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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: pyro-manic on December 15, 2005, 08:05:32 am

Title: First commercial spaceport to be built in New Mexico
Post by: pyro-manic on December 15, 2005, 08:05:32 am
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4531018.stm
Title: Re: First commercial spaceport to be built in New Mexico
Post by: an0n on December 15, 2005, 08:20:13 am
It's all fun and games till a private sector conglomerate launches high-velocity kinnetic warheads at a planet-side competitor's quasi-military research installation.....
Title: Re: First commercial spaceport to be built in New Mexico
Post by: Turnsky on December 15, 2005, 08:31:50 am
"and in other news, mexicans find new and interesting ways to jump the US/Mexico border"
Title: Re: First commercial spaceport to be built in New Mexico
Post by: Ghost on December 16, 2005, 10:30:51 pm
Why is this not getting more love? This is really cool. First, a new plasma drive is tested, and now a commercial effing spaceport? WIN.
Title: Re: First commercial spaceport to be built in New Mexico
Post by: Rictor on December 16, 2005, 10:38:51 pm
Oh yay, Virgin gets to own and exploit some of the most sophisticated technology on the planet!
 :doubt: :doubt:
Title: Re: First commercial spaceport to be built in New Mexico
Post by: Ghost on December 16, 2005, 11:01:44 pm
Oh come on, who cares? You won't complain when they fly you to the moon in 2015 or whenever the **** they'd have the tech to do it.
Title: Re: First commercial spaceport to be built in New Mexico
Post by: Turnsky on December 16, 2005, 11:19:41 pm
Quote from: Rictor on December 16, 2005, 10:38:51 pm
Oh yay, Virgin gets to own and exploit some of the most sophisticated technology on the planet!
 :doubt: :doubt:

better than nasa pissfarting around with it for the next decade or so launching probes hither, yon, and into floating space rocks and planets. :p
Title: Re: First commercial spaceport to be built in New Mexico
Post by: Ford Prefect on December 16, 2005, 11:21:57 pm
Ghost, haven't you heard? Consistent cynicism is a sign of vast worldliness and superior intelligence.
Title: Re: First commercial spaceport to be built in New
Post by: aldo_14 on December 17, 2005, 10:06:53 am
I thought it was a sign of living in Scotland, but there you go......
Title: Re: First commercial spaceport to be built in New Mexico
Post by: Rictor on December 17, 2005, 11:15:16 am
I'm not being cynical...well, alright, I am, but with good reason. I don't like the idea of private interests controlling spaceflight just yet. In fact, if you want to get right down to it, I don't like the very idea of widespread spaceflight right now or in the near future. Just a decade ago, people were still oblivious to the Internet, and now we're already planning to send Averge Joe up to space.

Yes, I know; I'm a bitter old man trapped in a young man's body.