Let's lathe of heaven this shit.

  • northernflicker [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    If only I bet their ships have better qc than the ones we tend to send out for exploration purposes.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Unfortunately, the sort of people who spend pretty much every waking hour from age 15 studying aerospace engineering and don't jump into military R&D tend to be irritatingly ethical.

      Also your choices, if you won't go Mil/Spook and don't land a NASA or SpaceX gig, are pretty limited so fucking around on Bezos' billion dollar dildo is a good gig, and hey, maybe he'll stop meddling and make orbit in a decade or so.

  • MelaniaTrump [undecided]
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    3 years ago

    Branson just invented a new sport: billionaire roulette

    one of these fucks is going up in flames guaranteed

    “The structural integrity of the entire stabilizer was compromised,” Todd Ericson, a test pilot who also served as a vice president for safety and test, said, according to a soon-to-be-published book. “I don’t know how we didn’t lose the vehicle and kill three people.”

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/02/01/richard-branson-virgin-galactic-test-book/