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Paul Allen Confirmed as SpaceShipOne's Sponsor
Shafe writes "Space.com confirmed suspicions that Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen was the secret investor in Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne, which completed a successful supersonic flight on the same day as the centennial of flight. Allen hopes Rutan's ship will win the $10 million X-Prize to help kickstart private manned space flight."
I guess he plans to blast the Trailblazers into space so they won't cause him anymore problems.
I hadn't before heard of this Microsoft of which you speak.
id software to write games that run on non-MS platforms!
I kid.
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Oh. Damn that's good to know. The Microsoft co-founder, eh?
If history is anything to go by, that contraption won't be worth a thing until SpaceShipThreePointOne is built.
Blearf. Blearf, I say.
There were 5 posts so far and none of them was anti-Microsoft.
Come on guys, we can do better than this!
This spaceship has encountered an error and will self-destruct now. Microsoft apologizes for the inconvenience...
how long until
Well if they use windows on the operatoring system for the Microsoft MicroShip, when it gets hacked as an SMTP relay, it will give new meaning to Chuck Yeager's phrase for the mercury astronauts "Spam in a can"
I make my face look like this and concerned words come out.
when the MicroSoft spacecraft crashes.
- - - If the sun is a star, why can't I see it at night?
I thought that it said Alien confirmed as sponsor. And that would have been good news.
How did the plywood fare after hitting Mach 1?
Trolling is a art,
...flash-frozen space corpse.
I hope their rocket design is better than their web skilz... Nice site with better than 1/2 the page (at 1024x768) taken up by a cheesy graphic and menu.
Finally, some Microsoft money being used for good rather than evil!
...I just came for the free beer.
Good! they're investing on ships so they're prepared when we kick'em from earth!
ajf
Quick! Maybe we can Slashdot Microsoft!
Endless arguments over trivial contradictions in books written by ignorant savages to explain thunder in the dark.
Why would that be ironic? Most people do not view their OS as a religon and use the best tool for the job.
But what good can a tool be that is not approved by god?
I for one have chosen the sanctified one under the kernels, just to be on the safe side!
"CTRL ALT DELETE! CTRL ALT DELETE!"
IAALS.
Perhaps, but wouldn't opening Windows in space blow you out into the vacuum? ;)
To-do List: Receive telemarketing call during a tornado warning. Check.
Okay bring on the jokes about usiing the MS operating system in space...
"I have no idea what happend - this blue screen appeared and the ship shut down on re-entry..."
(Sponsored by cheeseSource for President 2012)
that might explain why they used Visual Basic naming conventions.
I would practically give my right arm to go on any one of these trips.
If you went on one of these trips there's a good chance that you'd end up giving a lot more of your body than your right arm.
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Excuse me, sir, but a lot of us on Slashdot not only don't hate Steve Jobs, we would pay good money to roll around in the leader's dirty underwear!
Whereas Paul Allen's spacecraft will have all kinds of gadgets you didn't think a spacecraft really needed (and won't really be safe to fly in until the first Service Pack), Carmack's craft will have guns. LOTS of guns.
When I am king, you will be first against the wall.
Just look at his other high-profile outsied adventure : the Seattle Seahawks.
0 Super Bowls.
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Congrats you are hereby awarded a class A zealot license. You may proceed to spread your zealotry at will without any regard to truth. God speed, young zealot!
... Bill Gates of Microsoft has admitted to be a secret and a major is a sponsor of Clonaid (http://www.clonaid.com/news.php).