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    First Spaceport Ever Begins Construction this Friday

    Virgin Galactic Rocket Blasts Off for the First Time

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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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    06/17/09

    @T-Will: I'm cool with anything that looks like a vagina. Including a vagina.
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    Image of Tjoez Tjoez
    05/28/09

    In reply to Virgin Galactic Rocket Blasts Off for the First Time
    I once ate pizza with Sir Richard on my parents boat a few years back. True story :-)
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    Image of xanderbeedle xanderbeedle
    05/28/09

    @Tjoez: I once ate pizza with my parents, and we chatted about Branson... True story :-(
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/28/09

    @xanderbeedle: I once ate a frozen pizza. True story. :(
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    Image of mr_bigglesworth mr_bigglesworth
    05/28/09

    In reply to Virgin Galactic Rocket Blasts Off for the First Time
    2500mph, thats like .7 miles a second! sweet, please say that wasn't a joke, caus thats just AWESOME
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    05/28/09

    @mr_bigglesworth: It's got NOS man!
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    Image of frigg frigg
    05/28/09

    In reply to Virgin Galactic Rocket Blasts Off for the First Time
    I'm not sure any rocket is controllable and can be shut down safely at any time.


    According to NASA, all rockets have a failure rate of 2.5-5% regardless of who builds them or where.


    that said, I'd still ride that thing faster than a pig would ride a roller coaster at an amusement park that someone has sedated and strapped into it, so it really has no choice but to go on the ride. Wait. That's not really the right metaphor.


    OK. I'd ride that thing faster than a pig that is crazy about space travel having spent most of its adult life voyaging throughout the universe would stalk one of the ticketed passengers, sedate them, assume their identity, and use their ticket to get on the damn thing. Yeah. That's the right metaphor.

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    05/28/09

    @frigg: 'According to NASA' being the key part of that phrase.
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    05/28/09

    @xanderbeedle: Sure... but I think the study made the point that regardless of which country or agency built the rocket - NASA, ESA, the Soviets, the Klingons, they all experienced failure. No country was exempt so it was more a measure of the volatility of rockets themselves over the past 50 years than the competency of any one agency, including NASA.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    05/28/09

    In reply to Virgin Galactic Rocket Blasts Off for the First Time
    Really?


    You've got "virgin," "rocket," "Eve," "blast off," "first time," and Sir Richard Branson, and you just leave it all hanging out there?


    What Would Jesus Do, indeed...

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    Image of Lite: hates Illinois Nazis Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
    05/28/09

    In reply to Virgin Galactic Rocket Blasts Off for the First Time
    But will Vin Diesel steal it to mount to his car for the next Fast and Furryless movie?
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    05/28/09

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    You guys really need fix the video player. It won't play for me at all in Safari 4. Can't you use the JW Player or something?
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    05/28/09

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