The Commercial - and now general space travel - Thread (No Politics Allowed)

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Great article. Thanks. Amazing to me that at a young age he knew what he wanted to do and did whatever it took to accomplish it. FAA commercial astronaut. Mind blowing.

Just to interject myself into the story 🤦, he mentioned growing up in nw Scotland and watching the planes fly below him. That prompted a memory. There is a place in Glencoe Scotland where you can walk up a mountain and walk along a ridge trail that allows you to look down into a valley. I did it once years ago and had that experience of seeing a fighter plane (i think a Tornado) flying below through the clouds. It's a spectacular hike and takes less than a day. A little scrambling but nothing technical. I don't remember the name of the trail so googled Glencoe and the trail sounds like it might be this one: Aonach Eagach. A recommended trip and cheaper than a Virgin Galactic ticket.

As much as I get annoyed by rich folks flying into space, Mr. Mackay made it sound like an amazing and worthwhile experience. At least building a system to fly passengers in space has the potential to benefit more people than buying an Island or building another 24,000 square foot home for yourself.

Wishing all the pilots and crew safe journeys.

I will try and find that traill - a lot of the greats had a vision from a young age / flight was in their blood I guess...
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And think the extra thrill for the others in the capsule. Not only can they say they have been to space, they can say the went with James Tiberious Kirk! That’s extra bragging rights for sure.
You got it brother. When the inevitable trivia question comes up it’ll be ‘name James T Kirk’s travelling companions’
 
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he mentioned growing up in nw Scotland and watching the planes fly below him. That prompted a memory.

Similarly, in the Mojave desert I’ve been on mountain ridges and looked down at the top side of fighter jets “practicing” very low altitude flying

I seem to remember coming across some YouTube videos of another spot famous for this view point … here it is

 
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Similarly, in the Mojave desert I’ve been on mountain ridges and looked down at the top side of fighter jets “practicing” very low altitude flying

I seem to remember coming across some YouTube videos of another spot famous for this view point … here it is


Slight thread drift but we got 'bounced' in June while heading down the Snowdon Ranger path - I only had a small camera to hand - it was very exhilarating to see / and hear :0)
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Similarly, in the Mojave desert I’ve been on mountain ridges and looked down at the top side of fighter jets “practicing” very low altitude flying

I seem to remember coming across some YouTube videos of another spot famous for this view point … here it is


Stars Wars Canyon, Jedi transition:

 
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Yulia Peresild, one of Russia’s most glamorous actors, and film director Klim Shipenko returned to Earth on Sunday. Shooting the first movie in orbit, in an effort to beat the United States. The 38-year-old US-educated film director said cinema was ready to conquer space. “Cinema is looking for new forms. The cosmos is also ready to welcome various experimentalists,” said Shipenko
The film crew praised Russian cosmonauts on the ISS who they said were very helpful and will have cameo roles in the film.
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Floating props and little sleep: Russians describe filming world’s first movie in space (msn.com)
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@Archer - that is rather funny. You can enjoy the whole episode here which I think would be up your street.


Films predictive programming the future is a thing ... But I do think 1987 is late to the party for tablets... 1968 is a better bet...


Strangely lots of rectangle right angle references in that one.... a big black TV screen tablet controlling mankind / right angles to reality projecting us back in an endless loop within a construct... Tars interstellar enormous tessERECT erection next stop...
 
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@Archer - that is rather funny. You can enjoy the whole episode here which I think would be up your street.

I've seen every episode so many times I've lost count mate...
 
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I've seen every episode so many times I've lost count mate...
You do some odd web searches ;0)
 
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While on the subject of prescient technology in science fiction, I thought you'd enjoy this -- a photo of my humble iPad-mini transformed into a PADD. The photo is posted at full-res so you can read some of the detail.

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The only thing this PADD really does is collect RSS feeds and read them. By default the feeds are mainly associated with tech, gaming, SciFi media; RSS feeds can also be added and deleted. The app is free.

Sadly, the Ops display at the top has no effect on anything in my personal environment.
 
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My PAD went old school..... but for a simple toy hard to use / hats off to the Apollo guys.
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I've seen every episode so many times I've lost count mate...
The best classic Star Trek episode without a doubt is "The City on the Edge of Forever." Dr. McCoy, hallucinating from an accidental overdose of a medication, inadvertently steps through the Guardian of Forever and winds up on pre-WWII Earth. He stumbles into a homeless mission run by Edith Keeler, a visionary played by Joan Collins who is destined to die in a traffic accident. McCoy saves her and, instead of dying as she was meant to, she starts a worldwide peace movement that delays the entrance of the U.S. into WWII and allows the Nazis to complete their heavy water experiments and win the war. Captain Kirk and his officers travel back to the same era to attempt to set things right. Kirk falls in love with Keeler, but Spock reminds him that there is only one solution to allow history to be restored to its original timeline. Absolutely brilliant writing and well acted by Shatner and Collins.
Ending of StarTrekTOS Ep028 The City On The Edge Of Forever - YouTube
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Not sure where I heard this, but given the history of exploration on Earth, pity the poor Alien Indians.

I think there's a good chance there is other life in the universe but they are hiding.

I too think the smarter species will hide from others. On that note/topic I can’t recommend the book series ‘The Three Body Problem’ highly enough…was a great read likely to be ruined by Netflix soon…
 
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Lucky kid! 😀 I wish my dad was handy with a soldering iron back in the seventies!

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I too think the smarter species will hide from others. On that note/topic I can’t recommend the book series ‘The Three Body Problem’ highly enough…was a great read likely to be ruined by Netflix soon…

Brilliant books! - although I'd probably have been happier if it finished with book two - that ending was incredible.
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Lucky kid! 😀 I wish my dad was handy with a soldering iron back in the seventies!



Brilliant books! - although I'd probably have been happier if it finished with book two - that ending was incredible.

I have read all three books twice now, the first time in English and then in Chinese (a second language for me). I do hope that Netflix does them justice. Liu Cixin, the author, is a huge fan of Asimov and western Sci-Fi but a brilliantly original writer unto himself.
 
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