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Lord British on Personal Spaceflight

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

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."

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  1. asdf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    asdfasdfasdfasd

    1. Re:asdf by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      WINNER!

  2. What a boring story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Note to editors: No-one really gives a shit about this 'Lord British' person.

  3. OMFG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I READ THAT AS "FLESHLIGHT"

  4. Oh really. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    with the amount of crashes i got on ultima, fsck going in space on that guys diligent track wreckord

  5. Stupid editors by Death+To+All+Muslims · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You rejected my submission on an insiders view of the next version of Mac OS X for this shit??

    1. Re:Stupid editors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      it was prolly a muslim, you rejected reject

  6. Re:200k by Death+To+All+Muslims · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh do shut up. Your comment was as banal and uninspiring as the article itself.

  7. question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    any way I can play .ogg files in my browser (Camino or Safari) on 10.4.2?

  8. xXx by grumpygrodyguy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Meh, get off the space ship and make us Autoduel II Rich!

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  9. Personal spaceflight won't happen in our lifetimes by kcbrown · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ...on any meaningful scale and of any meaningful kind, at least.

    Modern governments are too interested in power and control over the population to allow people to be able to escape their grasp so easily and permanently.

    Space is the last frontier. Modern governments will want to maintain tight control over who goes there and why, because space potentially goes well beyond their reach.

    That's why I don't think we'll see any meaningful manned presence in space for a long, long time (much longer than a human lifetime, at least), unless it's strictly military or strictly dependent on earth for survival.

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