has died:

 

[Paul Bearer 6,130]

Takes off on his journey into space today at 2 pm UK time. 

[maryportfuncity 10,684]

23 minutes ago, Paul Bearer said:

Takes off on his journey into space today at 2 pm UK time. 

 

 

Aye, going first with the worst safety record of the dick-wavers. You get the feeling that somewhere along the way it's going to end badly for one of them.

[RoverAndOut 4,755]

3 hours ago, maryportfuncity said:

Aye, going first with the worst safety record of the dick-wavers. You get the feeling that somewhere along the way it's going to end badly for one of them.

 

If he dies today, he won't even make the front pages tomorrow given the England final!

[time 8,677]

3 hours ago, Paul Bearer said:

Takes off on his journey into space today at 2 pm UK time. 

Except its delayed.

 

Like his trains.

[Bentrovato 1,104]

6 minutes ago, RoverAndOut said:

 

If he dies today, he won't even make the front pages tomorrow given the England final!

There was an apparent Virgin birth a couple of thousand years ago. Not sure the Virgin death ever made the history books. 

[time 8,677]

35 minutes ago, Bentrovato said:

There was an apparent Virgin birth a couple of thousand years ago. Not sure the Virgin death ever made the history books. 

Alleged, not apparent.

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[Bentrovato 1,104]

6 minutes ago, time said:

Alleged, not apparent.

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Twice in a week. Implied/inferred. Alleged/apparent. 

 

[Paul Bearer 6,130]

2 hours ago, time said:

Except its delayed.

 

Like his trains.

He's on his way up now. 

[maryportfuncity 10,684]

One down (to earth) two (Bezos, Musk) to go. 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57797297

[Sir Creep 7,071]

Well done, Richard.

 

 

[Whitehouse 874]

A sad loss for the world;

Jeff Bezos returned to earth.

[YoungWillz 21,205]

Joan Branson has a broken leg "after falling off the pavement while carrying two grandchildren": https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11487783/EDEN-CONFIDENTIAL-Chelsea-diner-stars-menu.html

 

So cold is the Mail reporting, no word on the health of the kids.