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    First Spaceport Ever Begins Construction this Friday

    Virgin Galactic's Spaceport America Gets FAA Green Light
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    Image of Curves Curves
    06/17/09

    In reply to First Spaceport Ever Begins Construction this Friday
    It looks like Far Point......
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    Image of admoseremic admoseremic
    06/17/09

    In reply to First Spaceport Ever Begins Construction this Friday
    I think NASA's launch sites more fully qualify for this title.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    06/17/09

    @admoseremic: Nah, NASA has Launch Facilities. A Spaceport denotes consumer travel.


    Geez I should have been in marketing with the bullshit I can come up with.

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/17/09

    @admoseremic: Hmm. I guess that's right in a way. I was thinking of a "port" to encompass both an entrance and an exit, i.e. it is able to receive and launch vessels. As far as I know, NASA only has launch sites, and uses airports to land the space shuttles (or lets rocket capsules parachute into the ocean). But again, it really depends on definition.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/17/09

    In reply to First Spaceport Ever Begins Construction this Friday
    So how long will it be before the first space sherry?


    Wow, the bad jokes keep coming today...

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    Image of laffmakr laffmakr
    06/17/09

    In reply to First Spaceport Ever Begins Construction this Friday
    What?! No Starbucks yet?!
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    06/17/09

    @laffmakr: It's there, but this one is actually run by Starbuck. And it does not accept Starbucks cards.
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    Image of EBone EBone
    06/17/09

    In reply to First Spaceport Ever Begins Construction this Friday
    "First spaceport ever..."


    On Earth, that is.

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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    06/17/09

    In reply to First Spaceport Ever Begins Construction this Friday
    Jesus, you know as well as I do that the stuff dreams are made of look like vaginas no matter where you are standing.
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    06/17/09

    or not standing, as the case may be.
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    06/17/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Not vaginas. Usually they look like the back of a girl's head.


    ...And don't knock it...

    (yeah, that's done)

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/17/09

    In reply to First Spaceport Ever Begins Construction this Friday
    But more seriously, would anyone care to summarize the operational differences between this and a regular airport?
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    Image of robinandtami robinandtami
    06/17/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Air. Space. Different.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/17/09

    @robinandtami: I mean, it seems like this is just a runway and hangars. Virgin White Knight could probably operate from any airport. Is there special equipment that qualifies this as a "space" port, or is it called that just because they decided to only let space vehicles use it?
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    06/17/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Well, for one, you need an entirely different system for customs. Most aliens won't bother to use our system of passports and the like. You really haven't thought this through, have you?
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    Image of AEchinoderm AEchinoderm
    06/17/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: For now, the Spaceport needs no baggage handling system (because passengers aren't going anywhere but right back to the spaceport), no customs (because passengers aren't going anywhere but right back to the spaceport), no catering service facilities (because passengers aren't going anywhere but right back to the spaceport in about half an hour), no duty free shops (because passengers aren't going anywhere but right back to the spaceport, so they don't qualify for duty-free shopping)... Basically, all that it needs is hangars, a runway, a parking lot for limousines and a coffee cart so the limo drivers have something to do while the 'space tourists' blow the equivalent to four years of college in half an hour.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/17/09

    Thanks guys. Interesting stuff.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/17/09

    In reply to First Spaceport Ever Begins Construction this Friday
    Does it have a Cantina?
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    06/17/09

    @Hello Mister Walrus: Yes, but unlike others, which might be a wretched hive of scum and villiany, this one is actually quite nice. The barkeep is Queeznak. He makes a great space-old-fashioned.
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    Image of victorkruger victorkruger
    06/17/09

    In reply to First Spaceport Ever Begins Construction this Friday
    when i read first spaceport i thought it was actually going to be in outer space. this is nothing but a glorified airport.
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    06/17/09

    @victorkruger: What you want is a space station.
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    Image of T-Will T-Will
    06/17/09

    @Badhatharry: A space station that looks like a vagina?
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    Image of badhatharry badhatharry
    06/17/09

    @T-Will: I'm cool with anything that looks like a vagina. Including a vagina.
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    Image of SGTalon SGTalon
    12/18/08

    In reply to Virgin Galactic's Spaceport America Gets FAA Green Light
    Word is that the $200,000 that it costs to take a flight into space includes a week of training before you go. So a big facility like that is a good idea.


    Rutan's original idea was to have the spaceport in a place like Key West or the Bahamas or Fiji. Bring the whole family while you are in training they are on the beach.


    Because you KNOW that every wife on the planet is rolling her eyes at her hubby as soon as he mentions "space"

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    Image of snoop-blog snoop-blog
    12/18/08

    @SGTalon: Word!
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    Image of sir_pantsalot sir_pantsalot
    12/18/08

    @SGTalon: My wife rolls her eyes every time I mention one of those private submarines. She punches me for mentioning space travel.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    12/18/08

    In reply to Virgin Galactic's Spaceport America Gets FAA Green Light
    All this and your luggage will still get lost in a Black Hole somewhere...
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    Image of fsusmithc2 fsusmithc2
    12/18/08

    In reply to Virgin Galactic's Spaceport America Gets FAA Green Light
    Just imagine something like 50 years from now or so when we look back and say "remember how these guys started?" Good times. Too bad nobody can afford it.
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    12/18/08

    @fsusmithc2: Looking back 50 years from now will probably be about the only thing I can afford....
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    12/18/08

    In reply to Virgin Galactic's Spaceport America Gets FAA Green Light
    wait are those glass floors? Hellllooooo Ladies!
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    Image of Odomzig Odomzig
    12/18/08

    In reply to Virgin Galactic's Spaceport America Gets FAA Green Light
    Are they really going to have enough people who can afford to fly on these things to make a big spaceport with gates necessary? I bet they'll probably only have like one or two flights per day at most.
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    12/18/08

    @Odomzig: Luckily this thing has a built-in alternate use as an airport.
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    12/18/08

    In reply to Virgin Galactic's Spaceport America Gets FAA Green Light
    If I won a million today, I would spend it all for a ride to space tomorrow.
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    Image of soccer1105 soccer1105
    12/18/08

    @snoop-blog: Or you could invest it in Virgin Galactic, possibly make a killing, and take all the rides into space your heart desires.
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    Image of BEERxTaco BEERxTaco
    12/18/08

    @soccer1105: Or you live comfortably for the rest of your life. That's what I would do.
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    Image of snoop-blog snoop-blog
    12/18/08

    @BEERxTaco: Yeah but what if I died 3 days after I won. Life is short. My point was that if I ever had a chance to go to space, even if it costed me everything I had (monetarily) I would totally do it without looking back.
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    Image of T-Will T-Will
    12/18/08

    @snoop-blog: If you died 3 days after winning a million dollars, you probably wouldn't care much about what you had done on earth.
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    12/18/08

    @T-Will: How would you know? Maybe I'd get take my memories with us. I think most people hope for that.
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    12/18/08

    @snoop-blog: Peple just weren't thinking you could make such a deep comment. The Hellooo ladies comment a few down probably doesn't help things.
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    Image of snoop-blog snoop-blog
    12/18/08

    @ceilingFANBOY: I'm sure Socrates and Plato knew how to appreciate a woman's figure. When it comes to space, everything is deep. No seriously I took astronomy in a planetarium for a semester and it was awesome.
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