please be true holy shit
A "source who requested anonymity" told Messier that the company plans to fly Branson on a test flight of its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane over the July 4 weekend.
capitalism will sell the rockets with which billionaires will kill themselves - Lenin
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO STEM-LORDS WHO HAVE NEVER READ THE PARABLE OF ICARUS. LITERALLY COMPETING TO FLY CLOSER TO THE SUN.
Branson isn’t a stem lord and yet is the only person with an entire wiki section dedicated to being a Virgin.
Hopefully Elon musk will join in too, so we can get a triple, uhh, rocket malfunction at launch or high altitude
The three rockets collide in the air and explode in a huge inferno. Tonnes of debris rains down on spectators, the country and nearby towns. The damage to the local ecosystem is extensive and irreversible.
"Wow, just think of all the data we'll get from this" says @Daniel2949282 on Twitter.
The fact that I can see this happening, especially the twitter part...
I don't know what is more pathetic, these man-children trying to slave work their engineers into launching their toy spacecraft first.
Or that it's clearly a desperate attempt to maintain relevance against a third spoiled man-child that started later and is now orbit-capable and flexing by exploding as many grain silos as his own engineers can weld together in a 110 hour work-week.
CEO's: "Engineer servants, build me a dangerous vehicle to launch me at 1,000 miles per hour into an empty void, by next month."
Engineer servants: "But-"
CEO's: "NO BUTS, you fucking nerd-slaves. Build me my sky chariot, and do it now!"
Engineer servants: "I guess he never learned that being mean to a waiter might lead to them spitting in your food..."
Here's hoping billionnaires continue to try and one up each other with experimental, untested spacecraft that they're the only passenger of.
A British guy doing it over the weekend of July 4 is :chefs-kiss:
I mean fuck all these people but at least this is an amusing aspect.
These idiots are spending billions on a pissing contest while their people are being ravaged by a plague :agony-shivering:
Here's hoping both of them either blow up on the launch pad or get vaporized on re-entry.
Ah yes, I hope many corners are cut all around with this lovable privatized Space Race™ 2.0
Bit idea: all three billionaires go into space at the same time and have a battle to the death where they ram their rockets into each other
Only problem with this is that, while I want them both to die, I want Bezos to die more. If Branson goes first and dies, he might scare Bezos out of trying :rage-cry:
I'd say this increases the chances of either of them dying, Bezos sees this happening so rushes his own launch to beat Branson, Branson counters, both end up massively rushing their launch and hopefully one of them explodes.
:yes-hahaha-yes-l:
:sicko-yes: RUSH YOUR SCHEDULE, SKIP SAFETY CHECKSI thought about this little, bald man some more yesterday. He was trying to get money from Congress to fund his space shit, and people get mad because of course they do. So he says he wants to go to space all of a sudden on "his" rocket, now everyone starts talking about this fucker going into space, and then a lot of people previously against giving him money now wanted him to attempt it for the possible explosion lols. He could have bought a permanent lifetime seat on a Soyuz and never notice the costs.
Then I remembered his Amazon HQ2 bullshit, how he knew all along where he was going, and manipulated the media to get a better deal at those locations. That $250 Billion Sinophobia Bill yesterday gave Bezos $10 Billion for spaceflight. He got what he wanted, now I bet he can get some bullshit medical excuse that "won't allow space travel," or maybe he actually does do it. I don't know. All I know is he got what he wanted, and that was probably the point all along.
Guide Rules for the Rich #1: Never spend your own money, when you can take someone else's.
As for Branson, I think he's just an extremely dumb, rich guy that actually would hop on an experimental rocket to beat Bezos, but since he uses Virgin Galactic as a Ponzi scheme to scam other rich people, he might be trying to pump up its value and sell it before he gets sent to the underground, sacrificial chambers.
