SpaceVidcast Episode 002 - 04/03/2008
In this episode we cover the successful docking of the Jules Verne ATV with the ISS, XCOR trying to make LYNX a reality, the ISS crew swapping out next Thursday, STS-124 mission getting delayed, 8000 Space/NASA employees to lose jobs and the highlight of the show is Virgin Galactic’s Spaceship 2.
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Benjamin Higginbotham and Cariann Higginbotham, Hi!!
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With Spacevid.com coming at you this Thursday April 3rd
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at 7 p.m. LIVE you can join us next week at 7 p.m. LIVE CDT
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every thursday actually, and we’ll be covering some space news
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space information, “SPACE NEWS”. before we get in to that
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i´m a space entusiast, i´ve never been in to space, i don´t work for NASA
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i don’t work for the Virgin Galactica, i don’t work for XCOR, if you can pick any other company
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i probably don’t work for them. i’m just a huge space entusiast, did i say Evangelist
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“evangelist”, do i get a panflet after this session
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posibly….OK.
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and i think that space travel is a fundamental in the future of humanity
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we have to have it, we need to be doing more of it and
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i’m here to give you information as to why it’s important and hopefully
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turn you in an evangelist as well
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Cariann in the other hand. I like Earth…yeah, not an evangelist
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feet firmly in the ground, except for those pictures of the earth from space
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…i like those, yeah..they’re preety
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so my job is to turn her into an evangelist or at least educate her
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and educate you as to why space travel is so incredibly important
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so that’s my roll and when i start going in to acronym mode
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and start turning in to just some guy
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I could just raise my hand and say “i just don’t know whats goin on”
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that’s great. ok. So let’s go ahead and get started with news.
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News. “SPACE NEWS” .. “SPACE NEWS”.
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That’s our opening, what is it, graphic. It’s really good.
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We’ll have one in the future that’s “WOO”. Alright. Right.
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So first the Jules Verne ATV has docked with the International Space Station.
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The ISS. Oh, but woop-de-do. Vehicles dock with ISS all the time.
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The big deal with this one is that it did it automatically.
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All by itself? All by itself. Like a big boy. Pretty much.
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It used cameras and laser-guided controls to actually figure out how to dock
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with the International Space Station. If you want to see that,
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at the bottom of your screen you’ve got a link. Jules Verne ATV docking.
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It talks about, actually it’s the actual docking itself.
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Video of that docking. We had coverage on SpaceVidcast.
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Ah, so you covered it and then recorded it so people could still see it.
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Absolutely, so that is the link at the bottom of your screen right now.
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The reason why this is important, big space news, is that
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we need these types of vehicles if we’re going to go to Mars.
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Because we need to be able to automatically refill other ships
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when at Mars and we can’t have someone on that ship constantly faring
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back and forth. Like hey I’ve got food, water, and air.
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Heh..no sex life. That’s what that means right there.
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Right, so that would be just too many people. So if we can get vehicles
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that will automatically dock with other vehicles we could set up a Mars base
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like the International Space Station and have supplies ferried to them
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without any human intervention. All of a sudden it would just come there
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and they would have their McDonald’s. Like Dharma drops. Exactly.
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Big, big, haha big spaceships filled with Dharma water. Right, right.
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Little parachutes, big wooden crates you don’t really know where they came from.
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So, coverage on SpaceVidcast it was really cool. Check it out.
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And this is kind of the next step in getting humans onto Mars.
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Like Virgle. Like, like Virgle yes. Very good. But real. But real.
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The next one we’ve got is a company called XCOR and here’s their website.
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XCOR is a competition to SpaceShip 2 or Virgin Galactic we’ll be talking about them
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a little bit later in the program. They are coming out with a spaceship
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that will be .. supposedly be flying in 2010.
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Ah ok. They haven’t built it yet, though. I was just going to say .. how far along are they?
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Yeah, I’m not sure how far along they are but I don’t believe they even have a test
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model yet. I think they have a rocket. Oh! Yup, so the XCOR is kinda cool.
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Rocket man. The XCOR is kinda cool. Here’s a shot of it going
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.. it’s a horizontal take-off vehicle. Well it’s not an actual shot of it.
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Well yeah - you’re right. This is an animation. It’s not real yet.
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I was like .. we what? There’s a horizontal take-off.
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Really cool like that. Blah blah blah.
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And then a rocket kicks in and off you go up into space.
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And this is really cool because this is going to help the privatization of space travel.
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I just don’t think that they are going to be able to accomplish this by 2010.
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No! So, it’s just a lot of work and I just don’t see it happening by then.
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Yeah, not so much. Not so much.
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Alright, next in the story we’ve got the International Space Station.
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They are going to be doing a crew swap out. We’ll have live coverage of the Soyuz rocket
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launching from Russia. Oh, ok. We’ve got a Russian rocket taking off
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so we’ll have live coverage of that. And, then they are going to have some crew
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members swap out with the International Space Station. So, we will be covering that.
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We will cover the lift-off, the docking with the ISS, kinda the meet-n-greet
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with the International Space Station. And we’ll cover the landing of it as well.
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So just kinda… All in one fell swoop? Not quite…
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one day they’re gonna go up and a couple days later they’ll dock with the
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International Space Station. They’ll be there for a little while, then they’ll undock
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and unlike the Shuttle which kind of you know, just kind of goes back…
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Want us to show the belly. Yeah, exactly. And go around.
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They take their good ol’ time landing the Space Shuttle, right?
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Hey, you know what? We have procedures. We do have procedures. Ok.
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The Russians are like y’know you’re all undocked, let’s go.
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Just land, you’re good. That’s cool..that’s cool, though.
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Maybe we could learn something from them. Ah, maybe.
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So a few hours after they undock they start their re-entry procedure.
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Very cool. Back to Earth. Speaking of that the STS-124 mission.
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The STS being the space transportation system, which is our Space Shuttle.
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So STS-124, which will be Space Shuttle Discovery has been delayed..
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well it was, ok so, originally it was slated for June 8th
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then it got pulled back to May 25th. Ok. And then they pushed it
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forward to May 30th, I believe it is. Thirty..thirty-one days in May. It’s the last day in May
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and they will launch it then, only if absolutely if everything goes to plan.
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Thirty-one days in May. Alright so May 31st then.
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So, if everything goes to plan then they will launch if anything goes off
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a little bit then. I did that on my knuckles. Yeah that’s great.
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So, they may or may not launch. Even if they make the original date
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of the 8th that will be cool. Again, we’ll have coverage of the on SpaceVidcast.com.
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They are going up to - I believe it is a dual mission. I think they are going up to
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deliver the rest of the Japanese laboratory. It’s a giant laboratory.
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Actually the STS-123 mission they had to their leave boom arm for
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checking the underbelly. They had to leave it up there because they couldn’t
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fit it on the next shuttle mission. Really! Yup, they needed all the room for this lab.
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Wow! The Japanese were like we’re taking all of your cargo room.
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You can’t have anything in there. So I believe they are doing that and I think they
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are doing something with the Hubble Telescope. Nice. Yup.
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And speaking of that and Nasa when the Space Shuttle program ends in 2010,
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there are potentially going to be up to 8,000 people who will lose their jobs.
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We’re going to kill them? No. We’re sending them into space?
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No, we’re not sending them into space. Nope they are just going to lose their jobs
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because we. So nonchalant … eh their just going to lose their jobs.
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Well, maybe right. No big deal. Right, right.
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The Space Shuttle program is ending in 2010
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and in 2015 we’re going to be starting the Constellation program.
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And the Constellation program is the replacement of the Space Shuttle.
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But it’s very different, but at the same time I have a feeling a lot of it’s the same.
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So Nasa kind of says don’t worry about that figure that’s probably not very accurate.
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Ah, we’ll see what happens as we really get close to that. But it was kind a little bit
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of a bummer. That’s a lot of people that could get affected by it. Yeah but they know now right?
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I believe..the press..there was a link. If they don’t know then they should just watch this show.
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Monster.com. Hahaha. That would be my suggestion.
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And thank you to fox814 for sending that particular story in.
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So, we’re going to be talking about Virgin Galactic. Yep.
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We’re going to be showing a little video as to what SpaceShip 2 is.
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And we will be doing that right after this.
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No Audio
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And we’re back with sound. Ta-da! Isn’t that magic.
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It sounds like one of the people in the chat room. Yes?
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Actually had a .. worked in the same office as Virgin Galactic.
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At least where they started. Ah yeah it’s Harold3643.
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Hahaha, I love the random numbers. Well he was HaroldJohnson before.
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But, now you know that we’re going to space we don’t need those surnames as it were.
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So SpaceShip 2 is a privatized venture. Well, actually it was Virgin Galactic
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and the SpaceShip 2 is the project. Virgin Galactic like Vigin Music, Virgin Atlantic
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same guy. Sir Richard Branson. Sir..Sir Richard Branson.
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He’s been knighted? Yes he has.
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And it is thier project for making space travel a reality and for $200,000 you can buy a ticket
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and go into the lower regions of space for four and a half minutes.
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That’s less than Lance Bass paid for. Hahaha
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Well, actually when you look at price of space travel - it’s coming down quite a bit.
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It used to be millions and millions of dollars for a ticket, then millions of dollars per ticket.
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Now we are down to $200,000 a ticket and I think it will keep going down.
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So we’ve got a quick video that fox edited up for us. We’re going to show you really quick
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and it’s all about Virgin Galactic and SpaceShip 2.
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Then we’ll come back and we’ll talk about that.
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Well hello, I’m Richard Branson. We’ve been fortunate enough to have achieved some
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pretty extaordinary things at Virgin over the years. But perhaps none
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quite as amazing as what you’ll see in the next few minutes.
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Virgin Galactic is on it’s way to becoming the world’s first commercial spaceline.
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Our sub-orbital spacetrips promise to be the most intense
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and wonderful experiences that our passengers have ever had.
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We are in the process of optimizing, absolutely optimizing
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the experience that you will have when you fly in space.
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And it’s just going to be fabulous.
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The things that people want to do in space: they want to go there,
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they want the see the planet Earth, they wish to experience weightlessness.
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They want to have a mind-blowing experience.
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The day that Burt won the X PRIZE was a hugely significant one for us.
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When it was all over I remember chatting with Brian Binnie, the pilot on that epic flight.
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He’s an enormously experienced and talented test pilot and a master of understatement.
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It’s got all the right elements that excite the people for all the right reasons.
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The ride up is momentous the view at the top is hugely rewarding.
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The ride back down is pretty spectacular as well.
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Pictures are pretty dramatic, but the eye is so much more dynamic.
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When you combine with the other things going on, the weightlessness, it’s wonderful.
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The … is pretty memorable as well.
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You know I couldn’t have soon forget that. Especially ignition.
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Before you ignite it you are going - you’re indicating 140 knots or so.
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And within 10 seconds or 11 seconds you’re supersonic, so.
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You know you get three g’s on your back instantly when it glides.
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And boy that first 10 seconds is about the most dynamic flying I’ve ever done.
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Haha, there’s this wave of energy flows through the vehicle
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and it is - it’s eye watering. It is eye watering.
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When you look out the window and you see the curvature of the Earth and you can see
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along the edge of the Earth, you can see this thin blue line that is the atmosphere.
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And the colors and the textures on the ground and it’s a mind-blowing thing to see.
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We’re designing our spacecraft so that each of our passengers will have
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the room and the freedom to enjoy the amazing sensation of weightlessness.
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This one will also be large enough to allow those individuals to really experience
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weightlessness, to really experience the beauty of the curvature of the Earth.
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And they’ll be able to see that from any angle in the ship that they’re at.
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And also to be able to experience the real feeling of the power of what it’s like in space.
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While you’re up there you’ve got four to five minutes of zero-g
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and the enjoyment of an environment that you’ve never experienced before.
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You’ve maybe seen it on covers of magazines and now you’re experiencing it firsthand.
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It’s a delight, it’s a wonder. And I’m sure with everybody being loose in there
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they’ll be letting go m and m’s and taking pictures of each other.
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It would just be the most fabulous thing that you could imagine.
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Safety is and will always be our guiding star.
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We were helped enormously in that objective by Burt Rutan’s genius in design and contruction.
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When you air launch almost out of the atmosphere, if you have any issues with the rocket engine
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- you shut it down. You dump the fuel, you glide in and make a normal landing.
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That’s huge, that’s extremely important.
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SpaceShipOne has a unique feathering configuration.
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It can come into the atmoshere at any angle and will straighten itself out.
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Without the pilot having to fly that or without a computer having to do it.
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And this is the first horizontal landing, runway landing spacecraft that’s ever had this feature.
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So we’re immune to accidents caused by flight control failure here on re-entry.
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Our first Virgin Galactic astronauts will be booking their own place in history,
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as pioneers of a new Space Age.
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The video and photographic images they will bring back from the journey
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will be theirs to share with their children and grandchildren.
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they will be fully relaxed and fully trained after a program of three intensive days
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at the spaceport in New Mexico.
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Most of all it will feel, through this experience, that they really have been up there
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where only 450 people have been over the last 45 years.
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I’ll be going to Space, once more my parents and children will be coming with me.
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Best of all, we and I hope you will be traveling on a spaceship
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owned and operated by Virgin Galactic.
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Space is absolutely crucial. It’s our communications, it’s our logistics
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of moving goods and services. And it’s also, most importantly of all -
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the science of what we understand and know about the planet we live on.
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We have great operational experience, which is just going
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to be so important in getting us off the ground.
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You know Richard will do it right. He’s just an incredible entrepreneur and a
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very spectacularly successful airline controller.
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I think to run a spaceline you need someone with that kind of experience.
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Well, I hope you’ll be as excited and inspired by Virgin Galactic’s mission as I am.
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And I’ll see you up there.
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Thanks for the stand by cues. Hahaha.
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So that’s, I think that’s a very inspiring video and when you think about it
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what this is is a way for mere mortals. Rich mere mortals, but mortals nonetheless
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to be able to fly into space. And that’s really the first time that this has been able
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to be done on a consumer level as it were. Right, right.
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As opposed to a giant country. Right. Launching a rocket or a space shuttle
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or something. Or a chimpanzee. Or you know, whatever.
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It’s exciting because there’s a lot of stuff that we can learn from in space.
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Now I’ve gone in SpaceVidcast 1 I talked a lot about how we have too have redundancy,
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and we have to get off of this planet, we have to populate other planets.
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You didn’t share your secret plan? No I didn’t do that. Whew. Couldn’t do that.
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But we got to .. these are things that we need to do and this is the,
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we have to take baby steps to that. You just can’t just say
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“Ok let’s build a transdimensional spaceship now”. Right.
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So I think that this is a great starting point for all of that.
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And I’m really excited for SpaceShip 2 because Sir Richard Branson has
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the financial means to back a program like this. Yeah.
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He’s just crazy enough to be brillant. Yes.
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So he can actually make this go. They did this with SpaceShipOne.
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So they have a test model that has gone up. We know it works with SpaceShipOne,
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we know this works. Now what they’re going to do is turn SpaceShipOne
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into something that is actually comfortable to ride in. Whoo!
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It doesn’t scare you when you get up. How strange. I know. … and turn it into SpaceShip 2.
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We’ll be covering that a lot. You saw a lot of that in our opening video shots.
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A lot of SpaceShip 2 coverage and I’m very, very excited about SpaceShip 2.
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It is my goal actually to do two things. One, you saw it the chat room during the video.
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A lot of people saying “do you get an employee discount?”,
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“do you get a government discount?”, or “a military discount?”.
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And I assume the answer to that is no on all of those.
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My goal - that I’m going to try to work towards. I think he has a daughter, though.
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You could marry into the family. Maybe. Yeah.
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My goal is to get several tickets actually over time.
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But I want to send SpaceVidcasters into space.
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Why not, right?
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if i’m going to preach and evangelize then i should put my money where my mouth is
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and my goal is to raise several..many many several hundreds of thousands of dollars
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as long as your first
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well maybe, i would like to vidcast from space as well, ok
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so i want to get a ticket and then do a live videocast and do this show
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from Spaceship 2, i think that would be actually awesome
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does WIFI get up there, no it has to bounce of the satelites
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Oh, doesn’t mater, WIFI doesn’t work as we’ve learned earlier today
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this is our third version of this chat show by the way
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for those of you watching it on demand we has to go through… oh man
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long fun stuff, the guys at the chatroom can tell you all about it
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i want to videocast from there and i want to send you guys into space as well
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and i wanna raise enough money and then just buy tickets with it
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just buy as many tickets as we can, just keep it coming in and keep buying more and more tickets
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that’s my dream, that’s my vision, i want to put you guys into space
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and i don’t want to charge you guys for it, i’m just going to raffle them away
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just give them away
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….raffle, i guess i’m a little crazy too, lotery, whatever. ok.
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So…that’s a little bit of why we’re here.
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1- 800- speeddad…….spacevidcast.com
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So it’s a…i’ve been ignoring the chatroom; i apologize guys
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yeah…could i win my own lotery, this is true
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i think that…..yeah Cariann needs to work more over time
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i think this is going to be some exiting stuff with spaceship 2
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i think we’re going to see a lot of great things come out of spaceship or Virgin galactic and XCOR
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and whatever ever other companies start doing this stuff - The Google X-PRIZE for putting rovers on the moon.
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And, keep in mind a lot of people don’t understand what the value of space travel is
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and why we should be doing this.
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There is a market there, yeah exactly. There is a market there.
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And, pure and simple - it saves lives. It’s that simple.
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Before we had space travel we didn’t have satellites up in the air that would,
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that would detect for hurricanes and bad weather. And, now we do.
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And, now we use that as a meteor..meteorogical..meteoro. Meteorological.
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That’s a really hard word. ..Tool. So that we can actually warn people when bad weather
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is coming there way and save thousands and thousands of lives.
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Ah, we, we use it to.. well the other advantage is you have to recycle everything in space.
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You have to recycle your air, your water, your.. Waste. everything.
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Everything has to be recycled; we can take those recycling techniques
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and apply them here on Earth and become much more efficient with how we recycle items.
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We have to learn how to become more efficient with our power.
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That will solve energy crises here: get us off of coal energy, get us off of fossil fuels -
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get some clean burning energies. So, there are huge impacts that space travel
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will give us right here, right in your own backyard.
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and an asteroid could hit us and it would be an extinction event, end of story.
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So, it’s a survival thing - we have to do this to survive as a species.
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But, in addition, if we want to live good clean lives -
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this is the easiest and best path to do that. Cause you have to; you’re forced to do it
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in this path. Do you think we have an Area 51 on Mars? Ah, maybe.
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Sorry. A little random. I just figured, you’re living in the desert for the most part.
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Yeah sorta. Ah, so. I think there is a little more pressure on Mars.
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There’s places in the desert. So, Stretch says we already have nuclear energy.
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But, as fox says - where are we putting that nuclear waste?
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And that’s a very good point. We, nuclear energy is actually a very efficient power.
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It’s actually, kind of a glorified steam engine really. Yeah.
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But, it’s a very efficient power system. It’s way better then coal.
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But, there are some hazards in doing that. Nothing that we should be -
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people are a lot more scared of it than they really should be.
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Well, you know, you don’t know enough about something and. Exactly.
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You’ve got the Chernobyl disaster and you’ve got other things. Right, right.
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You know the technology has progressed quite a bit. And that, and that
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facility wasn’t build quite right. Even outside of that you still do have waste.
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They haven’t found a way - the original idea was .. they’d get all this waste and
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then over time the technology would catch up for them to figure out a way to break it down.
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Right. We haven’t found a way to break it down. Right. So… uhhh? Whops.
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So that’s nuclear fission.. yeah that’s nuclear fission, I believe.
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So, nuclear fusion is another thing we are working on and space batteries and things like that.
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Gathering and harnessing the Sun’s power, beaming it from the Moon back into Earth
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is a much stronger beam. Because the Sun moving through the atmosphere we lose a lot of it.
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So there are a lot of really cool things that we could be doing with this stuff.
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This isn’t going to be like Apple Universe, right?
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Where everything is going to be like space batteries, space chairs, space food,
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space socks. No. ..space waste. Hahaha. No. No. Good.
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Alright, so that’s pretty much it. I was going to have really cool credits
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and a creative comments thing at the end, but those aren’t ready yet.
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So. Cool credits here. Do.do.do.do.doo.do.do.doo.doo.
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I’d like to thank fox814 for editing down the Virgin Galactic video,
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which is available on Virgin’s website, which is…
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I don’t think I posted thier url. I’m sorry.
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So here’s their url - VirginGalactic@VirginGalactic.com
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You can go into the press section and you can download the full version
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of that video, which is a full 10 minutes long. A little bit long for our show,
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but I think you got the gist of it. And you can actually see a bunch of really great images.
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I think we’ll work on some desktop backgrounds and stuff for you guys.
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Yes, yes. Get some cool things out there. This show is liscenced under Creative Commons -
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share, share alike. We only thing we ask is that you don’t remove the banners at the bottom
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- you leave our logos up there. But, otherwise put it on your website, get the word out there,
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do whatever you want with it. Cut it up, use it, however you want.
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We encourage you to reuse this video because - like I said we are evangelizing this.
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I’m not doing this to line my pockets with money, I’m doing this to get a bunch of
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people interested about space travel. And, figuring out how to do this
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and it’s going to be expensive. But, I think it’s worth every penny.
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I think the future of the human race depends on it and we need crazy people
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like Sir Richard Branson - I’m not quite as crazy, but people like me.
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You’re working on it. I’m working on it - I’m gonna make it go. Hahaha
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I’d like to thank everyone for watching. Thanks everyone in the chat room.
