Bezos Blasts Off
 

Today a billionaire one-ups another billionaire. Fascinated by the ability of a reusable launch vehicle after NASA's launch it then splash it technique. That's got to be quite a view from way up there. Still waiting for a private enterprise to achieve manned orbit. No hope for light speed anytime soon tho'.

Boldly going where Alan Shepherd went 60 years ago.

Looks like an E-ticket to this old space groupie. Congrats Bezos.

Donny must be absolutely LIVID with envy, lol. He hates Bezos, who is a real billionaire, and owns the WaPo. :D

Donny created the space cadets thou.....:rolleyes: Ooo yea Space Force!

Bezos is bored.

With plenty of $$$$$!


No need to look at tax rates.....................:eek::rolleyes:

We had the reusable space shuttle but it's been out of service for years. What's noteworthy to me at least is this reusable launch vehicle and capsule and the landing of both on dry land precisely where they wanted them to. I read somewhere, possibly here, that NASA passed on the idea of reusables. Russia's been using dry land landings as SOP all along. Maybe NASA should be taking notes.

I heard on tv yesterday that the future plan would be to have heavy industry take place in space so we could save the earth's environment from pollution.

So, my question would be.... aren't we just spreading our pollution further? I'm no scientist, but, I just don't believe that polluting space could be a good thing.

Maybe we ought to find a way to produce less pollution, eh?

Dont see that happening, except small scale specialized zero G.

Not sure. Main thing it would take is copious amounts of energy. Interestingly, once you're outside the atmosphere, solar energy is copious.

Until a better more efficient propulsion system is discovered space will be just a small niche overall.
This talk of moving industry is just that.

More as weapon advancements.

Much like all the talk about recycling waste materials such as plastics. Then the truth about where most of the plastics go....in the ground because it being to expensive to recycle or lacking the technologies. Or that natural gas is cleaner then coal.

Bezos rocket reminded me of a huge erected penis ready to penetrate a most vulnerable part of our planet just while 40000 people in Germany lost their livelihood because of a catastrophe triggered by the climate change.

Congrats Bezos you ASSHOLE!

Sorry about the German loss.

How is Bezos connected/is at fault?

It's crazy to see all these people acting like it's some fabulous thing that's never been done before. Some of them even highly educated. Like my own brother, a retired General Motors engineer, Bachelor Chemical Engineering, Bachelor Electrical Engineering, MBA and I don't know what else, i think there's two more in something or another. He thinks this was an amazing accomplishment on behalf of Bezos..............

For what? He's a super rich clown who hired a bunch of engineers to build him a supersonic space pecker that would put him, his gold digger of the moment, his brother, an old woman and a kid whose rich dad paid $28 million for the ride just barely into space for a few minutes. Whoopie ding, what a joke. Bezos knows jack chit about space travel himself.

Good. Maybe he'll turn his fancy towards being shot into space rather than getting back into the Whitehouse? I hope so, and I hope he encounters aliens while he's up there..........

And they stick an apple in his Fascist pie hole and roast the fat fuck in an Interstellar Luau.:)

THIS is it!