http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Jul 26th 2008 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Jul 26th 2008 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Jul 26th 2008 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Jul 26th 2008 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/What? Are you kidding me? These two organizations have two totally different goals. Pretty sure these guys here are here to make money.

I suggest you go to the NASA website to see what they are up to.

Can't believe you said "They got into space with a very safe design in a much shorter time than NASA". That's fucking upsetting. You might want to look at the years NASA first went into space.]]>Jul 26th 2008 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/
For instance, how much do you think one Maine sized asteroid is worth? How many billion for mining one, if we drag it into earth's orbit? There are many more example of this, resources in space that can be used to benefit man kind, and all we have to do is get the abilities to go up there and get it!

Making money from going to space is not a bad thing. The money made benefits people, and everyone on the whole earth in the long run. Besides that, what about the technological advances?]]>Jul 26th 2008 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/What's so fucking upsetting? They do have a very safe design. And they did do it faster than NASA (of course, they had years of research done by others to draw upon). I never said they had the same purpose as NASA. I was just refuting the idea that SpaceShipTwo was in any way unsafe or that this project was a bad idea.

And you can't deny that NASA's innovation nowadays is basically nill. It's so bad that some NASA engineers are moonlighting on competing rocket designs to the Aries. I love NASA and everything they've done, but they need to get back to their roots and keep moving forward.]]>Jul 26th 2008 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/
That's the Robinson way!]]>Jul 26th 2008 7:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Jul 26th 2008 10:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/
I don't know everything that they are doing but from the top of my head I can think of the Ion Propulsion(Deep Space 1 which uses it set the fastest speed by a spaceship) drives that they are improving, the probe that only recently landed on mars, probe that landed on Saturn's moon Titan, the probe that intercepted a comet and brought back grains of dust, a probe that is propelled solely by the power of light(not solar power), tons of research in weather prediction. Wow what else?]]>Jul 27th 2008 2:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/
That's the risk when you're a pioneer.]]>Jul 27th 2008 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Even the shuttle can only get to low orbit incidentally, but it can carry a self-propelling device that gets itself deeper into space, if it's not too large or heavy that is.
In short this won't lead to 'mining asteroids', that's apart from the usual issues of our inability to alter the path of asteroids and inability to get freight through such distances at a cost that would even get close to being thinkable.
]]>Jul 27th 2008 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/So how's pulling in a Maine sized asteroid into earth's orbit a good thing? ]]>Jul 27th 2008 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/
As noted by Wikipedia, the accomplishments of SSO are more comparable to the X-15 project than to the Space Shuttle. The Shuttle was first launched 27 years before SSO, and does a hell of a lot more than it – orbits, reenters, keeps several astronauts alive for days on end, ferries materials & personnel to the ISS, launches satellites, conducts repair operations, etc. Yes, two have been destroyed (in 31 years), but they've conducted 121 launches... compare that to SSO's handful.]]>Jul 27th 2008 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/
Yeah. It's like playing Oregon Trail. I'd want someone with a lot of money on my team.]]>Aug 5th 2008 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Jul 26th 2008 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Jul 26th 2008 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Jul 27th 2008 3:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Jul 26th 2008 1:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Jul 26th 2008 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/
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This is a business....to make money. Just like any other. They're creating a product they intend to sell and make money off of, not trying to pioneer the next step in human evolution. It's just entertainment.

You know what else is a business whose intent is not to pioneer society? Merry-go-rounds. Why are you here in this post when you could be picketing outside a merry-go-round factory because they are spending money that does not evolve society?

In fact, why are you here at all? Capitalism is clearly not something you approve of.]]>Jul 27th 2008 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Jul 28th 2008 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/tmi, i dont want to know you and your partners roleplaying plots.]]>Jul 26th 2008 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Jul 26th 2008 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/That whole NASA thing was built on not being SECOND to Russia. Let's be the FIRST to get a man in space. Let's be the FIRST to get a man in orbit. Let's be the FIRST to get a man on the moon. We have to beat those lousy Russians to prove how great we are at being FIRST. Well the Russians went broke FIRST and America's poured trillions of dollars on technology that may or may not have paid back some of the cost. I don't give a crap about living on the moon or Mars.

Let the rich people pay their money to fly around at the fringes of space since they have nothing better to do with their money except gaze down upon an increasingly polluted planet and yell FIRST TOURIST IN SPACE. Although I think an American already paid the Russians for that honor, but it wasn't in first-class style.]]>Jul 26th 2008 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/
Less, in fact.]]>Jul 26th 2008 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Jul 26th 2008 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Jul 26th 2008 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Jul 26th 2008 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Jul 26th 2008 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Jul 26th 2008 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/Jul 27th 2008 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/
1) Stupid screen-name x
2) Thought a plane with
engines can go into
outer space x
3) # 2) implies that he
still does not know
that there is NO AIR
in space (ergo no
engine will work there) x
4) Didn't see the space
shuttle x
5) Double posted...


Yes, I think it's safe to assume YOU FAIL!]]>Jul 27th 2008 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/
There's so much racism in society still. Why is even necessary to mention the color in name? How would people feel if this was named BlackKnight?

The racism makes me sick.]]>Jul 26th 2008 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/26/whiteknighttwo-to-be-unveiled-on-monday-space-to-seem-less-far/
Whatever you do, don't go watch the new Batman movie.

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