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Virgin Galactic Shows the Finished WhiteKnight Two
Klaus Schmidt writes "Virgin Galactic today unveiled their WhiteKnight Two mothership, called 'EVE.' It is designed to carry the smaller SpaceShip Two into space.
The rollout represents another major milestone in Virgin Galactic's quest to launch the world's first private, environmentally benign, space access system for people, payload and science.
Christened 'EVE' in honor of Richard Branson's mother — Sir Richard performed the official naming ceremony — WK2 is both visually remarkable and represents ground-breaking aerospace technology. It is the world's largest all carbon composite aircraft and many of its component parts have been built using composite materials for the very first time. At 140 ft, the wing span is the longest single carbon composite aviation component ever manufactured."
is this some sort of record?!
The pain was excruciating and the scarring is likely permanent, but that just means it's working.
But wait, I wanted to make the "where's the adorable trash-collecting robot to be its boyfriend" jokes!
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Have you seen Wayne Tech's new Dark Knight? Really impressive.
Well, just think of all of the structural engineering problems with producing a true LEGO space vehicle.
Do we really need modularization on that level?
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Better make sure they have sufficient dreadnought and battleship support with that thing, or it might get ganked.
Because I certainly can't get to it from Earth....
From the silhouettes, I see that WK2 has already shot down a Wright Flier, Bell X-1, and Boeing 747, and NASA Lunar Lander.
Yeah, my first thought was "How many turrets can you fit into that ship ?".
Then "Is there a Gallente version of this ?"
The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.
To pay for a rocket, it would have to be a very rare material. Like plutonium - of course, we already have rockets ready to deliver those in 90 minutes or less!
Or the next one's free?
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