But rockets that actually go into space are not a novelty. We've had those for over half a century.
And the SpaceShipTwo can't even do what they can, nor will it ever no matter how much it is developed.
It is highly unlikely to do that. Does not go high enough, does not stay long enough.
The SpaceShipTwo is not a space plane. It can not get you into space and stay there. It can only go up, and then fall down immediately. Developing the SpaceShipTwo is not going to get you an actual space plane, because such a plane would have to be designed very, very differently from the SpaceShipTwo.
An airplane that can get you from NYC to Dallas is unlike the SpaceShipTwo in nearly every possible way.
We already have the things that you're hoping might come from it. We have spaceships. We can get into orbit already.
The SpaceShipTwo can't, ever, no matter how hard you try. It's just not anywhere near the right design for it.
Don't be fucking daft. There are huge differences between what an airplane does and what SpaceShipTwo does. An airplane flies for long periods of time. SpaceShipTwo just does a single quick burn of a rocket engine, and then glides back down.
It literally just goes up and falls back down again immediately. It can do nothing else. It is a few minute long thrill ride.
However, if it goes up and then comes down on a completely different continent (which would of course be possible in the future)
It is possible now. But not with the SpaceShipTwo. It is a completely different design that what is needed for that.
SpaceShipTwo is not going to bring the human race into a new age. It's not a craft that can be used to reach space, no matter how much you test or develop it.
We already know how to reach space. This is not how. This is just for thrills.
The SpaceShipTwo design can not be used to reach space. It's not fundamental research that will help you get to space.
You completely missed the point, there. Titanic served a useful purpose, it transported people across the sea.
SpaceShipTwo just goes up and falls back down again for a thrill. It's a roller coaster, like the article says.
If a roller coaster causes a deadly accident and is shut down, do you cry about FREEDOM and PUSHING THE ENVELOPE too?
Revised properties of gravity (TeVeS) are still candidates
Nope, not for a long time. Revised gravity theories still require some amount of dark matter to explain current observations, which makes them the by far worse option.
True, however, are they supposed to test
No. But it turns out they did. Because they actually spent quite a bit of effort to write code that permanently breaks counterfeit chips and not their own. They did lots of testing on everyone else's chips.
Of course the liability is with FTDI, they intentionally modified the chip to make it stop working!
They are well within their rights to make their driver detect counterfeit chips and refuse to use them.
That is nowhere near the same as actually maliciously writing invalid configuration settings to the chip.
Why would FTDI have to ensure their driver doesn't break chips that aren't theirs?
It's not that they didn't ensure that. It's that they ensured it did break them, very intentionally.
The NSA kills people now, does it.
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