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Clinically Insane
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Sep 30, 2004, 04:14 PM
 
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996465

Pretty damn exciting. I'm gonna start saving money for my sub-orbital flight from San Francisco to Germany in 4 hours.

I think it's funny that Virgin already has a subsidiary called "Virgin Galactic."
     
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Sep 30, 2004, 05:35 PM
 
It doesnt matter much if it rolls like crazy in near zero g, you wont feel a thing if you are an experienced pilot like Melvin. So from that point it was a good flight. They better figgure out wat the glitch was though.

good luck to Mel.

I may just save like crazy until I am 70 to get to go up there before its too late.

Edit: just added a qualifier to that original statement about zero g
(Last edited by FulcrumPilot; Sep 30, 2004 at 05:45 PM. )
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a solitary firefly flies at nite
into the darkness an endless flight
a million flashes of delight.
     
   
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