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Amazon Boss Shows Off Spacecraft (Bezos' Blue Origin Flight Test)
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| January 4, 2007
Posted on 01/04/2007 9:21:28 AM PST by anymouse
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To: toeknee32
"I still like Burt Rutan's group design - Spaceship One. Simplistic and already got to space."
Me too. Wings are old school, but they work great when the engine quits. This thing looks like a gum drop and if something goes wrong I can see it screwing itself into the center of the earth in no time.
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01/04/2007 9:43:55 AM PST
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: Jhensy
The best thing about this accomplishment is that they used exactly "Zero" of your tax dollars to do this.
So pardon Jeff Bezos if he doesn't give a rat's fart about whether or not you think it is real or has enough exhaust plume to "look real."
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posted on
01/04/2007 9:47:59 AM PST
by
anymouse
To: taxed2death
That's what parachutes are for.
BTW, wings don't always ensure a safe landing. Just ask the Columbia shuttle crew. Oh wait you can't - because they are all dead!!!
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posted on
01/04/2007 9:50:47 AM PST
by
anymouse
To: anymouse
So pardon Jeff Bezos if he doesn't give a rat's fart about whether or not you think it is real or has enough exhaust plume to "look real."Aaah bite me, Werner Von Moron.
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posted on
01/04/2007 10:00:43 AM PST
by
Jhensy
To: anymouse
hotel tycoon Robert Bigelow Wolves as big as SUVs!
To: alnitak
Same problems. How they gonna get single-stage-to-orbit with H2/O2? Insufficient Isp.
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posted on
01/04/2007 10:13:57 AM PST
by
darth
To: anymouse
Yay!
Now abolish the black hole of government funds that is NASA.
To: Westlander
285 feet.... well they've surpassed the Wright Bros. on the first launch...... that's progress I suppose.
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posted on
01/04/2007 10:36:19 AM PST
by
Enchante
(Chamberlain Democrats embraced by terrorists and America-haters worldwide!!)
To: Westlander
285ft down, only 327,075 more to the edge of space.
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posted on
01/04/2007 11:05:49 AM PST
by
MediaMole
(9/11 - We have already forgotten.)
To: Deaf Smith
Mission Control
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posted on
01/04/2007 2:30:12 PM PST
by
Westlander
(Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
To: TeenagedConservative
To: anymouse
Did we ever find out where Henry V. wound up?
To: Shuttle Shucker
If you haven't figured that out with this recent development, you don't know Henry.
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01/05/2007 7:41:38 AM PST
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anymouse
To: anymouse
So he's with 'em? Fantastic! :-)
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