[Servant of the 9]

I don't like Burt Rutan, and I don't think this suborbital "White Knight" is going to be the so-called sparkplug for commercial space travel...I'd still pay to go up in it, though.

I don't like Bill Gates, or Larry Ellison, or Steve Jobs, but that's not the point.
They are brilliant cut-throat assholes.
So is Burt Rutan.
That is a recipe for success.
I wouldn't want any of them in the family, but I sure want them running companies I invest in.

So9

[narby]

They are brilliant cut-throat assholes. So is Burt Rutan.

Really?

Who's the competition he beat up on?

If there weren't a scaled composites, then this stuff just wouldn't get done. All the rest (in the X prize competition) are either failures, or frauds.