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Virgin Galactic Crash

Mendonca In Asdas
Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,675
edited November 2014 in Not Sports Related
Test pilot sadly killed today, 70 people signed up to fly into space @ £155k a seat (50 million) is it a vanity project for the rich, or a pioneering glimpse of the future?

http://news.sky.com/story/1364960/virgin-galactic-crash-a-massive-setback

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  • Huskaris
    Huskaris Posts: 9,862
    70 x 155k does not equal 50 million.

  • Mendonca In Asdas
    Mendonca In Asdas Posts: 22,675
    Cheers Husks, I thought their was a fault in the plan, let alone the math!
  • Swisdom
    Swisdom Posts: 14,977
    I know a guy who has his name down to do this - I wonder if he'll rethink now
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,406
    edited November 2014
    Like too many of Branson's schemes this was really another non-starter from the outset. NASA has a budget of billions of dollars, if Branson thought he could do space travel on the cheap he was wrong.
    This crash will end the whole programme. Good publicity for Virgin and Branson for ten long years and now dead in the water, or rather crashed down to earth.
    RIP the test pilot and Branson's glory seeking venture/publicity stunt
  • Folev the red
    Folev the red Posts: 2,087
    I worked with someone who got one of these as his 18th birthday present from his dad. He seemed slightly underwhelmed when I showed him the sony xperia phone I got for mine.
  • IAgree
    IAgree Posts: 1,839
    Lincsaddick said:

    Like too many of Branson's schemes this was really another non-starter from the outset. NASA has a budget of billions of dollars, if Branson thought he could do space travel on the cheap he was wrong.
    This crash will end the whole programme. Good publicity for Virgin and Branson for ten long years and now dead in the water, or rather crashed down to earth.
    RIP the test pilot and Branson's glory seeking venture/publicity stunt

    Yeah he is such a failure that Branson bloke!

    He is pioneering something totally new and I think will succeed.
  • Stig
    Stig Posts: 29,148
    Mendonca In Asdas said:

    ...is it a vanity project for the rich, or a pioneering glimpse of the future?

    Both
  • The_President
    The_President Posts: 14,280
    Maths.
  • C_Jensens_Love_Child
    C_Jensens_Love_Child Posts: 1,598
    Huskaris said:

    70 x 155k does not equal 50 million.

    Yeah but imagine how much one of them mini cans of beer will be? they'll easily break 50 mil

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