Jeff Bezos' rocket ship

[monkeylizard]

Every major new technology is the play-thing of governments and/or the uber wealthy. These new private space companies are going to reduce the costs by a crap-ton. Remember about 20 years ago it was $20M to hitch a ride on a Soyuz to the ISS at a total cost of around $80M per launch (maybe the Russians still sell seats...don't know). I know it's not a trip to the ISS, but $200-400K gets you to space now on BO or VG. SpaceX cost to orbital flight is around $28M/flight vs the $80M/flight Soyuz.

Give it another 20 years and we might be seeing space tourism attainable for more people than just billionaires. I'm glad to see BO and VG competing for the low orbit stuff and having plans to join SpaceX with higher launches and SpaceX planning for Mars.

[gregintenn]

How much pollution does this tallywhacker produce?

[Grunt67]

2 hours ago, FUJIMO said:

I plan on selling some ammo lumber and tp next panic-demic and snagging a seat

Good idea. Should have some money left over.

[Protongunner]

[mikegideon]

1 hour ago, gregintenn said:

How much pollution does this tallywhacker produce?

Not that much. But, it produces it all at once.

[mikegideon]

28 minutes ago, Protongunner said:

Space dicks

[hipower]

5 hours ago, mikegideon said:

Space dicks

That's entirely too good! Is Bezo's slick, or sick enough...to purposely design it like that? 

Never mind...I must read the entire thread from the start before making a comment.

Edited July 21, 2021 by hipower

[billt]

The only problem I see with this whole thing, is the chute opened.

[Erik88]

I love how Bezos is hated by people all over the political spectrum. 

 

 

[E4 No More]

53 minutes ago, Erik88 said:

I love how Bezos is hated by people all over the political spectrum. 

 

 

My autistic grandson worked for Amazon. He's earned the hate.

[mikegideon]

2 hours ago, Erik88 said:

I love how Bezos is hated by people all over the political spectrum. 

 

 

He's a dick, just like his space ship.

[gregintenn]

4 hours ago, Erik88 said:

I love how Bezos is hated by people all over the political spectrum. 

 

 

He is a uniting figure.

[E4 No More]

5 hours ago, billt said:

The only problem I see with this whole thing, is the chute opened.

That would have taken out 3 other souls with him. The 80-something old woman had a pretty cool history. She was a test pilot of the Mercury Program at age 22. She'd always wanted to go into space but didn't get to go. She mentored other women who piloted the space shuttles. The dick's brother is a firefighter, and the teenager was just some rich kid.

[No_0ne]

I don't think much about Bezos, one way or another, but if I were a billionaire and had the opportunity, I would build and fly a rocket into space, penis shaped or not ...

[Defender]

Saw a clip,of his speech thanking his employees and Amazon customers, then he said they paid for this…I don’t think it came across like he meant it to be…unless he’s more arrogant than I thought.  Shows just how out of touch he is.

[hipower]

On 7/20/2021 at 5:59 PM, gregintenn said:

How much pollution does this tallywhacker produce?

LOL!!