/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.3949833]

A Glorified Roller Coaster for the 1%.

The price won't come down because it's a luxury.

This won't start anything because most of the people who can afford a $200,000 ticket have insurance that deems them too valuable, or they realize how stupidly dangerous it is and don't go.

You will never get to fly on one, while a spoiled little kid will, while playing gameboy, with the window shade drawn, complaining the whole time.

Reality General.

[Anonymous No.3949847]

>1%

You're a faggot.

Also, SpaceX is the company to watch, not a suborbital tourism company.

[Anonymous No.3949868]

>>3949833

But... Airplanes were a luxury once! but then the prices came down!

Oh... But they had an overabundance of oil...so they could... and the planes could go to nice tropical and exotic places. Space is nothing but dust and echoes.

I'm sad now.

[tinycat !!qoWPGZQ4oQc No.3949871]

>>3949868
>echoes
>space

wat

[Anonymous No.3949877]

http://www.asylum.com/2010/04/21/internet-will-fail-bold-predictions-that-bombed/

[Anonymous No.3949887]

>>3949877

Want to play a game of example/counterexample? I bet i have more.

>Gee guys, where are all the zeppelins? Didn't people say airships were the future? So much so that the Empire State building was designed with a mooring tower?

>Those mean ol pessimists are always wrong! but where are the zepps?

[Anonymous No.3949922]

>>3949887
>I bet I have more [than 6] examples
>one example

[Anonymous No.3949932]

>>3949922

You post an example of something we've predicted coming true, and i'll post an example of something not coming true.

Where are the flying cars? If you want to look like an idiot you could post one of those ridiculous converti-cars that transforms into a plane.

[Anonymous No.3949951]

>>3949932
you didn't go to my link did you...

[Anonymous No.3949957]

>people build a spaceship
>bitter net troll complains about it

who am i more impressed with?

[Anonymous No.3949963]

>>3949957

It's not a space ship. It doesn't go into space, it doesn't even go into orbit. It's just a ball that they throw up and wait for it to come back down.

It's nothing special, really. and if i had branson's billions, i'd put it to something that saves the lives of the common man, instead of some new rich kid's toy.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3949969]

>>3949963
>wouldn't put money into spaceplane research and development which can then be expanded upon for extremely cheap low Earth orbit flights in the future

[Anonymous No.3949988]

>>3949963
>that saves the lives of the common man
But where's the money in that?

[Anonymous No.3949991]

>>3949969

Because there are problems still to be solved on earth and we can't really waste resources satisfying some geek's interpretation of the future.

How about we get everyone a toilet? How about we get everyone a job? How about we don't waste money on fancy planes that do nothing useful?

[Anonymous No.3950004]

>>3949988

There's no money in space either. Shit, no one who owns a metal company is going to fund space mining, it'd cost way too much and the only thing it would do is crash the entire market when the flood of once-rare metals comes in.

[Anonymous No.3950011]

>>3949991

By going into space we are helping ourselves on Earth. If the Space Race never happened then there would have been no environmental movements

[Anonymous No.3950014]

I hope /sci/ knows who to properly blame.

[Anonymous No.3950022]

OP is correct in one sense; The spaceship in question is only designed for suborbital thrill rides. It does too few trips annually and seats too few to ever become reasonably priced, and there's nowhere in space it's capable of going to with an independent economy that would drive down its cost through trade and passenger transport.

However, what he's wrong about is the notion that there will never be affordable space travel. Space development is a real thing, happening right now, with enormous profit potential. Private industry isn't pursuing it out of philanthropy, they recognize that the kind of power and profit achievable by establishing offworld capital and controlling the supply of space resources to Earth could take them from being small emperors to effectively being gods. If you think there's a wealth gap now, just wait until CEOs and bankers are getting blowjobs from slavegirls on ivory thrones in a subterranean base on Mars while robotic mining operations that employ nobody export valuable metals to Earth, while we'll pay any price as we had long since exhausted our own supplies.

It's not a question of whether or not humans will expand to other worlds. It's a question of which ones. If you're happy with only the wealthiest ever settling the moon and Mars, congrats, at least our longterm survival is ensured; But everyone who stays on Earth will forever remain a serf.

[Anonymous No.3950032]

>>3950014
Why are you constantly trying to make people hate Jews? It isn't funny, if you intend it to be a joke, and it's perverse to try and stoke hatred against an innocent ethnic group for the pleasure of watching them oppressed or killed.

[Anonymous No.3950039]

SpaceShipThree is looking pretty hilarious

[Anonymous No.3950036]

>>3950011

>People argued for years that the world was in trouble, with evidence and studies and figures.

>nobody cares

>someone takes a pretty picture of earth

>suddenly omg we must save it.

You're just proving my point at how stupid people are.

Oh, and we saved the environment thanks to space race? Oh boy, i'm sure the fishermen in the gulf coast will be happy that their catch is no longer contaminated because we landed on the fucking moon.

[Anonymous No.3950046]

>>3950032
>Why are you constantly trying to make people hate Jews?
>hatred against an innocent ethnic group for the pleasure of watching them oppressed or killed
>killed

BAWWW 6 TRILLIONS DIED BAWW BAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW

Go back to reddit, hippie.

[Anonymous No.3950047]

>>3950032
I think it's because the Jews have often been behind a lot of things, if not directly taking the blame for much anything.

Also, by their own religion they are hated by being the Chosen Race of God. Not even the offshoot of Christianity debates that, and everyone is still hating them even now.

[Anonymous No.3950051]

Resonance structures.

Think about it.

[Anonymous No.3950062]

>>3950047
It is also written in the Talmud that the goyim (non-Jews) are "cattle" and sub-human. Combined with Jewish control of various sectors via nepotism, (and the fact that we're literally spending trillions on two wars for Israel), it's not a logical stretch to say that the Jews are an evil and insidious people plotting against anyone who isn't part of the tribe.

[Anonymous No.3950092]

I wouldn't be anti-jew if they didn't whine about things and go about doing the things they whined about others doing. And pretending like Hanukkah is a real holiday.

Hypocrisy thy name is jew.

[Anonymous No.3950116]

>>3949991

>How about we get everyone a toilet?

The africans would just end up worshiping it and staging bloody wars for it's favor.

>How about we get everyone a job?

People get complacent. Suffering breeds contempt, contempt breeds hate, hate breeds business and capitalistic desire to crush opposition.


How about we don't waste money on fancy planes that do nothing useful?

jews

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3950130]

>>3949991
>Because there are problems still to be solved on earth and we can't really waste resources satisfying some geek's interpretation of the future.
False argument, this implies that if all the geek stuff it cut, that the money from that will go to helping people obtain the things you listed. And also, an asteroid mining operation is too expensive TODAY. Technology has to catch up to the idea. Don't write shit off.

[Anonymous No.3950213]

Why must literally every thread be hijacked and ruined by neonazis?

[Anonymous No.3950225]

It's a beautiful plane, powered by a beautifully simply rocket. As Rutan said, when they built this thing they looked into 5 different rocket fuels that NASA had never had the balls to try--and they all worked!

Bottom line: a $200,000 ticket to space is still a factor of a thousand more likely for you to use.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3950546]

>>3950213
I'm unsure if /sci/ has gotten better or worse in the xenophobic/Fox News viewer department since /pol/ was created. I definitely remember it getting shittier when /new/ was erased.

[Anonymous No.3950575]

privatization is the only way forward and will help with the expansion of space travel. NASA will come back before that but if we really want to advance ourselves we need private companies.

[Anonymous No.3950586]

>>3949991

I find it adorable when people suggest that taking away funds for space exploration and science would directly siphon into helping the poor.

The American military budget for air conditioning per year is an upwards of 20 Billion. NASA is recieving little more than that this year alone.

Think on it, and think who's really to blame.

[Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. No.3950589]

>>3950586
Actually they're receiving like 17 billion. So even less.

[Anonymous No.3950603]

>>3950589

It's sickening that the pioneers of the space age are so heavily corrupted in their priorities.