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(Post a comment) » SpaceShipOne achieves sub-orbital flightThe first privately-funded rocket craft took off from the Mojave desert and reached an altitude of 62 miles. It burned its rockets for 80 seconds and attained speeds of mach 3. Ok, so it didn't fully leave earth's gravity, but it's a start!
* Image courtesy of Reuters
Future flights in spacecraft based on SpaceShipOne's design will be able to take at least six passengers to 93 miles above the earth, said Rutan, who designed the Voyager airplane that was flown nonstop around the world in 1986 by his brother Dick Rutan and Jeanna Yeager.
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After burning its rocket for about 80 seconds, SpaceShipOne sped up to more than three times the speed of sound and then coasted to its peak altitude, making Melvill weightless.
Melvill said he released a bag of M&Ms chocolates, which "just spun around like little sparkling things."
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VoodooV at 05:29pm 06/22/2004
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geesus, I'm sorry I even brought up warp drive.
will you fags take your physics pillow fight elsewhere please?
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Anonymous at 01:43pm 06/22/2004
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The Afrikans did it first den the japapanesse kopied them.
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Anonymous at 09:51am 06/22/2004
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Well 100 km seems a minor achievement, but when you take in account
the cost 20 million it can be seen as major achievement. Remember
that Michael Jackson paid 23 million in settlement for his previous
child molestion case 1993.
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cray85 at 09:21am 06/22/2004
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just an additional side-note: light doesn't have mass but light (in
terms of its energy) and mass are interchangable (gamma rays with
sufficient energy will produce matter-anti particle pairs).
anyways, current rocket technology is way too obsolete to give
tourists a cheap prolonged experiance in space.... u still need
something like a space shuttle to put a man into proper orbit.
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Anonymous at 09:07am 06/22/2004
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Light does NOT have a mass. It does have energy and momentum. Come
on folks even a high school physics student should know that.
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EyeMaster at 08:52am 06/22/2004
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Space folding so far is not true. The example that is given for
space folding is light being bent around a black hole. Well, light
(photon) has a mass, and that's why it can be bent, trajectory
wise.
I'd like to see a real space bending theory. If anyone has one,
please post it.
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milehigh696 at 08:24am 06/22/2004
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It is nice to see a fight club (one of the greatest films in
history) related post, but I believe the quote should have been
"Planet Starbucks and the Microsoft Galaxy".....
Back on topic mind you it would take a long time to implement this
new technology mainly because of differing national economies, that
and the space shuttle neeeds alot of runway (preferably 10000') and
cleared airspace to land, so not all aerodrome would be able to
accomadate (or be willing to for loss of traffic flow). It'd be a
tricky and lengthy process for this type of flight to transform into
a global travel option
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Anonymous at 12:23am 06/22/2004
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You are only REALLY at "zero gravity" at a legrange point
(or at the edge of the heliotrope). Even then it is only zero
gravity and not out of the effect.
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Anonymous at 12:20am 06/22/2004
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No it wont, the idea of antimatter travel is to make your own anti
matter on the way out. The key is creating anti matter, we already
have the technology to use it (hell its not hard, let it flaot next
to matter really).
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Crazieman at 10:40pm 06/21/2004
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Tours of the solar system, but thats it. It would still take
hundreds of tons of anti-matter to reach Proxima Centauri in a
reasonable amount of time.
The idea of space-folding is an undeveloped and frowned upon theory
unfortunately. It just does not pan out with the current laws of
physics as we know them.
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