They need to have a roll of cord that connects to the passenger and the seat. If something go's wrong, the cords will automatically "reil" the passengers back into their seats and lock.
"A big solar event during one of those early moon missions could have been catastrophic," said Cary Zeitlin, a radiation expert at the National Space Biomedical Research Institute at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. "The risk was known. They gambled a bit."
I don't think Richard Branson realizes the spiritual ramifications of sending people into Space outside the planet's atmosphere & it's associated dangers! Spiritual battles do exist up there & are conducted for the lives of people on earth whom God loves but the Devil hates! It's an age old story! See Ufo swarms. You may say how do you know, & of course I know better but I say: do you really? Are you an expert? You will be if you seek more information.. Google Activated Magazine
I can't believe this is going to be possible in my lifetime....I do believe I will work my butt off to one day be able to afford to do this. To me, this is even more magnificent an achievement by humanity to allow the masses to be able to experience space travel, and not just a select few chosen by the government. The founding fathers would be proud!!!
@crusaderpat soooo ,,, Virgin is British owned , that doesnt mean America built 100% of it . Space ship two is still British and mabye 40% American. So its not American.
@kirza94 your absolutely right. its not 100% American built. Its the visions of one man(british), built and designed by scaled composites(owned by northrop grumman). It is a true multinational spacecraft. It just shows what people are capable of if the govt. doesnt get in the way.
@kirza94 Yeah...I'm British studying in an American University. When you combine the British and American mentalities (both great in their own unique way) something wonderful happens. More of this type of stuff should happen between ALL nations. :)
the nearest earth like planet is somthing like 11 light years away...... we think. we wont be etting there any time soon. to explore more on this topic, i suggest you read the novel 'Ark" by Stephen Baxter.
The only way to travel to other realms in Space aboard spacecraft is through the door of the spirit where leaps to other planets occur often in the real world beyond this life. It's on hand to e-mail to anyone who requests it titled Journey to Tricon!
It's a dream by Daniel R.
His body slept, while he departed through space to planet Tricon.
Dan is an avid Christian author & instructor well traveled & educated. --An amazing account of life beyond our planet! Check it out/
Sheer genius! We need to have a toy of this ship on the market to help add finance to the project and because me and my little boy want a toy of this ship really, really badly to play with! :)
@RowanEvans123 That is essentially just a solar-powered airship. We can't get enough power into a car through photovoltaics yet you want to send a rocket into space with one? And no, there are no practical cells that exist today. And no, you can't fly on a theoretical cell.
Could someone Buy Me a ticket please...I need to beat my brother Andre into space...I want to be the very first in history to be a Real Smart Dumbass in Space..
As long as i don't have to wear a diper and drive to FL...
The privite sector must go into space, so that we can stop fighting and killing each other, stop worring about over population, and develope new everything our futureis beyond lies the Earth. The earth is just a cradle for us, but like must children we grow up, and leave home and move out on our own ans start a new life in space, on other moons, planets, and space stations as we exstend our reach beyond!!!
If this is a mockup of the real trip it looks pointless and silly. All that effort to simply look at the Earth for 3 minutes and do somersaults? It seems like an amusement park ride.
If it were up to Nasa it would take another 50 years before we are able to get out there. I have been waiting for us to gather asteroids so that we can us them as resource satellites, why use up all the the resourcs on our planet when there are thousands of asteroids just outside of Mars Orbital plane , and outside of our slar system! Ans this is why i think it is funny that in Avatar it has we humans going to another planet to rape it for it's resources!
The bottom line is that it all comes down to money, lots of money that just isn't there. (The money needed for such a task would greatly exceed the budget NASA had even during the Apollo era.)
NASA is limited only by the amount of money they receive (which is at an all time low).
Also Space Ship Two's flights will culminate to just a few minutes in sub-earth orbit, all for a price tag of $200,000 a ticket.
The Price will come down, like everything that we do, when people use it demand goes up the price will drecrese because more companies will want to provide the same service. The way that the companies can make money it to mine astroids, plus they can build hotels on them too! I would never want to fly with Nasa is is the most exspensive ride on the planet at $10,000 per pound, no one can afford that! I hope we will build our moon base in the next 10 years!
The price for Space Ship Two's flight may go down, but what about when Virgin develops a craft that goes farther into space? The price will go right up again. Space travel will never be cheap for the foreseeable future.
Also I don't know why people are comparing Virgin Galactic to NASA. NASA is a scientific institution not a cruise line. NASA doesn't mind though if some rich guy is willing to pay 6 million to tag along for a mission (the money will just alleviate mission cost after all.)
How much are we giving to other countries as foreign aid?,With half of that we could be going out of the cradle by next decade,Isn`t money it is greed and BS
@proverb311031 Do you have any idea how much time and energy it would take to get a random asteroid in a stable orbit around Earth? By the time you reached your goal, you will have wasted any and all use for that one asteroid. In addition, let's not for get the fact that any of those asteroids' orbits could decay from the slightest miscalculation, and then we all get vaporized in a blinding shockwave. Brilliant idea.
I agree, that is one view on this topic but pls dont forget: Why do we need that resources? Because of us using almost every resource in an unbelievable inefficient way. Look around your room - what is made out of plastic? Now for this plastic we use the same oil we burn everyday to drive etc. we BURN it = we take this molecules apart and spread them over the whole globe as CO2. This is really wasting resources. I think we should spend money on that before flying to the space!
@DonPohlino We should use solar wind-turbines, wave and tidal to produce hydrogen gas, for the times when the sun is not up, or the wind does not blow, we have had the technology for over 30 years to do this, but the oil and natural gas lobbies have swindle the American people over those 30 years. And now China is taking our hard work and putting it to use to free themselves from Middle East oil, you have to ask the question what the heck are we doing here in the U.S., and us batteries too
true! your solutions + intelligent harvesting of plants (eg algae maybe bamboo) should be the solution of our energy (!) problems. Energy problems and no resource problems, because the resources were using right now are just 1 solution to satisfy the energy need.
Unfortunately taking resources from asteroids doesnt solve the problem. To close the carbon cycle we need to use energy found in our discrete system of the earth WITHOUT bringing in carbon from somewhere else (oil, gas)
@DonPohlino On Planets in our solar system there is plenty of energy to be had, and in many cases it does not have to be processed many planets have liquid fuels and other resources that we can access. Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen with a quarter of its mass being helium. Neptune is hydrogen and helium. Uranus is hydrogen and helium, some planets have liquid methane we have the answer to our gaining a foothold in space and maybe stop many of our resource wars but the corps love war.
@proverb311031 I'm amazed at how clueless people are sometimes... the reason why we don't harvest all those asteroids is that it would take an incredible amount of energy just to get there, let alone bring all those "resources" back to Earth. Transportation costs just to LEO are phenomenal, let alone beyond. It's simply not practical. There's a reason why the first projects are human tourists... relatively speaking, the cargo is small and light, yet highly valuable, compared to tons of ore.
@proverb311031 Interesting...however its about energy deficit...how much it will cost to manufacture it or extract it from local as opposed to distant locations. After all it is called 'Unobtainium' in the film. Processes in space may take billions of years and unimaginable amounts of energy to create certain substances. I think this is the thinking behind the film. Cameron did consult a lot of scientists when making the film. He may be mocking the current human mentality a bit too, with oil.
@ogicabp4u Just for info sake: Unobtainium is the default name for the unknown, un-named high in value resource. They use that name in many films and documentaries to explain such a mineral.
@proverb311031 I know right! You should become friends with "Vise357" on here... He is my dad, and you basically wrote the same words he prob. would have wrote! Write back to me if you do not know how to get to his channel.
it costed us billions of dollars and decades to make the ISS, for the sole purpose of surviving and do some laboratory tests in space. Laboratory tests that seemed to really change the way we live.
Near earth asteroids are a couple of 10times larger then the ISS. And all of those asterois are in high earth orbit or also known as at the geosynchronous orbit or beyond. Or atleast more then 35300km. The ISS orbits at 330-360km. There are no house or cabin sized asterois on tht
altitude. Im completely sure that future space colonist and strategists will make full use of the natural sattelites (near earth asteroids) and the moon to ofcourse to plant our first houses and factories.
We havent used this as a strategy yet because it isnt yet a strategy. It will be but it isnt.
We took decades and trillion dollars over time to accomplish to build a small lab in LEO.
Not to mention to build a greater lab in order to pack the surface area of a asteroid
which natural orbit is atleast 10times higher then the iss is, means you also need alot more fuel for the same kg that you put the iss with in low earth orbit.
As for the avatar scenario. Its very fake. There are indeed enough resources in space.
In space theyre even easier to prospect and gather. You dont have to dig a mile underground and although objects may have weight theyre much easier to move or transport in a weightless environment.
In fact, once spacetravel becomes routine, all resource industries will be in space looking for asteroids, rather then digging on the surface of their home planet which would be insufficient compared to getting resources in space.
What is the mater? you fat? you need to be in shape to go up there anyways. Suits need to be small because there are going to be a number of people in a tight compartment.
I'm no "privatization" freak. Lets face it, some things are just not moral to privatize. That being said, space is the perfect place for private enterprise! Of course the need for some cultural monitoring will be needed till we evolve a step or three more, but the riches present in space can really make life on earth a lot better for all of mankind.
@cobolt13 yes I want to get away from certain kinds of people who live here like the ones doped up so badly they kill you for 5.00 or the kinds who will kill you for things written in the Koran, and many others like that! It would be nice to be on a fresh green new peaceful world, leaving all of them behind here!
@jasong19711 What is the 'Subject' we are discussing.As i recall there was never one started,Thus providing me with the answer and the conclusion that you are,a,Retard.
@jasong19711 Have 3 kids thank you.ones studying law right now,The other one is 12 and 8,Don't go there.As for you, I can see you are unable to use what god gave you,You must be extremely stupid/American.Or was chemically castrated. Otherwise you wouldn't be such a fucked up sounding individual.
@jasong19711 In your eye's it's soiling,In my eye's it's re-populating intelligence,And thus proves to me that your ' kind ' frown upon such a act,So go hit your kids on the head to dumb down what is left of your spilt-over brain mass.
Yes 3 minutes, due to the enormous risks and high costs of steller travel and the rotation of the earth. If you wanted an hour there would be far more complications and therefore much higher costs, unless geo-stationery orbit can be achieved which of course costs money too. By five minutes you could be easily end up in another country without authorisation, the legal ramifications of which also cost money to the individual and Virgin Galactic. That's just my view anyway. :)
I think it's because it provides a feeling of infinite freedom, also we are not supposed to be alble to do that so maybe it's like saying "no" to children, they want to do it even more.
A lot of us have a fear of flying, a lot of us would love to see as much money and effort put into exploring the sea. Me... I personally like like both so why not build a rocket that's also a submarine... eh?
Because if the earth gets hit by a cataclysmic asteroid, there will be nowhere to go. People can't survive forever underwater, but evidence suggest extra-terrestrial resources could be life sustaining, at least for those lucky enough to get there.
You're a smart kid, but North Korea was a joke, a bad analogy if you will... But they don't shoot things in space down with "AA" weapons they use ICBMs that North Korea recently successfully tested.
I have a question. Why argue this on Youtube? Argue this face to face and verify each other's credentials. Any moron can voice an opinion or be an agitator here (mine included). I could tell you that if you launched this thing and if flew over North Korea it would be shot down because they thought it was a missile, and people would believe that.
That's great! Personally, I'd love to see something like this! It's out-of-the-box thinking like this that drives the creation of new technology and exploration. You never know what may become of this! Personally, I wouldn't pitch it to an organization like NASA. I would pitch it to a Branson, or SpaceX and Elon Musk.
Chuck your idea at nasa, or virgin. It seems virgin are more interested in the environment, and Sir Branson is always looking for a good edge. Good luck
So long as they can prove they wrote their idea BEFORE it actualy passes, it doesnt matter if it gets passed or not, they still have poof that they came up with the idea before legal action was allowable.
If you knew what you were on about youd know that so long as it is PENDING and not fully copywritten then your idea is open to copying. Someone can write your idea down as their own, and so long as they have proof that it was written BEFORE your patent is passed then you cannot sue them. Understand?
Well Mr buzzkilington by telling us it is patent PENDING allows for room of copywrite, so long as the idea presented is writen down with proof BEFORE the patent is granted.
just wondering is there a duty free bar/ trolley, (am i aloud to get spaced out), any on flight entertainment, also is there any steward jobs going cheers bradson speak soon
Count me in!! Once Im done with the military, Im going to Embry Riddle for pilot training. I figure by the time I have all the requirements met, I can fly for this company!!
Oh and just incase you got confused by colonisation i do not mean open air living and terraforming of planets you idiot, u can live on a plaet without it being earth like. I was talking about fully airtight colonies, mainly research ones that exist in the zero grvity elements of the moon and other planets. Ones cut off from the vacuum. Is that so hard to beleive? That we can colonise a planet using fully airtight buildings like the space ships?
Wow, I'd really like to go on a thing like that. I guess it would be a little scary, but it would be fun. My question is, why is the frontal landing gear a ski-thingie? Shouldn't it be a wheel like the others?
i HOPE it is too expensive for most people. .. If everyone was pointlessly jetting off to space just for a view and a few minutes of zero G then there would be real problems for the environment and people's safety. Besides, most people just think it is 'cool' instead of considering the damatic implications of their space travel - it is a BIG deal, not your average holiday.
your wrong on the enviroment thing, they use reusable fuel cells so it doesn't pollute the enviroment a lot (unlike china >_>) and yes it IS expensive it's 200,000 united states dollars per person to fly up there, and it is safe.
fuel cells.....!!!??? wtf...?? this think needs a giant rocket to go up there... they can never found this power from fuel cells..... this is not a honda civic...!! the guy (dzoneisahero) is right....
Actually, the Space Shuttle uses fuel cells for most of its power. Not its liftoff power, that comes from the rockets. But SpaceShip2 will be carried up by WhiteKnight2, taking off like a plane. So using fuel cells might be plausible.
Also when the spaceport is built hey plan to have one flight per week. Eventualy the price will drop to say, a fortnight in teh carribean? Iv always wondered what the earth actualy looked like in real life. As iv seen pictures of mountains but when i went to the alpes i was mezmarized by the collosal size of it in real life. Id certainly soak up this experience, its every humans right to get off this planet we have ben on for 1000s of years.
I hope some other rich companies (Google) will also offer space trips so that the price will reduce to $5000 by the end of 2040. Competition is very good for space technologies. We will have better, safer and more environmentfriendly space stations, rockets, and space suits from which the NASA can benefit. This will cause a reduction of the costs for the NASA and a boom in the space industry, too.
Exactly, and we can finaly get to playing out a big idea of ours, the colonisation of the solar system. After all, i think nasa said they were building something which could be placed on the moon sa a perminent colonial structure. So its all good!
There will never be enough money to colonise the solar system. Will take at least another 1000 years to be financially feasable and another 10,000 years before we get anywhere with terraforming. By then humans will have killed each other off. Forget your bull-shit pipe dreams. We ain't going nowhere.
Its not bull shit, it will happen eventualy. Plus as iv said before NASA are already building the first building for a permanent base on the moon, a self reliant one would you beleive. And the fact that it is near completion within the next 10 years or so is good. It will path the way for the colonisation of the moon. I mean look how far weve come in just say 50 years tech wise, where speeding up. Things are gunna happen alot faster than you expect.
And if the moon can begin colonisation in about 10 years or so itll be only around 100 years before other places are being looked at for resources, i mean look how far weve come in 50 years as iv said, think of how far well go in 100 years! So its not bull shit if nasa is already thinking about it, it will be done eventualy.
Having an airborne launch facility at that scale is definitely not free. Plus the reduction in drag and starting speed is trivial compared to orbital speeds. The most fuel costly part is not getting off the ground, it's accelerating to ~7600m/s LEO speed.
Plus, you need LIQUID oxygen and hydrogen for the most efficient fuel, there's no way you're going to make that on a balloon.
Putting a fuel plant near a launch site might save costs, but not what you're proposing.
Neither electrolysis nor balloon launched spacecraft are new ideas. Balloon borne electrolysis facilities launching spacecraft is perhaps a new idea, but not an invention.
Just because nobody's tried it doesn't mean it's inventive. There have been thousands of perfectly sound proposals and developments for spaceflight that have gone nowhere due to budget cuts, cancellations, whatever. Space exploration is expensive, not everything gets a chance to be tried.
Helium doesn't lift very much, and is very expensive. Hydrogen is cheaper and lifts more, but it still isn't easy to lift heavy payloads high in the atmosphere. An airship as you described would have to be on the scale of Hindenburg, and significantly more advanced, and then you have a lot of structural problems. There's a big difference between a weather balloon and the kind of sky palace you describe.
Balloons and airships aren't very good at carrying heavy payloads like solar panels, water tanks, and spacecraft. While balloon launched spacecraft are an interesting concept, whether or not they are practical is up for debate.
But that isn't even a practical method! Sure, solar powered electrolysis is one way to produce O2 and H2, but putting an electrolysis facility on a balloon won't do anything for space travel.
finaly this thing is coming out now for any one who wants two pay 200 thousand dollars for 5 minutes of space
givinmegold 1 month ago
@givinmegold Another company offers 15 minutes for 75k Euros but I think also only 5 of those are in actual space the rest is low g not 0 g
athriaxo 1 month ago
200.000 $ for a ticket
MaxDamage19844 3 months ago
@MaxDamage19844 for someone who can aford it, i think its totally worth it ^^
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They need to have a roll of cord that connects to the passenger and the seat. If something go's wrong, the cords will automatically "reil" the passengers back into their seats and lock.
Viz731 9 months ago
you can call it space becoz there are not almost oxigen to that height, but is just fall with style :)
You get 0 gravity becoz you are falling, but is not a true orbit.
AngelLestat2 9 months ago
So how many G's do the people on board experience when the space ship accelerates upwards.
behnamasid 9 months ago
How freaking awesome is this vedeo!!!! =D
void15 9 months ago
This is great, its a pity the islam scum is trying to destroy the world
stevearriva 11 months ago
I bet it's made in China.
BassmentGhost 1 year ago 6
@BassmentGhost no made in haiti
kaleenmar 1 year ago
"A big solar event during one of those early moon missions could have been catastrophic," said Cary Zeitlin, a radiation expert at the National Space Biomedical Research Institute at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. "The risk was known. They gambled a bit."
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I don't think Richard Branson realizes the spiritual ramifications of sending people into Space outside the planet's atmosphere & it's associated dangers! Spiritual battles do exist up there & are conducted for the lives of people on earth whom God loves but the Devil hates! It's an age old story! See Ufo swarms. You may say how do you know, & of course I know better but I say: do you really? Are you an expert? You will be if you seek more information.. Google Activated Magazine
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arch37 1 year ago
I have a hard time getting my sprinkler to point right...
theflop 1 year ago
I can't believe this is going to be possible in my lifetime....I do believe I will work my butt off to one day be able to afford to do this. To me, this is even more magnificent an achievement by humanity to allow the masses to be able to experience space travel, and not just a select few chosen by the government. The founding fathers would be proud!!!
indyracingnut 1 year ago
ah it will be the finest British invention , thanks Richard Branson :D
kirza94 1 year ago
@kirza94 buddy, it was designed and built by scaled composites, which is a Californian based company.
crusaderpat 1 year ago
@crusaderpat soooo ,,, Virgin is British owned , that doesnt mean America built 100% of it . Space ship two is still British and mabye 40% American. So its not American.
kirza94 1 year ago
@kirza94 your absolutely right. its not 100% American built. Its the visions of one man(british), built and designed by scaled composites(owned by northrop grumman). It is a true multinational spacecraft. It just shows what people are capable of if the govt. doesnt get in the way.
crusaderpat 1 year ago
@crusaderpat i agree . a brilliant British and American thing.
kirza94 1 year ago
@kirza94 Yeah...I'm British studying in an American University. When you combine the British and American mentalities (both great in their own unique way) something wonderful happens. More of this type of stuff should happen between ALL nations. :)
ogicabp4u 1 year ago
@ogicabp4u i agree when great nations come together something like this is made.
kirza94 1 year ago
I love this concept, and it would be super facinating, but wouldn't it be cool to take it further and suggest InterPlanetery or InterGalatic Travel?
usaTrini 1 year ago
I absolutely love this video ;-)
oreoweb6 1 year ago
the nearest earth like planet is somthing like 11 light years away...... we think. we wont be etting there any time soon. to explore more on this topic, i suggest you read the novel 'Ark" by Stephen Baxter.
frenchman6297 1 year ago
COOL well made.
darian1968 1 year ago
Passengers are asked to fold their trays into the upright position and keep their feet off the ceiling.
divisioneight 1 year ago
Commercial travel to space will be happening in 2013 on the caribbean island of CURACAO. Google caribbean spaceport experience...
23Tumelon 1 year ago
The only way to travel to other realms in Space aboard spacecraft is through the door of the spirit where leaps to other planets occur often in the real world beyond this life. It's on hand to e-mail to anyone who requests it titled Journey to Tricon!
It's a dream by Daniel R.
His body slept, while he departed through space to planet Tricon.
Dan is an avid Christian author & instructor well traveled & educated. --An amazing account of life beyond our planet! Check it out/
arch37 1 year ago
@arch37 the fact that he is christian kinda contradict the fact that he is well educated ^^
soulextracter 1 year ago
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arch37 1 year ago
So the final frontier is getting closer :)
mjolnir1981 1 year ago
I can just picture Brig and Lita Hart doing the "hang loose" sign to us from space.
Go MonaVie!!!
robertinhousa 1 year ago
wikked!!!!!
porsalainheart 1 year ago
Sheer genius! We need to have a toy of this ship on the market to help add finance to the project and because me and my little boy want a toy of this ship really, really badly to play with! :)
straker2 1 year ago
@RowanEvans123 That is essentially just a solar-powered airship. We can't get enough power into a car through photovoltaics yet you want to send a rocket into space with one? And no, there are no practical cells that exist today. And no, you can't fly on a theoretical cell.
aguleria 1 year ago
Could someone Buy Me a ticket please...I need to beat my brother Andre into space...I want to be the very first in history to be a Real Smart Dumbass in Space..
As long as i don't have to wear a diper and drive to FL...
holysmoke721 1 year ago
Space ship two looks like a real shuttle. This is the beginning of space tourism. Thank you Virgin Galactic!
Sparmi1 1 year ago
Well soon this small company will build a Shuttle able to face a real atmosphere reentering, and travel to the Fuckin Moon monthly
shame on You NASA...
PleasureTV 1 year ago
I'll GLADLY VOLUNTEER !
JBME 1 year ago
I found this lastnite and i think ive watched it 30 times now...ITS SOOO COOL! THANK YOU FOR POSTING!
kingpinlwf 2 years ago
lol cool
simbathewildcat 2 years ago
I'd give up my wife and kids just for one trip. :D
THEganjamatt 2 years ago
How do they navigate that thing back down?
thetrast 2 years ago
magic
breakwings 2 years ago
they just glide down
grengerx 2 years ago
same way they naavegate all other aircraft.
5819946198 2 years ago
The privite sector must go into space, so that we can stop fighting and killing each other, stop worring about over population, and develope new everything our futureis beyond lies the Earth. The earth is just a cradle for us, but like must children we grow up, and leave home and move out on our own ans start a new life in space, on other moons, planets, and space stations as we exstend our reach beyond!!!
proverb311031 2 years ago 5
A $ 200,000 ticket for a flight that barley reaches sub earth orbit for a few minutes is preposterous.
18CaStRaDoMiS89 2 years ago
@18CaStRaDoMiS89 if you happen to be a wealthy doctor with a bit of extra cash, it's money well spent ;)
chevezez 2 years ago
Branson has a vision, and it's people like him that can drive things forward.
I wish him all the best and if this thing takes off, no pun intended, then people will realise there is major money to be made in this field.
tannagra 2 years ago 3
huh people are going to wear Daft Punk helmets XD lol
donatp93 2 years ago
If this is a mockup of the real trip it looks pointless and silly. All that effort to simply look at the Earth for 3 minutes and do somersaults? It seems like an amusement park ride.
Bobde1234 2 years ago
it is an amusement park ride, just alot more expensive. its going to be decades before we actually have real commercial space travel.
MASSIF101 2 years ago
If it were up to Nasa it would take another 50 years before we are able to get out there. I have been waiting for us to gather asteroids so that we can us them as resource satellites, why use up all the the resourcs on our planet when there are thousands of asteroids just outside of Mars Orbital plane , and outside of our slar system! Ans this is why i think it is funny that in Avatar it has we humans going to another planet to rape it for it's resources!
proverb311031 2 years ago 16
The bottom line is that it all comes down to money, lots of money that just isn't there. (The money needed for such a task would greatly exceed the budget NASA had even during the Apollo era.)
NASA is limited only by the amount of money they receive (which is at an all time low).
Also Space Ship Two's flights will culminate to just a few minutes in sub-earth orbit, all for a price tag of $200,000 a ticket.
18CaStRaDoMiS89 2 years ago
The Price will come down, like everything that we do, when people use it demand goes up the price will drecrese because more companies will want to provide the same service. The way that the companies can make money it to mine astroids, plus they can build hotels on them too! I would never want to fly with Nasa is is the most exspensive ride on the planet at $10,000 per pound, no one can afford that! I hope we will build our moon base in the next 10 years!
proverb311031 2 years ago
The price for Space Ship Two's flight may go down, but what about when Virgin develops a craft that goes farther into space? The price will go right up again. Space travel will never be cheap for the foreseeable future.
Also I don't know why people are comparing Virgin Galactic to NASA. NASA is a scientific institution not a cruise line. NASA doesn't mind though if some rich guy is willing to pay 6 million to tag along for a mission (the money will just alleviate mission cost after all.)
18CaStRaDoMiS89 2 years ago
How much are we giving to other countries as foreign aid?,With half of that we could be going out of the cradle by next decade,Isn`t money it is greed and BS
grengerx 2 years ago
@grengerx lol im sure u wouldnt turn down a trip like this if it was offered to you
chevezez 2 years ago
@proverb311031 Do you have any idea how much time and energy it would take to get a random asteroid in a stable orbit around Earth? By the time you reached your goal, you will have wasted any and all use for that one asteroid. In addition, let's not for get the fact that any of those asteroids' orbits could decay from the slightest miscalculation, and then we all get vaporized in a blinding shockwave. Brilliant idea.
MelkorHimself 1 year ago
@proverb311031
I agree, that is one view on this topic but pls dont forget: Why do we need that resources? Because of us using almost every resource in an unbelievable inefficient way. Look around your room - what is made out of plastic? Now for this plastic we use the same oil we burn everyday to drive etc. we BURN it = we take this molecules apart and spread them over the whole globe as CO2. This is really wasting resources. I think we should spend money on that before flying to the space!
DonPohlino 1 year ago
@DonPohlino We should use solar wind-turbines, wave and tidal to produce hydrogen gas, for the times when the sun is not up, or the wind does not blow, we have had the technology for over 30 years to do this, but the oil and natural gas lobbies have swindle the American people over those 30 years. And now China is taking our hard work and putting it to use to free themselves from Middle East oil, you have to ask the question what the heck are we doing here in the U.S., and us batteries too
proverb311031 1 year ago
@proverb311031
true! your solutions + intelligent harvesting of plants (eg algae maybe bamboo) should be the solution of our energy (!) problems. Energy problems and no resource problems, because the resources were using right now are just 1 solution to satisfy the energy need.
Unfortunately taking resources from asteroids doesnt solve the problem. To close the carbon cycle we need to use energy found in our discrete system of the earth WITHOUT bringing in carbon from somewhere else (oil, gas)
DonPohlino 1 year ago
@DonPohlino On Planets in our solar system there is plenty of energy to be had, and in many cases it does not have to be processed many planets have liquid fuels and other resources that we can access. Jupiter is primarily composed of hydrogen with a quarter of its mass being helium. Neptune is hydrogen and helium. Uranus is hydrogen and helium, some planets have liquid methane we have the answer to our gaining a foothold in space and maybe stop many of our resource wars but the corps love war.
proverb311031 1 year ago
@proverb311031 I'm amazed at how clueless people are sometimes... the reason why we don't harvest all those asteroids is that it would take an incredible amount of energy just to get there, let alone bring all those "resources" back to Earth. Transportation costs just to LEO are phenomenal, let alone beyond. It's simply not practical. There's a reason why the first projects are human tourists... relatively speaking, the cargo is small and light, yet highly valuable, compared to tons of ore.
kaleyraven 1 year ago
and of course YOU use no resources at all huh???
jasong19711 1 year ago
@proverb311031 JUST COS ITS NOT EARTH DOESNT MEANS ITS GOT A MILLION ASTEROIDS FLOATING ROUND IT
sketchupto3drad 1 year ago
@proverb311031 Interesting...however its about energy deficit...how much it will cost to manufacture it or extract it from local as opposed to distant locations. After all it is called 'Unobtainium' in the film. Processes in space may take billions of years and unimaginable amounts of energy to create certain substances. I think this is the thinking behind the film. Cameron did consult a lot of scientists when making the film. He may be mocking the current human mentality a bit too, with oil.
ogicabp4u 1 year ago
@ogicabp4u Just for info sake: Unobtainium is the default name for the unknown, un-named high in value resource. They use that name in many films and documentaries to explain such a mineral.
d3agl3uk 11 months ago
@proverb311031 if you gave NASA the appropriate funding they could do it in under 10 years. *cough* president Obama *cough*
glenn2070 11 months ago
@proverb311031 I know right! You should become friends with "Vise357" on here... He is my dad, and you basically wrote the same words he prob. would have wrote! Write back to me if you do not know how to get to his channel.
Viz731 9 months ago
@proverb311031
it costed us billions of dollars and decades to make the ISS, for the sole purpose of surviving and do some laboratory tests in space. Laboratory tests that seemed to really change the way we live.
Near earth asteroids are a couple of 10times larger then the ISS. And all of those asterois are in high earth orbit or also known as at the geosynchronous orbit or beyond. Or atleast more then 35300km. The ISS orbits at 330-360km. There are no house or cabin sized asterois on tht
Armigo91 7 months ago
@proverb311031
altitude. Im completely sure that future space colonist and strategists will make full use of the natural sattelites (near earth asteroids) and the moon to ofcourse to plant our first houses and factories.
We havent used this as a strategy yet because it isnt yet a strategy. It will be but it isnt.
We took decades and trillion dollars over time to accomplish to build a small lab in LEO.
Not to mention to build a greater lab in order to pack the surface area of a asteroid
Armigo91 7 months ago
@proverb311031
which natural orbit is atleast 10times higher then the iss is, means you also need alot more fuel for the same kg that you put the iss with in low earth orbit.
As for the avatar scenario. Its very fake. There are indeed enough resources in space.
In space theyre even easier to prospect and gather. You dont have to dig a mile underground and although objects may have weight theyre much easier to move or transport in a weightless environment.
Armigo91 7 months ago
@proverb311031
In fact, once spacetravel becomes routine, all resource industries will be in space looking for asteroids, rather then digging on the surface of their home planet which would be insufficient compared to getting resources in space.
Armigo91 7 months ago
i think virgin galactic/richard branson's ship trumps all other ships LOL!!!!!
anthonycarl2020 2 years ago
Watch the "Virgin Galactic - 'Us and Them'" instead of this, or any other one. It is better than the rest.
lexexec 2 years ago
$ 250 000
Hobott 2 years ago
pocket change!
privateworldofwarft 2 years ago
wow how many cost the tiket?
TylerMonaco 2 years ago
Those space suits need a redesign. Modesty please.
Freehawk52 2 years ago
yup
silveragent111 2 years ago
What is the mater? you fat? you need to be in shape to go up there anyways. Suits need to be small because there are going to be a number of people in a tight compartment.
marick626 2 years ago
@marick626 no um..if you pay attention you can see some junk in the general area where your legs meet your pelvis
chevezez 2 years ago
@chevezez
yes men have penises and women have vaginas. Your point?
marick626 2 years ago
I'm no "privatization" freak. Lets face it, some things are just not moral to privatize. That being said, space is the perfect place for private enterprise! Of course the need for some cultural monitoring will be needed till we evolve a step or three more, but the riches present in space can really make life on earth a lot better for all of mankind.
Plutonwolf 2 years ago 4
travel to another earth type planet would be great especially to get away from certain kinds of people that live here.
jasong19711 2 years ago 37
unfortunately...they'll be there too......
JephyrX 2 years ago
i agree
proverb311031 2 years ago
@jasong19711 You.
cobolt13 1 year ago
@cobolt13 yes I want to get away from certain kinds of people who live here like the ones doped up so badly they kill you for 5.00 or the kinds who will kill you for things written in the Koran, and many others like that! It would be nice to be on a fresh green new peaceful world, leaving all of them behind here!
jasong19711 1 year ago
@jasong19711 What the fuck's with all the ' ! ' 's ? are you special.
cobolt13 1 year ago
I noticed how you avoided the subject.
jasong19711 1 year ago
@jasong19711 What is the 'Subject' we are discussing.As i recall there was never one started,Thus providing me with the answer and the conclusion that you are,a,Retard.
cobolt13 1 year ago
@cobolt13 please don't breed for the sake of the gene pool and the human race please get your tubes tied
jasong19711 1 year ago
@jasong19711 Have 3 kids thank you.ones studying law right now,The other one is 12 and 8,Don't go there.As for you, I can see you are unable to use what god gave you,You must be extremely stupid/American.Or was chemically castrated. Otherwise you wouldn't be such a fucked up sounding individual.
cobolt13 1 year ago
@cobolt13 then in other words you have already soiled the gene pool.
jasong19711 1 year ago
@jasong19711 In your eye's it's soiling,In my eye's it's re-populating intelligence,And thus proves to me that your ' kind ' frown upon such a act,So go hit your kids on the head to dumb down what is left of your spilt-over brain mass.
cobolt13 1 year ago
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fhuha 1 year ago
@jasong19711 i do feel targeted by that comment not because i'm a douchebag but because i'm very paranoid
Song4Alex 9 months ago
would py that if i had it, imagine to say youve been in space. something few men can say. and even fewer women.
quagmire475 2 years ago 2
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They expect to charge hundreds of thousands of dollars for a trip lasting only a few minutes!!? GTFO
18CaStRaDoMiS89 2 years ago
Only 3 minutes in space???????
mitepopov85 2 years ago
5 minutes
IamWarrior35 2 years ago
Yes 3 minutes, due to the enormous risks and high costs of steller travel and the rotation of the earth. If you wanted an hour there would be far more complications and therefore much higher costs, unless geo-stationery orbit can be achieved which of course costs money too. By five minutes you could be easily end up in another country without authorisation, the legal ramifications of which also cost money to the individual and Virgin Galactic. That's just my view anyway. :)
ianonline 2 years ago 5
it's a dream....
wildcatp7 2 years ago
Freaky sheeeet.
krazykizza 2 years ago
faaaaaaaaaaaaart ........
CapitanoGUC 2 years ago
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crediki 2 years ago
Dear all,
I have some questions about psychology:
Why do we love flying? Why do we enjoy space travel? Why do we like spacecrafts and aeroplanes?
Thank you in Adavnce for your creative idea and brainstorms :)
applesweeter 2 years ago
i think its because humans have lived on the ground for thousands of years without the ability to explore space until now
cavemann14 2 years ago
I think it's because it provides a feeling of infinite freedom, also we are not supposed to be alble to do that so maybe it's like saying "no" to children, they want to do it even more.
Renard380 2 years ago 2
it helps to get away from society, you isolate yourself and feel relaxed and it feels like you have less responsibillity or something.. :P
also it is interesting.
Z3r0XoL 2 years ago 2
fun
SpaPoolsNZ 2 years ago
"We" makes it a sociology question.
Laynep123 2 years ago
A lot of us have a fear of flying, a lot of us would love to see as much money and effort put into exploring the sea. Me... I personally like like both so why not build a rocket that's also a submarine... eh?
Waxthumper 2 years ago
Because if the earth gets hit by a cataclysmic asteroid, there will be nowhere to go. People can't survive forever underwater, but evidence suggest extra-terrestrial resources could be life sustaining, at least for those lucky enough to get there.
ianonline 2 years ago
@Waxthumper it's quite a thrill to fly an airplane...i can only imagine what it would be like to fly a spaceship
chevezez 2 years ago 5
keep trying, keep trying, keep trying
jamesvcp 2 years ago
You're a smart kid, but North Korea was a joke, a bad analogy if you will... But they don't shoot things in space down with "AA" weapons they use ICBMs that North Korea recently successfully tested.
dschriber 2 years ago
I have a question. Why argue this on Youtube? Argue this face to face and verify each other's credentials. Any moron can voice an opinion or be an agitator here (mine included). I could tell you that if you launched this thing and if flew over North Korea it would be shot down because they thought it was a missile, and people would believe that.
dschriber 2 years ago
That's great! Personally, I'd love to see something like this! It's out-of-the-box thinking like this that drives the creation of new technology and exploration. You never know what may become of this! Personally, I wouldn't pitch it to an organization like NASA. I would pitch it to a Branson, or SpaceX and Elon Musk.
LMichaelL65 2 years ago
Mail yourself the idea, written down. That way, the post date can be used as evidence that it was your idea.
LMichaelL65 2 years ago
any reply?
MrMyers758 2 years ago
Chuck your idea at nasa, or virgin. It seems virgin are more interested in the environment, and Sir Branson is always looking for a good edge. Good luck
MrMyers758 2 years ago
oh well, worth a shot to see if you were serious!
MrMyers758 2 years ago
So long as they can prove they wrote their idea BEFORE it actualy passes, it doesnt matter if it gets passed or not, they still have poof that they came up with the idea before legal action was allowable.
MrMyers758 2 years ago
If you knew what you were on about youd know that so long as it is PENDING and not fully copywritten then your idea is open to copying. Someone can write your idea down as their own, and so long as they have proof that it was written BEFORE your patent is passed then you cannot sue them. Understand?
MrMyers758 2 years ago
A real version of this beauty proved successfull in a test flight! NASAs chunky rockets are going to the country side as "Porkys' Restaurants"!
Attilaakiraly 2 years ago
In around 7 years ist the ticket price only around 25000$ to 30000$. 25000$= 19235 euro. 30000$=23082 euro
skunkfan123 2 years ago
Well Mr buzzkilington by telling us it is patent PENDING allows for room of copywrite, so long as the idea presented is writen down with proof BEFORE the patent is granted.
MrMyers758 2 years ago
Wow, way to put a dampers on things
MrMyers758 2 years ago
besides releasing an idea that is patent pending ?
mikew909 2 years ago
just wondering is there a duty free bar/ trolley, (am i aloud to get spaced out), any on flight entertainment, also is there any steward jobs going cheers bradson speak soon
hannamalex 2 years ago
LOL, what happens if someone vomited in their suit?
zimtower 2 years ago
It splats on their visor lol. And they have to spend the rest of their trip trying to see around the puke in their helmet.
MrMyers758 2 years ago
Count me in!! Once Im done with the military, Im going to Embry Riddle for pilot training. I figure by the time I have all the requirements met, I can fly for this company!!
Hollywood115F16 2 years ago
LOL can imagine a billionare having this ship....far out...
dwadwaza 2 years ago
Oh and just incase you got confused by colonisation i do not mean open air living and terraforming of planets you idiot, u can live on a plaet without it being earth like. I was talking about fully airtight colonies, mainly research ones that exist in the zero grvity elements of the moon and other planets. Ones cut off from the vacuum. Is that so hard to beleive? That we can colonise a planet using fully airtight buildings like the space ships?
MrMyers758 2 years ago
Wow, I'd really like to go on a thing like that. I guess it would be a little scary, but it would be fun. My question is, why is the frontal landing gear a ski-thingie? Shouldn't it be a wheel like the others?
CommanderOrion732 2 years ago
must be great! But $100000 or two for just two hours of weightlessness/sights/dizziness/no food? I'd rather stay in home, playing.
Jimohazard 2 years ago
wow! sci-fi meets reality
heirtothecosmos5 2 years ago
Also they released teh information that the whole experience will last 2 1/2 hours, so plenty o time!
MrMyers758 2 years ago 2
what's the procedure if you can't hold on that long?
thedreamdealer 2 years ago
Dunno realy, the suit is built so there are no gaps in it, i guess you could go in your suit :)
MrMyers758 2 years ago
GOD DAMN IT!!!!!!!
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BestofYTChannel 2 years ago
i HOPE it is too expensive for most people. .. If everyone was pointlessly jetting off to space just for a view and a few minutes of zero G then there would be real problems for the environment and people's safety. Besides, most people just think it is 'cool' instead of considering the damatic implications of their space travel - it is a BIG deal, not your average holiday.
dzoneisahero 2 years ago
your wrong on the enviroment thing, they use reusable fuel cells so it doesn't pollute the enviroment a lot (unlike china >_>) and yes it IS expensive it's 200,000 united states dollars per person to fly up there, and it is safe.
jamespcgamer 2 years ago
fuel cells.....!!!??? wtf...?? this think needs a giant rocket to go up there... they can never found this power from fuel cells..... this is not a honda civic...!! the guy (dzoneisahero) is right....
ibizatopgun115 2 years ago
Actually, the Space Shuttle uses fuel cells for most of its power. Not its liftoff power, that comes from the rockets. But SpaceShip2 will be carried up by WhiteKnight2, taking off like a plane. So using fuel cells might be plausible.
CommanderOrion732 2 years ago
Also when the spaceport is built hey plan to have one flight per week. Eventualy the price will drop to say, a fortnight in teh carribean? Iv always wondered what the earth actualy looked like in real life. As iv seen pictures of mountains but when i went to the alpes i was mezmarized by the collosal size of it in real life. Id certainly soak up this experience, its every humans right to get off this planet we have ben on for 1000s of years.
MrMyers758 2 years ago 2
I hope some other rich companies (Google) will also offer space trips so that the price will reduce to $5000 by the end of 2040. Competition is very good for space technologies. We will have better, safer and more environmentfriendly space stations, rockets, and space suits from which the NASA can benefit. This will cause a reduction of the costs for the NASA and a boom in the space industry, too.
TrickyEmu 2 years ago
Exactly, and we can finaly get to playing out a big idea of ours, the colonisation of the solar system. After all, i think nasa said they were building something which could be placed on the moon sa a perminent colonial structure. So its all good!
MrMyers758 2 years ago
There will never be enough money to colonise the solar system. Will take at least another 1000 years to be financially feasable and another 10,000 years before we get anywhere with terraforming. By then humans will have killed each other off. Forget your bull-shit pipe dreams. We ain't going nowhere.
TheAnnoyingSpammer 2 years ago
Its not bull shit, it will happen eventualy. Plus as iv said before NASA are already building the first building for a permanent base on the moon, a self reliant one would you beleive. And the fact that it is near completion within the next 10 years or so is good. It will path the way for the colonisation of the moon. I mean look how far weve come in just say 50 years tech wise, where speeding up. Things are gunna happen alot faster than you expect.
MrMyers758 2 years ago
And if the moon can begin colonisation in about 10 years or so itll be only around 100 years before other places are being looked at for resources, i mean look how far weve come in 50 years as iv said, think of how far well go in 100 years! So its not bull shit if nasa is already thinking about it, it will be done eventualy.
MrMyers758 2 years ago
Having an airborne launch facility at that scale is definitely not free. Plus the reduction in drag and starting speed is trivial compared to orbital speeds. The most fuel costly part is not getting off the ground, it's accelerating to ~7600m/s LEO speed.
Plus, you need LIQUID oxygen and hydrogen for the most efficient fuel, there's no way you're going to make that on a balloon.
Putting a fuel plant near a launch site might save costs, but not what you're proposing.
TheRealSiguy 2 years ago
The bottom line is:
Liquid hydrogen and oxygen are already cheaply available, and there are cheaper ways to produce them than electrolysis.
Launching a spacecraft from a balloon doesn't save that much delta-v, and it only limits payload weight.
If you want to go with on-site fuel production by electrolysis, then just put a plant to produce it from salt water next to a seaside launch pad.
TheRealSiguy 2 years ago
Neither electrolysis nor balloon launched spacecraft are new ideas. Balloon borne electrolysis facilities launching spacecraft is perhaps a new idea, but not an invention.
Just because nobody's tried it doesn't mean it's inventive. There have been thousands of perfectly sound proposals and developments for spaceflight that have gone nowhere due to budget cuts, cancellations, whatever. Space exploration is expensive, not everything gets a chance to be tried.
TheRealSiguy 2 years ago
It's still far from the best place to put a hydrogen production facility, and still not an idea you can patent.
TheRealSiguy 2 years ago
Helium doesn't lift very much, and is very expensive. Hydrogen is cheaper and lifts more, but it still isn't easy to lift heavy payloads high in the atmosphere. An airship as you described would have to be on the scale of Hindenburg, and significantly more advanced, and then you have a lot of structural problems. There's a big difference between a weather balloon and the kind of sky palace you describe.
TheRealSiguy 2 years ago
Balloons and airships aren't very good at carrying heavy payloads like solar panels, water tanks, and spacecraft. While balloon launched spacecraft are an interesting concept, whether or not they are practical is up for debate.
TheRealSiguy 2 years ago
But that isn't even a practical method! Sure, solar powered electrolysis is one way to produce O2 and H2, but putting an electrolysis facility on a balloon won't do anything for space travel.
TheRealSiguy 2 years ago
Uhh, you can't patent the idea of using hydrogen and oxygen as fuel, whether its source is electrolysis or not. It's already in use.
TheRealSiguy 2 years ago
move along now, nothing to see in space...
232lalas 2 years ago
i guess if you want to believe in impractical space shuttles that wouldnt be able to handle reentry then yeah this would be great
jjispecial 3 years ago