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SpaceShipOne Flight Completed Successfully
knothead99 writes "CNN is reporting the successful liftoff of SpaceShipOne from a runway in the Mojave desert. Around 10:30 EDT the craft will reach an altitude of 50,000 feet and they'll separate from White Knight and ignite the rocket for space entry. More information can also be found at the Mojave Airport website" Update: 06/21 15:36 GMT by S : An MSNBC story confirms that SpaceShipOne 'glided safely back to Earth, landing back at the Mojave Airport' around 8.15AM PST.
I guess Microsoft money is good for something!
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Hmmm... Off Topic, ehhh. MLH, do you agree with my post being modded down? Here we have TWO technology-related stories, one with a civilian seemingly trouncing some NASA activities, and another in the wake or 9/11 and BILLIONS of tax dollars spent improving--supposedly-- US security. Oy vey (spelling?). Off Topic. That should BE a topic of concern.
Previously: "Linux... Toward the Sunrise..." Now: "Linux... Toward the-- No, now, part of Every Sunrise"
The original NASA charter was to be a "civilian" space program.
"Civilians" were primarily involved in the decision to impose sexually abusive techniques in the Abu Ghurayb prison.
While military discipline tends to slide quite a bit during peacetime (and times where the "war" isn't really life-or-death for the powers that be) the government space program would have been a lot better off if it had been purely military rather than "civilian".
There would likely have been far less competition between the governmental and private sector.
Having said that, there is simply no substitute for a society based on Yeoman farmer conservatism where the nation's real might is derived from free and independent people who know how to use tools and defend their own lands -- and the loss of that society during the 20th century is the true source of all this damaging government policy.
That is the society that gave rise to the Wright Brother's bike shop, the golden age of aviation and the real might of the United States during mobilization in WW II and beyond. That might is not entirely gone yet, but it is profoundly damaged and severely threatened with destruction.
Seastead this.
Especially because she is doing it while straddling two lanes of traffic in front of me, in a bohemeth that completely blocks my view of the sky ahead.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
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In a press release from Texas, John Carmack noted that Doom III was being delayed another month to "punish those Californian dweebs."
Half-Life 2 was said to be available........on the moon
Fellowship 9/11