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SpaceShipOne Flight Test

Posted by michael on from the keep-parachute-handy dept.

Soft writes "Scaled Composites' entry for the X-Prize, the SpaceShipOne, has had a successful first (unpowered) flight test. The spacecraft was dropped from the White Knight carrier aircraft at 47,000 ft (14 km) and 105 kt (194 km/h, 120 mph) and touched down after a 1.1-hour glide at Mojave airport. Photos are available."

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  1. It's time to stop global warming! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Stop'em! Even if it means forcing entire nations into taking action! I for one am sick of the increasingly hot summers here in Europe. It is time America's refusal to work on this global problem is addressed. Refusing to curb the CO2 emissions should be considered as a crime against the humanity. Read more:

    The US and Australia have opted out of the protocol but will join those nations who have signed in Milan in December for talks on climate change.

    Tony Grayling, associate director of the IPPR, said: "Kyoto will not stop climate change.

    There may well on paper be other systems which would also deliver reductions, but the fact is that those systems remain on paper UK Government spokesman "The next international climate change negotiations must agree on a safe level of emissions in the long term and fair shares between nations.

    "In practice, this should mean contraction of global emissions and convergence towards equal per capita emissions rights.

    "This approach also has a better chance of bringing America, Australia and the developing nations on board."

  2. Re:Let's go! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    who the fuck do you think you are,

  3. That's what happens by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That's what happens when you let women out of the kitchen and they start taking over managerial positions. Look what the world has come to. Think, consider, design, re-design, test, blah blah blah. It's no wonder you can't get anything done anymore. Back when it was a man's world accomplishments were made. Technology moved forward. Men got things done.

    No more. I'm telling you, don't let the women out of the kitchen, except of course to go to the bedroom.

  4. OMG!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    A female!!!

  5. gratz, but... by curtlewis · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    No way in hell you'd catch me hitchin a ride on such a flimsy lookin rig. I can just see the wings getting ripped off by turbulence.

    I wish them and all the contestants success, though.

  6. Re:Creating life vs. creating technology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ah yes, the shemale view on life: you suck satan's dick