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Re: Private spaceship to launch today
flash@work wrote:
> Jolly exciting : > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3811881.stm Indeedy, I've been looking forward to it for a good while now :-) -- Steve "Slider" '02 YZF-R6 |
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"Slider" <steve@somewhere.invalid.com> wrote in message news:4ByBc.17892328$Id.2950629@news.easynews.com.. . > flash@work wrote: > > Jolly exciting : > > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3811881.stm > > Indeedy, I've been looking forward to it for a good while now :-) > Think it'll work? |
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On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:12:49 GMT, flash@work scrawled:
>> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3811881.stm >> >> Indeedy, I've been looking forward to it for a good while now :-) >> > > Think it'll work? One will have to someday. Today's as good a day as any (unless they try to do it right here, the hailstones would put paid to that idea!) -- VFR400 nc30 - Wheee! http://www.noddingdogs.org - find bikers in your area. Visit http://www.rexx.co.uk to email me. |
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"Slider" <steve@somewhere.invalid.com> wrote in message
news:4ByBc.17892328$Id.2950629@news.easynews.com.. . > flash@work wrote: > > Jolly exciting : > > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3811881.stm > > Indeedy, I've been looking forward to it for a good while now :-) AOL. -- Molly "Kneesliders Sponsored by Cane" "Gower School" By Appointment". GSX-R1000 (better), Triumph Thunderbird, GS500, GHPOTHUF#27 TGF, UKRMFBC#7, Two#24, BOTAFOF#11, YTC#9, GYASB#1. SbS#23. DFWAG#2, DS#2, DIAABTCOD#20. remove "thisbit" in the reply http://www.mollyg.net (our own endurance team) http://Team-ukrm.com "Nemo repente fuit turpissimus" |
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On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 14:49:47 GMT, Molly scrawled:
>> Indeedy, I've been looking forward to it for a good while now :-) > > > AOL. Watching the live feed now, I thought it was on it's way down, but it was evidently the plane thingy circling as it went up (camera angle was odd) I saw it launch a few minutes ago - strange blob of vapour, which then spread out upwards as it shot off. The plane is just coming down on it's own now, so the rocket should be due back in about an 30 mins to an hour, I think? -- VFR400 nc30 - Wheee! http://www.noddingdogs.org - find bikers in your area. Visit http://www.rexx.co.uk to email me. |
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Re: Private spaceship to launch today
It's just this minute landed. Yay!  -- VFR400 nc30 - Wheee! http://www.noddingdogs.org - find bikers in your area. Visit http://www.rexx.co.uk to email me. |
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On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:49:47 +0100, "Molly" <Mollythisbit@ukrm.net>
wrote: >"Slider" <steve@somewhere.invalid.com> wrote in message >news:4ByBc.17892328$Id.2950629@news.easynews.com. .. >> flash@work wrote: >> > Jolly exciting : >> > >> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3811881.stm >> >> Indeedy, I've been looking forward to it for a good while now :-) > > >AOL. And it's just landed. Quite exciting really, despite the godawful video from the BBC site. -- The Doctor. RSV Mille R TPPFATUICG#1, IMC#1,AC&UFTFCotFFO[tm] #1, ITJWTFO #1,BBIWYMC #2, GHPOTHUF#3, UKRMHRC#6, DFV #6, YTC #8, DIAABTCOD#9. BOD#8, |
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Rexx wrote:
> It's just this minute landed. Yay! Hoorah indeed! Small, isn't it? -- Steve "Slider" '02 YZF-R6 |
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On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:21:55 GMT, Slider scrawled:
> Rexx wrote: >> It's just this minute landed. Yay! > > Hoorah indeed! Small, isn't it? Very. "Dad, can we take the ship out?" "Only if you pay for the petrol!" -- VFR400 nc30 - Wheee! http://www.noddingdogs.org - find bikers in your area. Visit http://www.rexx.co.uk to email me. |
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Re: Private spaceship to launch today
In article <n2DBc.7044646$iA2.798111@news.easynews.com>,
Slider <steve@somewhere.invalid.com> wrote: >Rexx wrote: >> It's just this minute landed. Yay! > >Hoorah indeed! Small, isn't it? It's a cool thing, for so many reasons. Governments and their ballastic systems? Stuff 'em. Give me something that looks like it was designed by a 1960s comic book artist and actually works... |
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William Grainger wrote:
> In article <n2DBc.7044646$iA2.798111@news.easynews.com>, > Slider <steve@somewhere.invalid.com> wrote: >> Rexx wrote: >>> It's just this minute landed. Yay! >> >> Hoorah indeed! Small, isn't it? > > It's a cool thing, for so many reasons. > > Governments and their ballastic systems? Stuff 'em. > Give me something that looks like it was designed by > a 1960s comic book artist and actually works... I seriously think there must be some very unhappy people at Nasa, who've been saying to their bosses for years, "Look, this is a better way to do things! We could save loads of cash." But have met with the all too familiar reply, "Calm down with your new ideas son, this is the way it's always been done, that's just too risky." -- Steve "Slider" '02 YZF-R6 |
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On 21 Jun 2004 15:33:12 GMT, wfg1001@mrao.cam.ac.uk (William Grainger)
wrote: >In article <n2DBc.7044646$iA2.798111@news.easynews.com>, >Slider <steve@somewhere.invalid.com> wrote: >>Rexx wrote: >>> It's just this minute landed. Yay! >> >>Hoorah indeed! Small, isn't it? > >It's a cool thing, for so many reasons. > >Governments and their ballastic systems? Stuff 'em. >Give me something that looks like it was designed by >a 1960s comic book artist and actually works... *That's* what it reminds me of - I was originally thinking it looked like the Bell X-1, but now I realises it looks more like something Dan Dare or a Gerry Anderson puppet would fly. -- The Doctor. RSV Mille R TPPFATUICG#1, IMC#1,AC&UFTFCotFFO[tm] #1, ITJWTFO #1,BBIWYMC #2, GHPOTHUF#3, UKRMHRC#6, DFV #6, YTC #8, DIAABTCOD#9. BOD#8, |
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Re: Private spaceship to launch today
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:18:32 +0100, "flash@work" <nospam@hotmail.com>
wrote: > >"Slider" <steve@somewhere.invalid.com> wrote in message >news:n2DBc.7044646$iA2.798111@news.easynews.com.. . >> Rexx wrote: >> > It's just this minute landed. Yay! >> >> Hoorah indeed! Small, isn't it? >> >Its not the size that counts, its where you put it. The girls just tell you that to make you feel better. -- Champ GSX-R 1000, GPz 750 turbo, ZX7RR Endurance Racer x 2 GYASB#0 BotToS#2 BOTAFO(T|F)#35 WG*#1 DFV#8 Team UKRM Racing : www.team-ukrm.com |
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Champ wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 16:18:32 +0100, "flash@work" > <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> >> "Slider" <steve@somewhere.invalid.com> wrote in message >> news:n2DBc.7044646$iA2.798111@news.easynews.com... >>> Rexx wrote: >>>> It's just this minute landed. Yay! >>> >>> Hoorah indeed! Small, isn't it? >>> >> Its not the size that counts, its where you put it. > > The girls just tell you that to make you feel better. I've now been told that's true. -- Molly "Kneesliders Sponsored by Cane" "Gower School" By Appointment". GSX-R1000 (better), Triumph Thunderbird, GS500, GHPOTHUF#27 TGF, UKRMFBC#7, Two#24, BOTAFOF#11, YTC#9, GYASB#1. SbS#23. DFWAG#2, DS#2, DIAABTCOD#20. remove "thisbit" in the reply http://www.mollyg.net (our own endurance team) http://Team-ukrm.com "Nemo repente fuit turpissimus" |
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"flash@work" <nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2jnovgF134e6vU1@uni-berlin.de > Jolly exciting : > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3811881.stm Doesn't this thing run on burning tyres and have a nitrous injection system? A bit like the R1 that passed me in Scotland then. -- FZS600 - Silver/Black GS125 - Black/Rust Ford 100E Prefect - Black, naturally Whisky - Aberlour Cask Strength |
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Doc Gonz0 <ukrm@cluebyfour.co.uk> struggled to ejaculate:
>On 21 Jun 2004 15:33:12 GMT, wfg1001@mrao.cam.ac.uk (William Grainger) >wrote: >>Governments and their ballastic systems? Stuff 'em. >>Give me something that looks like it was designed by >>a 1960s comic book artist and actually works... > >*That's* what it reminds me of - I was originally thinking it looked >like the Bell X-1, but now I realises it looks more like something Dan >Dare or a Gerry Anderson puppet would fly. That's exactly what occurred to me - "straight out of Captain Scarlet" was my choice of phrase. -- Pip, Ex - Hairy Gfedcker. RF 900RR, Ruff and Rattly. WS* DFWAG#0 IbW#27* DIAABTCOD#15 GP#0 EKP FUB#4 MKA+E#3 ANORAK#8 MIRTTH#15 BOTAFOT/F#47/34a BONY#13 KotMIB# <space> UKRMRM#14 TWA#2 |
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It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember wfg1001@mrao.cam.ac.uk (William Grainger) saying something like: >It's a cool thing, for so many reasons. > >Governments and their ballastic systems? Stuff 'em. >Give me something that looks like it was designed by >a 1960s comic book artist and actually works... AOL. Pure Rutan, that thing. It was only straight up and down again, though. The real test will come when they or someone else go orbital and have to re-enter properly. I don't think that craft will be the one. -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10 |
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Doc Gonz0 <ukrm@cluebyfour.co.uk> somehow managed to post:
>On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 15:49:47 +0100, "Molly" <Mollythisbit@ukrm.net> >wrote: > >>"Slider" <steve@somewhere.invalid.com> wrote in message >>news:4ByBc.17892328$Id.2950629@news.easynews.com ... >>> flash@work wrote: >>> > Jolly exciting : >>> > >>> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3811881.stm >>> >>> Indeedy, I've been looking forward to it for a good while now :-) >> >>AOL. > >And it's just landed. > >Quite exciting really, despite the godawful video from the BBC site. Excellent stuff. I think I know where I can get rid of that old rear tyre now. -- HooDooWitch (NaCl - Free) http://www.usefilm.com/photographer/51251.html |
