Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Animation

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[BassmentGhost]

I bet it's made in China.

[chevezez]

@Waxthumper it's quite a thrill to fly an airplane...i can only imagine what it would be like to fly a spaceship

[sachboi]

Id give anything to be in space for 5 mins

[athriaxo]

@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

[givinmegold]

finaly this thing is coming out now for any one who wants two pay 200 thousand dollars for 5 minutes of space

[eonvee375]

@MaxDamage19844 for someone who can aford it, i think its totally worth it ^^

[MaxDamage19844]

200.000 $ for a ticket

[Armigo91]

@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]

@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]

@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]

@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