VirginGalactic's New Toys

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Gettin’ closer.

Damn skippy.

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And they can do all that for only $200 000 a ticket, that really is a bargain, regardless of how seemingly short the trip up and down is.

Best of all you can travel on a space ship called “Enterprise” :wink: On the downside this’ll really mess up the opening montage for Star Trek Enterprise :stuck_out_tongue:

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[QUOTE=Pushkin]
And they can do all that for only $200 000 a ticket, that really is a bargain, regardless of how seemingly short the trip up and down is.

Best of all you can travel on a space ship called “Enterprise” :wink: On the downside this’ll really mess up the opening montage for Star Trek Enterprise :stuck_out_tongue:
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They can just pull a George Lucas, and change things around.

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[QUOTE=Pushkin]
Best of all you can travel on a space ship called “Enterprise” :wink: On the downside this’ll really mess up the opening montage for Star Trek Enterprise :stuck_out_tongue:
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They’re not going to call it ‘Enterprise’, are they? That’s nearly as corny as ‘Virgin Galactic’.

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[QUOTE=Mangetout]
They’re not going to call it ‘Enterprise’, are they?
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You’d better believe it :smiley:

Slightly more appropriate perhaps is a sister ship, Spirit of Steve Fossett, the Virgin Galactic brand dodging the bullet of having a space ship called “Voyager” :stuck_out_tongue:

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[QUOTE=Pushkin]
You’d better believe it :smiley:

Slightly more appropriate perhaps is a sister ship, Spirit of Steve Fossett, the Virgin Galactic brand dodging the bullet of having a space ship called “Voyager” :stuck_out_tongue:
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In the 23rd Century…

“This unit has been programmed by Sp’Sett to observe and record normal functioning of the carbon-units infesting USS Enterprise…”

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NASA’s already made that mistake, fortunately the probe was limited to the Earth’s surface.