Richard Branson is to blast off

[TopCat]

I am a bad person. Thinking bad thoughts.

Virgin Galactic to launch space plane with Richard Branson onboard

The billionaire, along with two pilots and three other passengers, will reach 55 miles above Earth for about an hour

www.theguardian.com

 

[Badgers]

Hope the cunt dies

 

[TopCat]

He is a cunt.

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Might watch the livestream when it launches - looks like it's due at 2pm UK time.

 

[danski]

I know I’m saying nothing new but it’s fucking obscene how the mega rich can zoom around space while there is so much poverty in the world

 

[MrSki]

Yeah I hope it ends up in the sea. Fucking billionaires space race. Cunts the lot of them.

 

[TopCat]

An earlier prototype of the Virgin Galactic rocket plane crashed during a test flight over California’s Mojave desert in 2014, killing one pilot and seriously injuring another.

 

[tim]

Hope the cunt dies

He's only going 50 miles up, which according to Bezos isn't really Space at all; Bezos will be going 62 miles up, which according to Bezos really is Space. Considering how much space there really> I don't find either trip that impressive. They should club together with musk and bugger off to Alpha Centauri.

I just hope that the gremlin who bedevilled his cycling trips isn't on the loose again.









Who was masked man who sabotaged Sir Richard Branson's bike?

 

[JuanTwoThree]

Considering the Earth's circumference is around 40,000 km, going 80 km up is pretty chickenshit. I could get there in well under an hour without breaking the speed limit (various minor difficulties like gravity and oxygen notwithstanding).

 

[Elpenor]

Can all of these prototype Bond villain millionaires please stay in space forever. Maybe the pilots can eject them into the dark wilderness

 

[Sprocket.]

As a businessman, Branson must realise there is no such thing as a free launch.

 

[MickiQ]

The one thing the Bearded Wonder is really good at is blowing his own trumpet so now he has beaten Evil Overlord by 9 days, I suspect we will see a lot of him over the next 2 or 3 weeks.
Apparently he has a waiting list of 600 people at quarter of a million a pop waiting for a ride.

 

[DotCommunist]

Remember when the space race was an ideological and technological race between two world superpowers and their vast teams of engineers, scientists and what have you. Now its a cock waving exercise for three ageing billionaire cunts. I miss the cold war.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Dear God,

I've been a decent bloke most of my life, and in the last few years have largely lived according to your boy's principles even though I don't actually believe in either of you.

I know I've taken your name in vain on numerous occasions so you might frown on these two things I ask of you today, especially as they're biggies. I guarantee they'd make a lot of people happy. Yes, I know they're bigger fans of yours in Italy but they've won this before, and four world cups, so can you let England win tonight please?

Also I'm not sure of the procedure or proper wording to ask you to smite someone but if that grinning ballbag Branson could explode just before he reaches what he defines as space that would be great. cough Bezos too cough

Thanks in advance, it's coming 'ome, Jesus is my homeboy, etc.

Catsbum

 

[Saul Goodman]

I hope something goes terribly wrong and his eyeballs pop out of their sockets and freeze to his cheeks.

 

[Epico]

Might watch the livestream when it launches - looks like it's due at 2pm UK time.

Great scheduling! Watch Branson go up in fucking flames and then the football later!! Might need to get some extra beer in!

 

[keybored]

55 miles? Ambitious. I hope they've considered the size of his head in the calculations, the gravitational pull must be fucking immense.

 

[Sprocket.]

He struggled in a balloon.

 

[Pickman's model]

Can all of these prototype Bond villain millionaires please stay in space forever. Maybe the pilots can eject them into the dark wilderness

Ground control to major dick

 

[klang]

He's only going 50 miles up, which according to Bezos isn't really Space at all; Bezos will be going 62 miles up, which according to Bezos really is Space. Considering how much space there really> I don't find either trip that impressive.

I could cycle that in a couple of hours, three tops.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

I'm hoping their onboard computer system decides to murder them.

Richard: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry, Dick. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Richard: What's the problem?
HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

If not we can expect this to be the next announcement

ALL THESE WORLDS ARE OURS, INCLUDING EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING ANYWHERE. USE THEM TOGETHER. USE THEM BY BOOKING WITH VIRGIN.

 

[planetgeli]

One more here for die.

 

[Badgers]

If he was to crash into Parliament or Downing Street and England win then I am complete

 

[Epico]

If he was to crash into Parliament or Downing Street and England win then I am complete

And we find out that Jamie Oliver was a stowaway.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Gunna have to watch this live stream just on the off chance of it going totally tits up

 

[Sprocket.]

Gunna have to watch this live stream just on the off chance of it going totally tits up

He has previous for being rescued from the ocean.

 

[Saul Goodman]

And we find out that Jamie Oliver was a stowaway.

I'd love to see Branson, Oliver and Johnson car pooling in Musk's Tesla, but there's room for two more and at least one in the boot.
Text: your nomination, followed by "Get orf moi planet" to 66666

 

[Pickman's model]

And we find out that Jamie Oliver was a stowaway.

We'd hear of one oxygen thief accusing another of being an oxygen thief

 

[MickiQ]

I suspect Blue Origin has 1 big selling point over Virgin Galactic and that the possibility of meeting the owner is a lot less.
Booking with Virgin Galactic probably involves a personal meet and greet with the Bearded Wonder.
Galactic is a very pretentious choice of name for something that will just about reach space though.