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Seek3n
July 12, 2021 at 12:00 am
$Spce. 💥
mbdAli
July 12, 2021 at 5:16 pm
Cry baby
Nusrat Shahid
July 12, 2021 at 12:15 am
Magnificent 👍🏻
Njul
July 12, 2021 at 12:23 am
Useless. Yet another toy for the ultra rich taunting the common people from above. Fuck this.
Maude Potvin
July 12, 2021 at 1:36 am
14 kilometers shy from space … Close but no cigar !
The Rt. Hon. The Lord Nicholson of Arnage
July 12, 2021 at 3:16 pm
I was thinking the same! It’s ‘space’ as far as the FAA and NASA are concerned… Very cool nonetheless.
eddyvideostar
July 12, 2021 at 6:03 pm
Dear Maude Potvin: Explain that, please.
JewTube
July 12, 2021 at 9:56 pm
@eddyvideostar there’s different definitions of where earth stops and space starts. bezos expects to fly 20km higher so if he does that many people will consider him to be the winner of this space race.
Vehicle Wizard Lifts
July 12, 2021 at 2:17 am
Space.. the final frontier. 🌌🚀
mrPmj00
July 12, 2021 at 2:44 am
..-FAANG stocks (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft) and Intel…warren buffet quotes: It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a
fair company at a wonderful price.
Dragomir Ronilac
July 12, 2021 at 3:37 am
It is just a jump over 50 miles obove but space…??? For tourists it fair enough anyway… maybe.
Not real zero G but just long free fall.
Why Spacex and Virgin provide such a childisch, infantile commentaty full of false drama?
Guardian Observer
July 12, 2021 at 7:17 am
There are people eating hamburgers with golden foils inside and they say that they are tasty and you wonder the why of this?
the Unrepentant
July 12, 2021 at 3:44 am
*Space, Gravity, Time and Light*
Hypothetically, suppose that space is comprised of cubes, cubes of phenomenon X filling the entire void of eternity that to the human senses seem to be nothing yet existing in some unfathomable reality, each one a cubic meter in volume. But where celestial and planetary bodies exist what was a cubic meter is now a cubic centimetre, space having been deformed and compressed by the presence of a body.
In order to understand the concept it is easier to first visualize this idea in two dimensions. Like a straight, horizontal line on which are placed steel ball bearings. Thus, we have a horizontal line with a few circles resting on top of it. For convenience and to aid this illustration we will refer to these circles as heavy ball bearings. If the line is elastic then it will sag from the weight of the ball bearings. The nature of this elasticity is that the line only sags locally in the vicinity of each ball bearing, but remains horizontal and straight for the remainder of its length.
Thus, we have a horizontal line with a series of local dips.
Now, slide an object along the line. This object will continue on its path, moving horizontally and nothing seems to affect it until it reaches a localized dip and it moves downward to the steel ball bearing where it comes to rest.
Now, consider space along this horizontal line. Imagine, this line representing space comprised of metre squares abutting each other making up the entire length of this line. Visualize this as a line one metre thick. Where the ball bearing is placed it sags, meaning that the one metre squares are squeezed together and the line in this local area now consists of one centimetre squares. The one metre thick line is reduced to one centimetre.
An object sliding along this line will drop down into the dip and stop.
Gravity is a flow. That is gravity.
The effects of gravity are overcome in an anti-gravity device by simulating a one cubic metre volume of space where in the dip its actual size is only one cubic centimetre. If the simulation of space is larger than a cubic metre then the object will rise, seeming effortlessly. When the simulation of space is less than a cubic metre the object will drop downwards, its rate controlled by the degree of reduction of space.
This characteristic of space may be expressed mathematically, as a differential equation.
Given that the universe is in a state of vibration, which is sound, then it is a sound wave of particular characteristic that is required to simulate space and overcome gravity. The same principle may be employed to turn heavy solids into lightweight soft material, in which the properties of rock become those of a marshmallow. Ancient drawings depict sound tones passing from base to apex in a pair of cones.
Two dimensions were employed to illustrate the principle of space and gravity. In reality the process is three dimensional. Objects moving in the metre cubes that make up space flow into the dips, the one-centimetre cubes of space where celestial bodies reside. And there they stop.
The phenomenon that enables electromagnetic waves seem to travel pervades the universe. It is already there. That is why light, an electromagnetic wave within a narrow band of frequencies, is independent of the speed of the observer. No matter how you measure its speed it will not vary.
That is until you consider the makeup of space. Outside of the influence of celestial bodies the one-centimetre cubes are restored to their normal one-metre size. Time, as we measure it, then, is distorted. Travel of one centimetre becomes one metre or 100 times the distance. Using the same metre to centimetre ratio bodies that appear to be 100 light years away are only a light year away. Of course, the metre to one-centimetre illustration was employed for easy visualization of the concept. In reality the ratio might be a billion to one. Thus, a celestial body a billion light years away employing conventional measurement, in reality, is only one light year distant.
Gravity is a flow towards a condensation of space. Outside of this influence light travels a billion times faster and objects are a billion times closer than they appear to be.
Darren Williams
July 12, 2021 at 1:55 pm
PLEASE take it easy on my two Nieces. As typical young feminists they were not smart enough to go into STEM, so they majored in ‘Women’s Studies’ and now they’re as DUMB as a bag of dead rats. If they tried to read this it would be like watching a dog trying to fuck a football, but I don’t completely disagree with what they majored in because now I get my Starbucks coffee for free…
Hannible100
July 12, 2021 at 3:27 pm
@Darren Williams LOL you are a man after my own heart. I know people with degrees and they are as thick as shit.
MrAuberyII GODs Earth is FLAT and NASA is FAKE
July 12, 2021 at 5:33 am
come and see how space agencies fake going to space
King of Cups
July 12, 2021 at 5:40 am
Odd, seems its attained speed is not a tenth of required escape velocity.
Screeno
July 12, 2021 at 8:40 am
This is just a load of bollocks really. It’s barely even a suborbital trajectory. Mach 3 is Nothing compared to the re-entry speed of an orbital craft at about Mach 25. This is just a toy plane in comparison to any real spacecraft.
James B.
July 12, 2021 at 10:14 am
45 years ago we had the Concorde that already flew Mach 2 on daily commercial flights. Once again Branson big mouth little delivered.
Screeno
July 12, 2021 at 10:42 am
@James B. exactly lol. All these fanboys make me cringe lmao. As much as I dislike billionaires, Elon musk is actually delivering on the space flight front. Richard Branson’s thing is a tourist fun ride really, but it’s been hyped up as more than that.funny thing is Elon musk already bought tickets for a ride lol
Anton Nidhoggr
July 12, 2021 at 11:46 am
Well, I agree, but at least it looks kinda like a sci-fi spaceship, compared to that Bezos’s flying dick. One point for Branson )
Zakaizu
July 12, 2021 at 5:56 pm
@Anton Nidhoggr “Flying dick” 😂
Standard nnn
July 12, 2021 at 9:18 am
Please do one full orbit.
Screeno
July 12, 2021 at 10:44 am
It won’t, it can’t. Mach 3 is basically only 10% of the velocity required for orbit. Consider also the international space station orbits 400km up.
Chris King
July 12, 2021 at 12:57 pm
Thunderbirds are go!!
Beavis Jones
July 12, 2021 at 3:01 pm
😂
P Batt
July 12, 2021 at 1:26 pm
That’s so cool🇺🇸🇺🇸
Hannible100
July 12, 2021 at 3:10 pm
The other bloke is going into space Branston never got there space is 100 kts not 86! He should have put more petrol in the tank and gone further.
Brad Neale
July 12, 2021 at 4:46 pm
Honestly, this is boring. Let me know when we can actually lift off Earth and enter space like a spaceship on Star Wars.
eddyvideostar
July 12, 2021 at 5:54 pm
To Bloomberg: *Branson, the British billionaire, beats Bezos to the blastoff.*
David Portwood
July 12, 2021 at 6:09 pm
I’m looking forward to seeing Bezos’ effort. I do think Branson’s spaceplane design is far more reliable and practical than Bezos’ Big Unit approach. At this point in the Great Race Branson IMO is way ahead, but the course is not well defined. He could still head in the wrong direction. Every chess player knows how easy it is to lose a won game. A GM visiting my chess club stopped behind me and scrutinized my position. I was playing another club player of about equal strength and I was crushing him. The GM clucked, grunted, coughed twice – the height of praise – and moved on. About an hour later I was congratulating my opponent on his brilliant recovery as I put my pieces away. I turned around and the GM was there. “How did you lose that one?” he asked me, incredulously. When you’ve bet the farm on an absolutely certain basketball contest, your team is up by two with three seconds left and the other team’s worst player is heaving it up from mid-court with his back to the basket and a booger hanging, what do you think the Universe is going to do to you, every time? Just saying, it’s early days yet. Anything can still happen and surely will.
So What
July 12, 2021 at 6:33 pm
The whole point of this whole endeavor is to sell rich people a ride out into weightlessness for 250k a pop. I watched Branson’s test run and wondered how much do these worthless trips to the edge of space contribute to global warming? I normally wouldn’t care about that except the same dickheads that will be clamoring for tickets to go on this trip will be relentlessly preaching to me to ride a bike and eat kale or the earth will come to an end in ten years.
Carpe diem
July 12, 2021 at 8:21 pm
How can I get into the history books?
Ms Rahman
July 12, 2021 at 9:31 pm
Fake news
marcioms84
July 12, 2021 at 10:14 pm
I am so happy for this beautiful achievement by Virgin! Congratulations to Richard and the whole team!
A dream come true! See that it’s not just anyone who puts their skin in the game to demonstrate how safe and wonderful this new world is that they are inaugurating right now. Very happy to see Richard remembering God all the time. Oh my God! …remembering how wonderful the creator is to offer us so much and so beautiful things!
damion Wongsang Il
July 13, 2021 at 1:05 am
fake as fuck