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Burt Rutan On his Upcoming X-Prize Attempt

Posted by timothy on from the good-fine-americans-like-dr-wernher-von-braun dept.

dkleinsc writes "The BBC is running an article about Burt Rutan, the head of Scaled Composites and creator of SpaceShip One. He talks about his motivation (besides fame and a big pile of cash) for the project."

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  1. He's doing it for the chicks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do you know how well "Have you ever had sex in outer space?" works as a pick-up line?

    1. Re:He's doing it for the chicks by addaon · · Score: 4, Funny

      Do you know how well "Have you ever had sex in outer space?" works as a pick-up line?

      Yes. Yes, I do.

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    2. Re:He's doing it for the chicks by Witchblade · · Score: 2, Funny

      I thought that was why he grew the sideburns...

  2. 09/29/04 by kalicki · · Score: 1, Funny

    A date which will live in history?

    1. Re:09/29/04 by sailracer6 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well, it is my birthday...

  3. Any truth to the rumor . . . by ir0b0t · · Score: 4, Funny

    he's going to cue up Steppenwolf before takeoff and ushering in a new era of peaceful space exploration and mini-skirts?

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  4. Disgruntled Star Trek fan... by Sassquatch · · Score: 2, Funny

    Rutan's accomplishments pale in comparison to those of the late great Zefram Cochrane. Sure, Rutan will have fame and fortune, but will he ever get his own statue in Bozeman that looks to the very location in the sky where he made first contact? I think not.

  5. Brannigan's law by roman_mir · · Score: 2, Funny

    As for ET? Rutan hopes there is local life on other planets, because it would be fun to do what holidaymakers do: "interface them". -

    We have failed to uphold Brannigan's law; however, I did make it with a hot alien babe, and in the end is that not what man has dreamt since first he looked up at the stars?

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