Blue Origin - Bezos Launch

Live launch...

https://www.blueorigin.com/index

 

This is cool. Hope it goes well.

 

Been waiting for this kind of stuff ever since the XPrize was announced. Can't wait to normalize sub orbital flights and space travel.

 

Lex Luther going to space

 

Looks like a female or I guess some men pleasure device. Also, I dig the 50 foot paint job.

Nice landing. Prime to Space now.

 

I'll never get tired of watching the booster land on the pad. It blows my mind!

 

THAT was pretty awesome!

I was at the Blue Origin factory a couple months ago. We have 2 inspection systems installed in the main factory, and building more at one of their brand new foundrys in the area.

I really was kinda "meh, no big deal" about the whole thing.....right up until I watched that livestream!

I would not have caught it if not for the WERA BBS BABY!!!!.......seriously, I would have missed it.

Thanks OP

 

There's an 18 yo onboard,and it's up to him as the youngest to inform everyone.." You do realize we're riding on a big dick, right?"

 

Amazon delivers sex toys to space now.

Or as @Metalhead would call them.... 'missiles'.

We've come full circle.

 

Congrats to Bezos and Branson both.

 

OK, so somebody explain something to me here.

Are either Branson's or Bezos' effort ever intending to actually put people into orbit, which is something entirely different from a technical perspective than what we saw over the last week? I mean, yes, it's an accomplishment, but this is still really just a really big roller-coaster for the rich at this point, right?

 

That was an expensive 10 minutes !

 

And still the champion:

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-052-DFRC.html

 

Yes, but Bezos has bigger plans. Branson is just doing Six Flags Space.

 

More like Six Million.

 

OK. Yea I looked up some more info on Bozos' business plan for Blue Origin and he's got orbital and even moon-shots apparently in the works.

 

Still begs the question.... for what?

 

Clout, probably.

Where silicon dominated the last 25-30 years, space is again the foremost dick-swinging contest, apparently.