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Burt Rutan On Future Of SpaceShipOne (and Two)
Neil Halelamien writes "In a recent interview with the Desert Sun, Burt Rutan talks about the future of SpaceShipOne and SpaceShipTwo. The bad news is that SpaceShipOne will be retired straight to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, despite getting five different requests to fly suborbital payloads. The good news is that efforts are being focused on SpaceShipTwo, which will carry nine people, and fly higher and further downrange than SpaceShipOne. Virgin Galactic will purchase a fleet of five of these vehicles, which will start test flights in 2007. Virgin Galactic may end up competing with Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, which is rumored to be developing a VTOL suborbital vehicle. Also interesting to watch will be Rutan's involvement with t/Space, one of the companies contracted by NASA to conduct concept studies for the Vision for Space Exploration."
According to your own link, they already did W in 2000. He has now joined a very exclusive list of people to make TMotY twice.
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Now I know why, Apple prob sued and now you can't link with the "'s" anymore. Makes sense.
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> ... the bubble bursted before bush was in office
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The recession began, according to the GAO, in March of 2001. While Bush cannot be blamed for all of this, he can, and rightfully should be blamed for. If you want to claim an earlier recession, you need a cite.
1) Being the first president to post a net job loss since hoover; many presidents have experienced recessions, but they've all *been able to make it stop*
2) A multiple dip recession; first, a shallow dip in March, then a big dip after Sept. 11th, then when it started to recover, driving it into recession by uneasing the markets over Iraq; then when they thought the war in Iraq was over, dipping again due to instability in Iraq and other oil producing nations.
3) Such an incredibly slow recovery *at the same time as a weak dollar policy*. A weak dollar policy is supposed to encourage investment in the US economy, at the expense of lowering the buying power of Americans; managing both a recession and a weak dollar policy at the same time is quite a feat. MSNBC.com had a nice graph of how this "recovery" has compared to past recoveries; it's pretty embarassing.
> The environmental damage argument is pure BS
Yeah, that's why the Sierra Club rated him worse than any other president in their entire history.
> Only those against the US were involved in scandalous activities
Lets look at polls, now shall we?
http://www.endthewar.org/features/worldsuspicio
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2994
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,13554
That should resolve that once and for all. Virtually everyone's opinions of us have sharply been cut - in many cases, cut by a third or half. I'm not talking about governments, I'm talking about people.
> Too bad that Germany, France, and Russia got cought
Already well covered:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=133
> provoked many times during the Clinton administration
Yeah, because Saddam kept hiding those evil WMDs that he was secretly concealing in massive stockpiles, while throwing people into plastic shredders and building atomic bombs, right? I mean, that's what everyone who wanted war back then said he was doing. Or are you talking about the fact that we were banning Iraqi aircraft from flying through large parts of their own bloody airspace without international backing, and they tried to stop that?
We're all familiar with the tragedy of being you.
Basically, after the bubble bursted there was a market correction. You obviously know this. But I really doubt that Bush had a hand in it. If he had that much power, he would not be pulling a stunt like that in hopes to be getting elected again (which he did).
That should resolve that once and for all. Virtually everyone's opinions of us have sharply been cut - in many cases, cut by a third or half. I'm not talking about governments, I'm talking about people.
You think? Maybe..just maybe is has something to do with the #1 super power in the world actually waking up from it's military slumber and lashing out. Of course this would anger and frighten the rest of people around the world. It's a social shock to the globe. But damn if I stand on American soil and take the pop-shots from Islamic radicals. The middle east is and has been messed up for thousands of years now. It's only know they are getting the technology to pose a real threat (militery orginization and atomic power....see Iran). So naturally, it would NOT be wise to sit back and let the middle east pan out on it's own.
Life is not for the lazy.
Fuck Bill Gates, this is the worlds greatest businessman. I have personally seen and recorded 45 impromptu minutes of Branson speaking to young entrepreneurs at the drop of a hat when asked to by a complete stranger.
LTBN: "Hey! We're doing a thing across the street, would you mind saying a few words?"
Richard Branson: "Sure, let's go!"
Okay, he did ask for female volunteers to go on the round the world balloon trip while he was on the dais but it would have taken longer than 45 minutes to charm them all individually. Personally, I thought that was great, but some people gotta be haters.....
> waking up from it's military slumber and lashing out
What? Lashing out against the world, killing lots of people in a way that most of the world views as unprovoked, is making them mad? Who'da guessed?
> But damn if I stand on American soil and take
> the pop-shots from Islamic radicals.
Great! Because I know this middle eastern strongman who spent his whole life using whatever means necessary to stop Islamic radicals from attacking him and his secular government, earning their scorn and ire (and the label "infidel") the world over. His name is Saddam Hussein, and he lives at...
> see Iran
See Iran.
See Iran Make Nukes.
The The US Whine And Complain But Not Do Anything Because We're Bogged Down In Iraq Where There Are No Nukes.
See Iran Keep Making Nukes.
Should we write some more of these? How about:
See North Korea.
See North Korea Make Nukes.
See North Korea Make Missiles.
See North Korea Sell Missiles to Iran
See Iran Make Nukes To Go With Those Missiles
See North Korea Sell Nuke Tech And Missiles To Pakistan
See Pakistan Sell Nuke Tech To Everyone Else
See Pakistan Get A Slap On The Wrist.
We're all familiar with the tragedy of being you.
I think your starting to get the picture. But just to be sure, let me be more specific.
The whole idea of getting Saddam and his two sons out of power was two fold. 1st, he was tyrannical dictator with his minority Sunnis holding power over the majority (Shiite). 2nd, to set into motion an example of democrocy to the rest of the middle east.
As for North Korea and Iran; they will be delt with. But I have a feeling it will be very very swift to the tune of 100 megaton bombs. Either they will comply, or they wont. Waffling on the topic of nuclear weapons is not an option. Their very survival depends on it. But with China backing Iran and threatening Taiwan, it will only get more complicated. Then again, Japan is getting very upset of China too.
I could go on an on. But basically we are in WW3 if it hasn't already begun. The question is, when does it end and how?
Life is not for the lazy.
I applaud Bush for invading Iraq. It has cost the US alot of money and reduced the dollar further. My rent is much lower now (I pay in dollars, but get payed in NIS)
I'm overjoyed reading Bush's next targets - all aggressive muslim countries who'll resist America at all cost - more money spent, dollar goes down.
I burst into manical laughter at the notion of Bush dropping nukes. MAD, man. MAD.
China's where it's at, just like you said.
It's huge (never been conquered, only changed rulers from within), industrial, and have nukes.
How is the US going to fight one of the biggest countries in the world and the maker of most of US's products?
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