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 britt566
Female, 13-17, Eastern US
 1470 Posts
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Friday, October 03, 2008 9:14:17 AM
This was so exciting im crying right now. |
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 Vagrant86
Male, 18-29, Western US
2556 Posts
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Friday, October 03, 2008 7:00:37 AM
not that impressed really. |
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 Septemberex
Female, 13-17, Eastern US
374 Posts
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 5:18:28 PM
hey. new life.get a life. |
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 syke2
Male, 13-17, Southern US
29 Posts
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 7:35:36 AM
technology is pretty damn amazing |
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 Backfat
Male, 30-39, Western US
1919 Posts
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 7:16:33 AM
wtf. how can this be ther first when they are already building an International Space station in New Mexico, and what about the X project.Maybe this is the first to achieve such a high orbit, but it is far from the first. |
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 newlife
Male, 40-49, Midwest US
244 Posts
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 6:50:42 AM
i....couldn't....take....the .....sound.....skipping.....!!!!!
so what...some nerds put a rocket into space...AGAIN!!! Big deal, it's been done ppl!!!! |
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 Devi3000
Female, 18-29, Western US
1527 Posts
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 3:45:28 AM
LOL@JJWell I thought this was well done. Suck on that Nasa. |
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 Lionhart2
Male, 40-49, Australia
5383 Posts
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 8:12:43 PM
Oh wow that was my 500th post! What a lame joke for a 500th!  |
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Lionhart2
Male, 40-49, Australia
5383 Posts
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 8:12:05 PM
> JJXanaduSo... these were spaceships which went underwater, not into space, and had a sort of battlebot style strength competition to see which one could drown the other? I'm gonna have to rewatch the vid, I missed that... |
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 LazyMe484
Male, 18-29, Canada
4886 Posts
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:33:20 PM
Excellent. This is great. I hope there will be more to follow.Just think... the first man on mars will hold a microsoft flag! |
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 JJXanadu
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
339 Posts
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:26:19 PM
Here we go: SpaceShipOne reached 328,000 feet which is 100km. That classifies (just barely) as sub-orbital space flight. As you can hear in the video, this rocket gets to at least 350km, which is well within what is called Low Earth Orbit (LEO). Here's an analogy for those of you who don't quite get it. You and a friend are swimming in a pool, he says he can go underwater, then pinches his nose, puts his head under, and pulls it out, hair barely wet. Clearly, he went "underwater" but now you're gonna call him a pussy because he didn't go all the way under. SpaceShipOne is that pussy. You then touch the bottom of the pool with your hand. You are much cooler than a pussy. You're Falcon1. Then, you proceed to dunk your friend all the way to the bottom of the pool, hold him down until he can't breathe, and then laugh while he chokes. I don't know what that has to do with Falcon1, but it sure was funny... good times, good times.
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Lionhart2
Male, 40-49, Australia
5383 Posts
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:21:35 PM
> opiebreath
> Does the REAL first one have a movie about it or somethingNormally the "First" to do anything is the one with the best publicity at or near the time of the others, not the actual "first", but Richard Branson's SpaceShip One certainly wins on that count - he had mega publicity so everyone knew about it. A case in point is the WORLD'S FIRST POWERED FLIGHT, which 99.9% of the world thinks was the Wright Brothers, because they had a reporter on the scene who told the world about it AT THE TIME. In actuality, its fairly certain now they were NOT the first - Richard Pearse of New Zealand PROBABLY was (Link) but he didn't have reporters on the scene. |
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 garnye
Male, 13-17, Western US
200 Posts
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 6:48:51 PM
I thought Billy Bob Thornton did it. |
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 Ohnjaynb
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
596 Posts
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 5:57:04 PM
This is the first liquid propelled orbital launch vehicle developed from private funding. Space Ship One sorta touched space and glided back. Even though the rocket was entirely privately developed, it wound up being purchased by the US Department of Defense, but I'd say it still counts. I thought there were private spaceports for awhile now, but I guess their technology was partly government developed. |
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 opiebreath
Female, 18-29, Midwest US
14283 Posts
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 5:41:21 PM
I was going to say, Lion, why are they calling this the first one?Does the REAL first one have a movie about it or something? Or am I mixing stuff up in my head... |
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Lionhart2
Male, 40-49, Australia
5383 Posts
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 4:54:28 PM
> First Successful Private Space LaunchUm, isn't this completely WRONG??? This isn't the first successful private launch at all, Richard Branson's team won the X-Prize 4 years ago for being the first! "Mojave, CA: On October 4, 2004, SpaceShipOne rocketed into history, becoming the first private manned spacecraft to exceed an altitude of 328,000 feet twice within the span of a 14 day period, thus claiming the ten million dollar Ansari X-Prize." (Link) |
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 Okasen
Female, 13-17, Southern US
707 Posts
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 4:17:37 PM
XD my vision is a little buggy since I just had my eyes dilated and IO thought it said "first succesful pirate space launch."still cool... not as much as it could have been though D: |
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 CupOfSTFU
Female, 13-17, Eastern US
154 Posts
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 3:59:06 PM
I thought it said pirate space launch. lol |
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ElDavo
Male, 18-29, Eastern US
826 Posts
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 3:16:20 PM
Interesting to know, not so interesting to watch. Also, I'm not quite sure if private launches reaching space is actually a good thing... I get we'll just have to see. |
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 techgeek07
Male, 30-39, Eastern US
1599 Posts
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 3:15:49 PM
sry, dill, I didn't get your e-mail for a while |
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 tobyvictory
Male, 70 & Over, Asia
194 Posts
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 3:14:48 PM
The audio makes me wonder how it was successful. |
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 xiquiripat
Male, 18-29, Western US
1097 Posts
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 3:14:01 PM
Yay for space! |
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 Dylan5121
Male, 13-17, Eastern US
1265 Posts
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:58:14 PM
This reminds me of Dan Brown's Deception point book, a big factor int he book is the privatization of space funny because I finished the book last Sunday. |
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 chicobartend
Male, 18-29, Western US
219 Posts
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:57:02 PM
I think your mom fell off. |
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 dilldog123
Male, 13-17, Midwest US
2076 Posts
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:27:20 PM
Tech? Where have you been? I need help with my Ubuntu. |
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