Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo: the video unveiling

You've already engrossed yourself in the media reports stemming from Mojave Spaceport, but if you've been hunting high and low for a few good frames of the SpaceShipTwo unveiling, look no further. Our homeslices over at Gadling were on hand for the event, and they did the honors of filming the introduction as well as the craft's first public movements. Hit that source link for a look, and be sure to check your pulse if you aren't feeling inspired when the credits roll.

[eikon805 Posted Dec 10th 2009 7:55PM]

people don't seem get the point,
this is just the first step. take a look at "Richard Branson Shares Eco-Vision of IT in Space" at Wired. Branson's idea is to develop a cheep, reliable vehicle for getting satellites in orbit, and move the server farms that run the internet into space.
in the meantime sending people into orbit for $200000 a pop, Brilliant!!!

[nate345 Posted Dec 10th 2009 8:58PM]

@eikon805
And what would be the benefit of server farms in space besides the obvious downsides?

[incognito Posted Dec 10th 2009 9:44PM]

@nate345, something along the lines of `natural` superconductors comes in mind - isolate the thing properly from sunbeams and you get just a few dozen of Kelvins without the need for liquid nitrogen/hydrogen for cooling. And if you keep the `farm` in geostationary orbit and always in the shadow of Earth, you don't even need to tamper with complex problems of isolation. The only downside, obviously, is harvesting enough power to run those things (then again, when using superconductors you don't have much loss) and the communication delay of around 253ms in one direction.

[incognito Posted Dec 10th 2009 9:51PM]

Scratch that part with geostationary orbit and the shadow of the Earth, it's 4am here and I didn't think straight (blush)

[Maverick128 Posted Dec 10th 2009 11:35PM]

@nate345 I assume they wouldn't have to worry about keeping the servers cool?

[(Unverified) Posted Dec 10th 2009 10:41PM]

supreme idiocy... there oughta be a minimum 50% tax on this nonsense

[ppt123 Posted Dec 10th 2009 10:58PM]

So ...when this is gonna be on Priceline's " name your own price" deal?

[NotZura Posted Dec 11th 2009 12:35AM]

This looks shopped.
I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time...

[Wwhat Posted Dec 11th 2009 2:03PM]

@NotZura
there is a video link if you click the source you know.

[murc Posted Dec 11th 2009 12:54AM]

It looks great. Glad to see spaceship 2 complete...and I cat wait to see it in space.

[dan Posted Dec 11th 2009 9:33AM]

So cool. Oh, dang it sign me up.

[timmm Posted Dec 11th 2009 12:05PM]

hey can i take it in 2012 ? lol...

[keithwwalker Posted Dec 13th 2009 6:44AM]

The line for becoming an astro-naught starts here
http://www.hulu.com/watch/113216/saturday-night-live-potato-chip