Comment nice fleet (Score 1) 1
build five spaceships to meet the demand
A fleet of Virgins, nice.
Submission + - Space vehicle unveiled at EAA (jsonline.com) 1
xanthos writes: "Sir Richard Branson was at the annual Experimental Aircraft Assoc Fly-in to show off EVE (previously known as White Knight Two), the launch vehicle for Virgin Galactic's commercial space operation. Test flights for SpaceShipTwo are slated for next year with the first paying passenger's going up in 2011.
What surprised me was the following from the article:
"So many people have signed up already, Whitehorn said, that the company has collected $40 million in deposits with orders to build five spaceships to meet the demand."
Will this mean that the $200k price tag may be dropping?"
What surprised me was the following from the article:
"So many people have signed up already, Whitehorn said, that the company has collected $40 million in deposits with orders to build five spaceships to meet the demand."
Will this mean that the $200k price tag may be dropping?"
Comment Yeah, but does it run Linux? (Score 1) 488
Yeah, but does it run Linux?
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Comment It's not that big of a deal (Score 1) 382
I've come across a couple of examples of inappropriate use of Excel
- A friend worked at the UK Treasury as a statistician. One of his jobs was testing and improving the Treasury's model of the UK enconomy. I was impressed and asked what tools they used for this. Erm, none, it's just a huge Excel spreadsheet.
Yeah, but it's only the UK economy, it's not like its the German or the Japanese economy or anything.
Comment Re:Set it out in the Sun (Score 1) 545
I'd think twice about doing this. You will end up killing 99% of the bugs, but the 1% that survive will be sunlight resistant! You'll kill us all!
Daywalkers!
