Because I have not said a single thing that is not actually true?

If you want to discuss things, learn how to behave in polite conversation. I have zero interest in ever talking to you again now.

More energy, yes. And more energy means more fuel. More fuel means more mass. More mass means even more energy. And so on. To scale up to the point where you can actually reach orbit will require a vastly different design, far bigger and heavier. And at that point, what you learned from the SpaceShipTwo no longer really applies much.

We sure have better space travel than the SpaceShipTwo could ever provide, though.

Like the other guy says, reaching orbit is hard. We're not going to suddenly have a miraculous development that gives us super-powerful engines that makes it possible for something like the SpaceShipTwo to reach it. And if we did, anything the SpaceShipTwo had learned would pale into utter insignificance compared to the massive possibilities of that miracle engine.

Is that carbon fiber worth dying for, then?

Not really. I'm saying we have rockets that can actually take us into space right now, and we've had them for a long time. The SpaceShipTwo is nowhere near in their league, and saying that we can learn something about going into space from the puny little ship that can't do it, rather than from the ones we've been sending up there for over half a century, is about as ludicrous as saying that we would learn something useful for commercial airliners by flying a propeller plane over the Atlantic.

What

They either won't reach orbit either, or they will be drastically different craft, not based on the SpaceShipTwo at all.

So? The Wright brothers weren't trying to achieve that. They had plenty of much more reasonable goals to achieve instead.

And, you know, we've been going to space for over half a century. We're not exactly at the Wright brothers state of experimentation any more. If you built a Wright flyer today, you wouldn't go around saying "Yes but think how much we can learn from it!"

Well aren't you a pleasant person.

What.

We took those first steps over half a century ago. If you'r building a Wright Flyer TODAY, you're not going to be learning much, are you?

"By my logic" nothing. What I am actually saying that if we had jets crossing the Atlantic already, then yes, Lindbergh's flight would be just for thrills and we wouldn't learn a damn thing from it.

It does not, at all. It's not like we're struggling to reach space now. We have spacecraft. We know how to make them. We're working on making them better. They are not novel, and they are not waiting to be discovered by random chance.

The SpaceCraftTwo has very little bearing on any of that work. It's a design that can't reach orbit, no matter how hard you try. There are much more fruitful avenues to pursue if you want to improve spaceflight.

And never. That design just can not reach orbit, no matter how hard you try.