Richard Branson is to blast off

[klang]

Didn't know bumgardener was fash, I feel less guilty about finding his name amusing now

i might have misremembered over exaggerated. but my fashdar was going mental for some reason.

 

[klang]

Baumgartner means Tree Gardener btw.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

It's a bit like the airports that Easyjet and Ryanair sometimes use: RB calls it Space but it's really 20km away.

 

[JuanTwoThree]

he would opt for a "moderate dictatorship led by experienced personalities coming from the private (sector of the) economy".

Baumgartner's Wikipedia entry

 

[Saul Goodman]

It's coming home*

*but not Branston

He's in a bit of a pickle.

 

[moochedit]

Have any of you sick fucks placed any bets on his demise?

Why? What odds are you offering?

 

[Ax^]

hmm has he crashed it yet




hmm 22 minute delay

 

[a_chap]

Is there a live stream for this?

(presumably it'll be a dead stream if he carks it)

 

[editor]

Is there a live stream for this?

(presumably it'll be a dead stream if he carks it)

Not up yet

Virgin Galactic will launch billionaire Richard Branson into space today. Here's how to watch it live.

Coverage starts at 10:30 a.m. EDT (1430 GMT).

www.space.com

 

[a_chap]

It's not space travel if you don't orbit the earth at least once. Anything else is "world's tallest dwarf" stuff.

I disagree. Both Alan Shepard's and Gus Grissom's first space flights (i.e. the USA's first two men into space) were sub-orbital flights. It was definitely space travel.



As for people wanting Bezos to crash - much as I'd love to see the evil, greedy cunt die - he's craftily taking the legendary Wally Funk as a passenger. Absolutely no-one wants to see her die. It's a sort of karmic insurance policy.

 

[Ax^]

come on get on with it

 

[weltweit]

More impressive recently was that guy who jumped from an aircraft without a parachute and landed in a net on the ground below. I can't remember his name but that was extreme.

 

[Badgers]

Is he dead yet?

 

[weltweit]

I want to know who made the nets?

 

[Sasaferrato]

Felix Baumgartner?

Wow!

 

[Epico]

Hurry up Branson, you tax dodging fuck stick.

 

[Yossarian]

Is he going high up enough to become space debris?

 

[Ax^]

taps foot

 

[Ax^]

taxig down the runway on sky

 

[Ax^]

50 minutes before the test flight

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Stream has come to life - 30 secs to something happening

ffs - it's shit filler crap.

 

[Aladdin]

Feckin ads.

 

[Aladdin]

Feck that.
Branson's teeth everywhere...

 

[Spandex]

Go Richard!

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Burn baby, burn.

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

Burn baby, burn.

Dickhead inferno

 

[Ax^]

goes back to goodwood

its going be circling for about 40 minutes

not sure if i can watch Coulbert and the rest of the team clap branson for that long

 

[Riklet]

Is he dead yet?

 

[Yossarian]

Colbert shouldn't quit his night job.

 

[Aladdin]

This waiting is worse than being in an airport lounge ....