So f'in awesome.


jb

An awesome roller coaster ride for billionaires, now let the space tourism begin....what a waste of resources!

They are his resources to waste, aren't they?

Some of us buy super deluxe editions, some of us can afford to shoot for the moon.

Take into consideration all the things Sir Branson has done in his lifetime and he is a pretty fking amazing person. He deserves to be a billionaire and spend his money as he chooses. I am sure he pays taxes. His work also benefits humankind in many ways beyond the obvious. Just wait till we have to evacuate the planet. Might not be long now.

jb

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They are his resources to waste, aren't they?

Some of us buy super deluxe editions, some of us can afford to shoot for the moon.

Take into consideration all the things Sir Branson has done in his lifetime and he is a pretty fking amazing person. He deserves to be a billionaire and spend his money as he chooses. I am sure he pays taxes. His work also benefits humankind in many ways beyond the obvious. Just wait till we have to evacuate the planet. Might not be long now.

jb

Well said, jb
He's a person the Brits can (certainly should) be proud of!

I'm a GHOST living in a ghost town

True, thats his choice, no doubt an amazing person, but in light of the earth's current predicaments a rather selfish project. Pay your ticket, take your Covid test and evacuate...but to where? A handful billionaires living on a space station? Earth is still, by far, the most attractive place to be.

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They are his resources to waste, aren't they?

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A free alternative:



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Money, money, money ...
How about selling "lucky dip" tickets for us mortals? A small change to make a unique journey ...

I'm a GHOST living in a ghost town

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Money, money, money ...
How about selling "lucky dip" tickets for us mortals? A small change to make a unique journey ...

I understood this is exactly what they want to do.That being said I agree that space tourism is a waste of resources.

Billionaires in a private space race.

People are starving and struggling all over the world . WTF has happened to us ?


sc uk

Well said straycat

sadly he was allowed to return to earth....

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exactly, Stray Cat



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"you see men sailing on their ego trip...

blast off on their space ship

a million miles from reality....

no care for you, no care for me"

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Pretty cool and good for him

This is the billionaire Branson who wanted the British taxpayer to pay for his furloughed British Airways staff while he lived in a Caribbean tax haven counting his money to see if he had enough to buy a rocket. What a complete and utter w*nker!

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This is the billionaire Branson who wanted the British taxpayer to pay for his furloughed British Airways staff while he lived in a Caribbean tax haven counting his money to see if he had enough to buy a rocket. What a complete and utter w*nker!

He spends plenty of money on useful charity. You can't expect one man to save the world, when hundreds of millions are just brainlessly producing offsprings who have no honest chance to live a decent life. Maybe an additional suggestion to sir Richard: free condoms for everyone to bring down the global population to what it was before the Industrial Revolution.


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This looks far more adventurous to me:

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An awesome roller coaster ride for billionaires, now let the space tourism begin....what a waste of resources!

Really? This is YOUR take from a momentous achievement? Perhaps he should have abandoned the project as soon as Covid hit and just written off the >15 years development cost? Or, better, see it through and provide hope to millions of dreamers that there are better days to come.

Rod

I don't get how it's a "momentous achievement". NASA has been doing it for decades and this company did it several times and if they hadn't succeeded Branson himself would hardly have risked to do it himself. Some momentum

"Far out!" is probably the only appropriate comment here.

From the 50s onwards, whole generations of people have been raised with fantasies of outerspace and space travel. It is a myth that helped develop a lot of more or less useful stuff, yet as a goal, seems particularly unrewarding at this stage, given the risks and expenses involved, unless of course, your ego yearns for prestige.

For personal reasons, I prefer to rate Sir Branson's achievements in the music industry higher: Starting out with "Tubular Bells", the first single by Sex Pistols, then eventually the sale of his label to EMI. Let's be down to earth about it: even during the ownership of that major label, Virgin Records put out quite a few pretty good albums.

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I don't get how it's a "momentous achievement". NASA has been doing it for decades

Yep, just have a look into the development of the Space Shuttle (or competitors like Sänger) which started in the 1960s - [en.Wikipedia.org] . So nothing new to bring a spaceship into space on the back of a stratosphere-plane.

But this is the start of space tourism for the 'common folk.' Bit of a difference. Don't have to go thru months of vigorous training I'd imagine like astronauts do. Course one wouldn't be making space walks either!!

For me, personally, I am very excited to see this, as I've always dreamed of being up in space one day, and as I'm only 45, I plan on doing this before I die. It's the ultimate bucket list item.



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After all hilarious, is that what they call space? A mere 80 km up to the end of the mesosphere. And then 3 minutes of weightlessness? Wow! What a big noise about it. Today is not any longer the time for such stupid games.

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I don't get how it's a "momentous achievement". NASA has been doing it for decades

Yep, just have a look into the development of the Space Shuttle (or competitors like Sänger) which started in the 1960s - [en.Wikipedia.org] . So nothing new to bring a spaceship into space on the back of a stratosphere-plane.

Well besides a completely different design and the fact that it is a private and not government achievement, I think the real point of this being momentous is that it marks the start of a new space race and creating a tourism industry there, whatever one may think of that.

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This looks far more adventurous to me:

I'm sure that is still to come, as an 'add-on' for $300,000.