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Virgin Galactic Shows the Finished WhiteKnight Two

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the two-is-one-more-than-one dept.

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."

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  1. Brace for EVE Online jokes by unity100 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    coming in 3, 2, 1 ...

    Richard Branson sets up EVE Online Guild. News at 11.

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    Read radical news here
    1. Re:Brace for EVE Online jokes by Broken+scope · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      They are not guilds, they are corporations.

      Got back to WoW Nub. Can I have your stuff?

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      You mad
  2. Re:slashdotted before first comment! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The site is written in PHP, not .Net.

    How do you know? Anyway, if it is PHP it must be running on a Windows server. Everyone knows the LAMP stack is essentially flawless and capable of handling ~10 million page views per second running on only a Pentium Overdrive 133MHz with 8MB of RAM.

    I wonder why these idiots put Windows on their servers when, for the cost of an SCO license, they could use GNU/Linux. It costs a little more than Windows, but it's worth the extra cash IMO.

  3. Here's the Image by ndnspongebob · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://www.freewebs.com/blackgrail/White%20Knight%202.JPG