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Lord British on Personal Spaceflight
FleaPlus writes "The Space Review has an interview with Richard Garriott (aka "Lord British"), best known as the creator of the genre-defining Ultima series of role playing games. In the interview he talks about his current work as the vice chairman of Space Adventures, and his thoughts on private-sector spaceflight in general. It includes an anecdote about how he funded the initial Russian studies which opened the door for Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, and Gregory Olsen's flights to the International Space Station, but was unable to go himself after the late-90s stock market bubble burst."
Clearly this isn't some off topic first post troll. It is more likely an alien race trying to communicate to us via well known alphabet letters about the perils of space travel. Clearly on topic.
but that space ship out in the field in Ultima VII doesn't do anything, oh wait, what is this article about?
He could have coded a backdoor into Ultima Online, and milked out hundreds of thousands of dollars of online gold. Just like Bill Gates has Skynet programmed on all windows boxes in case his plan for world domination ever gets out.
God spoke to me.
well that's easy
on the felucca shard there's a portal northwest of yew
just watch out for the orc camp near there
walk around the portal twice, then enter from the southwest
voila: outer space
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
In space, no one can hear you scream when you get assassinated -- again. :P