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Did this in '68 on a tab of acid and a couple of bong rips while listening to Steppenwolf's 'Magic Carpet Ride'.
then in 69 Woodstock hit those were the days man
😂
You stayed up higher than 5 seconds though
😅🤣
Funny cause it’s true
give it about 70 years, and the price to fly on one of these things will be like $500
I'll 100 then ...hope it's sooner ...
Give it 10 years
I'd be dead by that time
Give it 70 years and there won't be any resources to make rocket fuel anywhere on earth. And we are probably all going to be dead from heat strokes, lack of food/water and global mass uprisings. The cray that has gotten into the USA seems to be spreading all over.
70 years?? I think you mean 500 yuen.
It took them 17 years to go to the upper atmosphere? Sheeh, I can do that overnight with some mushrooms
They never left Earth
@@KINGSPYDAMUSIC But this dude on shrooms surely will hahahah
@@Genesongx factsss
@@KINGSPYDAMUSIC good to know.
I have no sound, the subtitle say edge of space.
YES !
cool but something about this doesnt seem as spectacular for the human race as the space x launches. I just see a rich person developing a rich persons ride.
You jealous?
That's what they used to say about air travel when it was first commercialized.
@@adhisboucha295 curious to understand your train of thought on how this is comparable to the commercialization of AIR TRAVEL. this doesn't serve any productive purpose that hasn't already been filled.
@@Taskforce1 the push to stay in space longer may lead to new space plane technologies and extremely fast travel on earth
They push the green new deal while they burn a million gallons of fuel on a joyride
Besos is on his kitchen floor kicking crying and screaming-cause he's #2 forever.
*Bezos
*Gayzos
I'm sure he's probably filing a lawsuit against Branson and Virgin Galactic, too. That's what he typically does when he comes in second.
Along with muskrat and her fanboys.
He can go cry on one of his ginormous yachts while he treats his workers like servants.
Imagine how eerie that space craft would look in the sky without the “virgin” letters o.O
They otta make another version without the text. It’d look even cooler up in the sky afterward 😎
Q
Comment iq level: 53
Very true
This is basically just an expensive version of the vomit comet.
Except this goes into space
@@joshuawilliams2487 but it didn't.
Waste of tech brains.
I need a water pipeline to lake meade.
🤦♂️
@Susan Wojcicki That's because they tried breaching space and failed, several times.
@@weirdmatter I get it now. Couldn't make it to 100 klicks so they said "Let's redefine the boundary"
It’s like telling me you’re going into the ocean and you only got your ankles wet, come on man.
I know right! That dam multi million dollar glider doesn't have Teflon materials for reentry and they saying its space flight🙄
@@luckymanhndrsn7222 they left the earth's atmosphere.
I'd call that a "Space Dip" but I guess they might of gotten worried about what I read on another post, "there was a lot of space junk hitting vehicle".
@Keith David 🏆 you won!😂😂😂
Toes. Not even ankle.
Could have built clean water wells for all the countries that needed them.
But.... 3 minutes of space.
Bill Gates does that
These same millionaires/billionaires got those wonderful 2017 Republican tax cuts. Nice.
@Person Noname blame your government for that they choose to not improved anything
@@Mark_Chandler and Bezo"s ex wife
Hilarious how many people are hoping for a catastrophic failure during flight, I guess nobody can relate to being richer than most nations.
RIP Flat Earthers
They will still come up with ways to perpetuate their stupidity.
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“This was fakes”
Do those idiots still even exist? We’ve had planes and rockets for decades, how is it possible to continue with that nonsense in this day and age?
@@jasonvegan5761 they think it’s CGI and think the footage is fake.
Didn't we do this in the early 60's? Next up, bringing back the steam locomotive.
Not like this, a plane ride to a tower drop ride to ignition and the push you feel in the seat then weightlessness, this is more futuristic than the standard rocket with pod
@@TheDaexiled1 You never heard of the X-15, did you? First flight was in 1959. It flew up to 67 miles high (higher than him or Bezos will go). I guess I was wrong, they are using 50's technology. lol
Not even the same thing
@@Polarcupcheck X-15 was built and funded by a private member of the public was it? No it wasn't - you are comparing apples to oranges
@@jasonpapai73 It was all tech developed from tax dollars in the 50's and 60's. It is about as impressive as an average person buying a bat made of aircraft aluminum. These guys are also getting major help from the government on the down low, or if you are like Bezos (with Pentagon contracts), not so down low.
Why is this impressive? The X15 went to 344000 feet in 1962. And the X15 looked badass.
Don't get me wrong, this is awesome. But take a look at the X-15 project back in the 1960s. It accomplished the goal of crossing the Kármán Line repeatedly, and functioned much the same as this.
Happy for Branson and Virgin Galactic that they got to experience this. Strange that far greater accomplishments have been achieved without much recognition.
Those early space flights were for trained astronauts. The point of this is that ordinary people without any experience can one day do the same.
These planes will be more safe and reusable.
Hey we went to the moon in 1969. Still trying to figure out how to do that again...HaHa. Most powerful rocket was the Saturn V built in late 60s. Still trying to top that :)
its all a scam. just like everything else. this is for the global elite only. where do you think the rich are gonna hide during the next pandemic or the ensuing economic collapse or nuclear war? years ago, the muppet show had a segment called "Pigs In Space." little did we know this was a foretelling of future events.
branson is a damned criminal. why isn't he in prison yet? he's as bad as musk. why isn't he in prison yet? they're both as bad as trump. why isn't he in prison yet? oh, i forgot. i live in the u. s. where our lying, thieving oligarchs are free to commit crimes, get rich off their crimes and are even praised for the crimes they commit. how could i forget?
Media is all over Bransons money making stuff but paying no mind to NASAs ARTEMIS Program? Wtf
ARTEMIS I is set for November 22 2021, ARTEMIS III will be in 2024 and will establish a perminant human presence on the moon and the first women will walk on the moon, hence the name, ARTEMIS is the twin sister of APOLLO. SpaceX got the contract to make the lunar lander fron their 'Starship' nd are doing so in Boca Chica Texas where SpaceX is making an entire town focused on space travel called 'Space Base'.
Artemis will also create a new lunar space station called 'Gateway'.
1969-1971: Man walks, drives, and plays golf on the moon.
2021: 3 minutes in "space".
THats how u kno we never went there back then 😂🤣
1969-2020: only for trained astronauts
2021: inexperienced rich people
2021-forward: ordinary people
you're missing the point here...
@@TheYellaboy72206 or ever
LOL!! I was thinking the same thing!!! 😂
1969: 100 billion dollar budget, 10000 people working, 10 years in the making,astronauts professionally trained for 10 years
2021: 100 million dollar budget, 1000 people working, 10 years in the making,rich passengers who have never studied or trained for space travel.
You're missing the point dude.
What?!! Thats it?!! 😳 Let me know when y'all can do a couple orbits or something
Billionaires be like
help starving kids ❌
Go to space ✅💰💰💰
If we get this right we can have homelessness and drug addiction in space in 20 years. Obesity may take a bit longer.
Gotta have goals.😂🤣😂
We already have it in the oceans if uve been following RT😆
Is there any chance that you can be fat before you go to space?
Flat Earthers fly free🤓
OMFG best ever!!!! almost need tp after reading....sadly its highly probable lol
What a historic day to witness that could be told for generations to come. This is one of my happiest day. Cheers from a small pub in addis Ababa Ethiopia! 😊😃
I remember hearing talk of 'Virgin Galactic' even when I was a little kid. Wow,. It happened!
Randomly came across this comment but cheers from a fellow Ethiopian in Houston, TX!
@@BabaBillboard Ohohooo thank you my brother am happy today ain't know why!
Yo baba I am now drinking Jambo Beer, waiting the the European final and following your channel. Happy here! 😊
@@tilethio good day to be happy man! I’ve never tried Jambo I need to when I’m there we’ll go to a pub 💪🏽 but thank you for the follow brother show all your friends and fam
Great job! My only wish is that I live long enough to see a spaceship going to another planet and come back
Sooo they never reached an orbit? They just went up real high then fell? Is that considered "space" now?
Did you not hear it was the "Boundry of space" whatever that means.
If that defines space then Trump went to space because he went way up, President,and then crashed to earth with a thud.
I agree
"Space" only has to do with the altitude. "Orbit" is about sideway speed.
@@alex35agm Because this is about Trump. Evict him from your head. He pays no rent.
Being that it was the first to do it ……should his company still be called Virgin? 🤨
And the ship wore white too ! 🤣🤣🤣
First virgin in space!!!!!! 😆
Network126 like in true virgin fashion …they only got to the TIP of space!!! 😂😂
@@jonl1292 LMAO 😆
ROFL !!!!
Space, the next play ground of the western rich.
They're gonna live in resorts on Mars while us regular people are stuck on stinky old hot venus
The eastern rich too.
Star Trek got it wrong 😑
Here come the comments from the underachievers. All while typing on their cell phones, using technology advanced by the this very type of venture!
Which is very few this flight will probably be $22,000 to fly on
ET looking from their UFOs: "Oh how cute! Look at the humans making another crawl with their fuel burning crafts!"
Everything needs fuel. The problem is getting the RIGHT fuel.
Loser says what?
Branson is like an ape crawling thru a hole in its cage from the perspective of the space aliens...
@@timetryp422 You still drive your Prius daily and are proud of
your achievement, right? Great. Carry on, genius!
Lol, I love how we "have the tech" to go to the edge of space, but somehow can't take pictures from inside the craft to verify.
It's cringworthy the pple in comments don't agree
17 years for 4 minutes of weightlessness?
lol exactly. You can simulate that on earth lol
The level of achievements compared to some other space companies are just minuscule…
@@detraed8962 But he has the chance to really experience it. That is priceless.
Not for him, already 600 to 700 hundred people completed training to go to space , i personaly knw a guy who completed all test to go space wit virgin ,this is the beginning of a new era of space tourism and way more than that .
So what...it didn't cost you anything. So shut up
I watched the video for a while, spaced out, and it didn't cost me one red cent!
what's a red cent? SOVIET MONEY, IVAN?
@@russellzauner he meant a pretty penny
@@russellzauner A red cent was a nickname for the original copper penny since it looked different than all of the other cupronickel minted coins 🪙
@JFlanvers That is by far one of the brightest purest comments I've had the honor perceiving today. My hat is tipped to a fellow traveler.
I believe I speak for all of us: "Whoop dee freakin' doo"
Congratulations Sir Richard.
A life time dream realized.
For yourself and for everyone.
Cheers mate.
Well done.
So much pollution for few minutes of thrill
My favorite thing was seeing the headline of why it was cool for billionaires going to space, and then 3/4 of the page down it was talking about how to get rid of world hunger. 🥺🤷🏾♂️
That smartphone you have could feed many people for many days.
Here come the comments from the underachievers
Facts. There is no "world" hunger. Just left a buffet and the place was packed with supposedly poor immigrants. Places that have basic food security issues have deeper problems. The rest of the world has figured this out.
@@NA-px4nx yeah but I don’t have billions of dollars to play with. Big difference.
1 Dollar a day could feed a person. You could feed some by selling your phone.
One day I'm going to tell my kids about a time when Astronauts were the best of humanity, not the wealthiest .
It's all lies, smoke and mirrors. They show you just enough to make you believe. Why were there not one camera pointing backwards to see that ball we live on???? How much money has NASA stolen from we the people, and what did we get for all that money? Name one thing that was worth 50 million plus a day NASA receives? They steal our money daily. Do a search of president Bush visiting NASA before he died. They didn't even cover up their GREEN SCREEN! Why does NASA need a green screen if not for DECEPTIONS??? THEY SHOW YOU MAGIC TRICKS FOR 50 MILLION A DAY? Tell your kids what they have done....................
Jealous
Billionaire elite burns more fuel in one half hour than most will in a lifetime. Next up: How big is YOUR carbon footprint? And what YOU should be doing to protect the environment.
Actually the fuel is from recycled tires that we already used up. So it's a reuse/recycle system.
This man could End World Hunger Yesterday...but chooses to pollute the Atmosphere instead....Thanks, bud.
LOL
Love how ppl who hate global warming love space flights lol
You tube channel: Eric Dubay....video LEVEL
I 2nd that .
People like innovation not rehashing the same technology for the next 100 years. A few spaceships are not causing climate change.
@@andrewm8063 they are trying to get rid of gas cars and say we need to do it now. Making Tesla cars and Evs, while sending and testing space ships out all the time. Do your research on how how much position one short flight makes vs cars. It’s a crazy high number. Then imagine a ship
@@jaimegutierrez3815 ooo someone is finally doing some research.... Maybe now you can research trump and quit qanon 😆
Good for him. Congratulations to his team.
Announcer: Shhh, quiet everyone... Mr. Branson wants to say something from space...
Branson: That's one small ride for an old man... One giant leap for an old man's bank account.
What are you on about? Branson was a billionaire well before this flight and this flight earned him no money. As for making space more accessible, it's one of the most important things that we should be doing as a civilization.
@@nikitaglushkov8473 ummm...I wasn't going to post my opinion but we need to focus on issues down here on earth. Or are you not paying attention. Most important? I dont think so, a billionaire spending his money on frivolous spending!!!
And kids' tunnels
Hey, I pitched in 72$ towards this endeavour, for the past year and a half of covid, every month I pay my VIRGIN cell phone while not using any of its DATA.
@@nikitaglushkov8473 And.... This was done in 1962 in a badass ship called the X15, without all the pompous fanfare. This is not a step for us regular folks to get into space, just the filthy rich, kinda like a superyacht. BTW, he did not make it to space. Barely the edge.
ALL ASTRONAUTS IN TRAINING: dammit i quit! training is a total waste of time! anyone got $250,000 I can borrow?
Yeah, as soon as I complete the sale of the Brooklyn bridge.
Isn't 250,000 their annual income ?
Lol 😂
A prince from nigeria can loan you that amount. You just need to send him $100 to unfreeze his acount.
Don't forget about the $50k baggage fee.
The scientist below: "Don't blow up, Don't blow up, Don't blow up"
I worked on the runway for these ships back in 2009 -2010
Congrats to Sir Richard Branson and all those who worked on making this happen, very, very cool.
I want to congratulate the young lady narrating this. I could hear the joy in her voice while she was trying to remain calm and professional. Stirred up some childhood ambitions! 🤓
I watched it live… very cool, except the flight is sooooo short!
Too short and that would cost you $250,000
Because it's not space
Well it's just beginning
Yes there should be a happy hour 🍺.
I’m so glad this was successful and they all returned safely. 💯💯💯💯❤️❤️❤️❤️
love your sarcasm
The X-15 was operated under several different scenarios, including attachment to a launch aircraft, drop, main engine start and acceleration, ballistic flight into thin upper atmosphere.
First flight: 8 June 1959. Birth of the television show, The Six Million Dollar Man.
They could of used all this money to solve so many problems down here
It's the same selfishness of the Apollo missions to the moon. Gil Scott-Heron wrote a song, "Whitey On The Moon" back in 1970.
Totally agreed!!
Well, they solved one problem, they wanted to go to space, "with their money" and they did, they didn't use any of yours, did they?
This will solve problems down here just wait until we could profit the Moon the Asteroids the Planets.
Since the beginning of our space program and NASA, there have been many discoveries, some unexpected. What we learned from all those missions improved lives and especially medical treatments. The rewards are not always recognized at the outset but what is learned later can change lives. We wouldn't have TANG without the space program. 🤓
Lighten up, guys. My father, who is no longer with us, would have been thrilled by this feat. Why always looking at the negative? I am smilng because I can picture my Dad's face with a big grin. He was an aeronautical engineer before we ever had rockets! We need more dreamers to imagine what could be.
Would've been great if one of those Tic-Tac ships flew by and said, "hold my beer"!
They (birds cough cough) only appear on blurry cameras
they are watching for sure our planet is a Galactic Zoo called PLANET OF THE DIRT APES !
Winner! 🤣🤣
Lmfao 🤣
🎆 _wow!! This is _*_Historic moment_* 😍
*_greeting from Bali island_* 🌅🌴
_we're indonesia volcano & nationalpark tour organiser._
Rather boring seeing a plane going to the edge of space.
I join in congratulating the success of the flight✈️🚀🚀
We were all supposed to see a live video from inside the plane looking out. Hmm I wonder why they cut the feed on that?
Lol this is only a short clip go watch the entire thing. I have a feeling this has to do with u being a flat earther
@@pacotaco5526 I watched it live. And they were supposed to show live feed from inside the cabin. Obviously you didn't pay attention to the video or skimmed through it. However I have been as high as 90k feet. What I believe has no bearing on what was said to be showed and then..... Nothing... no feed no communication contact, nada.
Meanwhile millions die from starvation and lack of clean water.....
You should go help them then mr savior instead pf writing these types of comments everywhere
There out there flying to space like it's no biggie, me on the other hand who can't even jump of a bunk bed 😂
Conspiracy theory: Elon musk is an alien trapped in earth trying to get home, hence all the crazy advanced rockets/space projects
Yep Aspergers is just his cover.
Elkton musk has aolt of money he could have been in space
No this just goes towards the whole alien s***. They are changing the way we live in what we worship. One day we will be worshiping so-called aliens
Looks like a"green"-friendly vehicle to me. Rules for thee. but not for me.
When they cross the boundary into space we'll hear a word from our founder, Sir Richard Branson. "i just saved 15 percent on my car insurance by switching to Geico."
Correct, since Branson has not crossed that boundary yet.
This is the best definition of technically. Not really there but there.
So many many many many people are suffering. You could help out on a massive scale.
Time to buy the stock
Good luck, you might lose alot of money
Just a amusement ride. Worthless to space travel.
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If this doesn’t work out, Branson can join The Bee Gees
20 minute joyride for $250,000
Sign me up
Sucks that only rich people are gonna be able to experience this.
Commercial plane flights were only for the rich when it first started. Give it a couple more decades and space will be within reach for anyone.
@@tonynguyen6313 especially once Elon Musk gets Starship fully operational.
@@gabrielbennett5162 Which will be on this decade so it's not that far away
Oh! You mean like refrigerators and washing machines and radios and televisions and car phones and battery brick block cell phones? Lol
For now.
We have seen the Edge of Space a Million × Build something useful like showers for the Homeless in California.
Destroy Republicans in 2022 and leave a British billionaire to do what he wants with his money. Maybe ask Bezos or Musk to sort out America.
Now that space travel is safe we can send all our radioactive material into orbit! Hot stuff!
There will always be poor people.
There will always be people that choose to live how they want, by over spending their money for instance.
Feeding people that do nothing for the world is a big financial loss.
@@tomsunhaus6475 no i want the Radio active material to go.into man made 💎 to.produce endless free energy batteries of the future to power cars and homes and through these vessels power everything else we got. I wish they would hurry up because i ain't got all day
@@KuntChitface Jesus Left 2 Key COMMANDS. Love God and Love your Neighbor as yourself. My Job isnt TO JUDGE ALL Homeless my JOB is to Love them and us all OFFERING them a Basic free shower to use only Reflects Our Love for them whether they use shower or not. If it helped and blessed and gave Basic dignity to just 1 human from now unto forever.. Then Blessing that 1 person was worth it. 👍but we both know MILLIONS WILL USE THEM DECADE AFTER DECADE AFTER DECADE AND MILLIONS WILL BE BLESSED WITH Basic Dignity and it was All because of us CARING AND LOVING OUR NEIGHBOR AS SELF. If we didn't love they would have NOTHING LIKE THEY DO NOW
For Aliens, this event is equivalent to us seeing the first flight of Kittyhawk...
Nut
How wonderful he gets to show off his new boy toy! Our society will benefit so much from this! Already the homeless are living comfortably! The dieing are healed! The poor have more wealth than they have ever experienced! We're saved!!!
Why would you spend 17 years AND TRILLIONS to go to THE EDGE of Space? This seems bizarre. .....
Not even close to the ‘Edge of space’ lol
Pretentious AF
Because he can. This is the equivalent of the first man tackling Mount Everest. Why did he do it? "Because it's there." Lol.
This is no walk in the park though. 17 years of work, planning and about 20 minutes of hard prayer. Probably still worth it for him. A non astronaut on the cusp of space! There are men who were boys when the moon landing happened and have been dreaming about it since.
You have to admit this is a smidge exciting.
@@bravo-93 that's what i was thinking, wtf is the edge of space? Space goes on beyond what's observable, so how did he go to the edge?
@@chrislosh5438 more like the edge of the atmosphere
"We destroyed earth. Now on to bigger and better things that represent the black void of my soul and my emptiness....space. Ahh."
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YEP !!!
They always hit a barrier and are unable to cross it always.
This just wonderful...
So how many years of a normal persons carbon footprint does it cost per billionaire?
....virtually no carbon footprint....these engines use N2O (nitrous oxide, or "laughing gas") as the oxidizer....not fossil fuels
What's your carbon footprint in relation to the average chimpanzee?
@@mrizaulait no carbon footprint you say? What about the manufacturing of the shuttle?
@@etacbro7031 ...fair enuf
@@mrizaulait Are you referring to this? - There is a new type of propellant called "hydrid" that is being used by some private companies. Hybrids are a mixture of a liquid oxidizer,
nitrous oxide (N2O), and a solid synthetic rubber (a butadiene) that, when burned in the oxygen-poor environment of the upper atmosphere
produce CO2 and large amounts of soot (which is readily visible in photos of these rockets, because it is black or grey in color) and probably
large amounts of nitric oxides (although there are no measurements in these plumes to verify the presence of NOx). Reference atoc.colorado.edu/~toohey/basics.html
I was utterly underwhelmed.
You'll never be able to leave this planet and you know it.
Getting anxiety and sweaty hands just from watching
Nothing more than a rocket powered air plane, been around since world war.
Rich man's carnival ride.
it sucks being poor doesnt it? lol
@@dayangel885 being poor and having both my feet on the ground, is a smarter thing to me. LOL
i wonder what ecologiste say for this much energy used for a rollocoaster park experience with more intensity ...
The flat earthers are beside themselves LMAO
When you touch the earth on your monitor, it's flat.
That was remarkable with what they did and now what else is the company going to do with their crafts.
With all the dogs---t going on it's a refreshing change of shock information. A miracle of our time only dreamed of by those who believe and expect to receive. Possibly is only opportunity ready to be explored. A magnificent achievement with a purpose following a reason. Gives us all that moment to be humble as we are witness to tomorrow's dreams becoming today's reality.
When will they be coming back (?)... Hope would be same human beings 🙏🏼🙂
They’re back, it was only a 20 second flight.
@@S.E.C-R Thanks 🙏🏼
What
They'll be different, but still humans.
They're Probably already having cocktails in the hangar.
@@alexanderleon4061 She's likely from somewhere NOT in America judging by her name only.
Be nice.
This was way better than Besos flight to space.
Amazing! Amazing! Incredible!
I remember when astronauts used to be highly-trained aviators, celebrated rational heroes, and inspiring role-models. Now, they are just a few spoiled rich-kids playing with their expensive toys. One small step for man, and one giant step on mankind !
For an “E ticket” I’d expect more
If this was live then how did the delay happen when it released? You can see it release twice
I remember learning about escape velocity (mach 3 or 11 km/s) in high school phyiscs. It is what an aircraft needs to escape Earth's gravitational force. So surreal to see it being applied live.
Sorry to say, but then your learned it wrong or forgot the details :-) This thing here obviously does NOT reach escape velocity - because it falls down. You can go to space with any kind of speed, also slowly. The question is: How fast to you have to move away from earth WITHOUT a propulsion when you don't want to fall back down. And Mach 3 is MUCH to slow.
Before escape velocity, there is orbital velocity, wich is about 28000 km/h (Mach 3 is only about 3000 km/h). And you have to move sideways and not straight up. Watch this:
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With higher speed your orbit becomes elliptic and finally, at about 40000 km/h, you really move away faster than you are pulled back so you will never come back to earth.
@@sebastiannolte1201 You're right. Thanks for explaining.
You have to go all the way or it's not that interesting. I mean seeing the planets and everything and earth from space.. that will be mind blowing for regular people to see.
That’s impossible
Yes exactly, at least the full view earth, this flight is just mehh, good job tho hopefully they do more in coming years.
It's a start and more than you'll ever dream of accomplishing.
@@williamtucker7484 how is going further out into orbit impossible?
Treez 93 It's a step forward and far more than you've ever or will ever accomplish.
Is he using Coconut oil as propellant?
One of those launches has the emission equivalent of approx 240000 cars in a month!
@Roger Wilco….all of those electric vehicles that you guys fawn over, have a LARGER CARBON FOOTPRINT than my gas car does. Cmon dude. You have to put hundreds of thousands of miles on an E car before it’s ‘carbon neutral’………facts matter. Oh, and nevermind all the non recyclable materials that goes into them.
@Roger Wilco Supplying energy to how many others and doing what? It's about showing off, a carnival ride for the uber rich. Happy for the little man all the same. Top of the world Mom! Give him a string of pearls. What a hero.
Stop driving your car so billionaires can explore space!
But Bitcoin is bad….
@Roger Wilco CO2 emission calculations in kgs. Energy from coal is about to be done while rockets are being launched ever more often it seems, so that is a moot point.
Biomass burning is the new way. Burning trees like in a giant wood stove….yeah, that‘ll save us all
Dreams do come true - Congratulations
Incredible cameras we’ve got, it could focus on a object moving at 1900 MPH
SNORE, 30 seconds on the edge of space, now take me up for a week and then we have something worth talking about....
The Wright brother's first flight wasn't that long either.
@@evetsnitram8866 They weren't selling rides for 250k either...
@@mikevigil3677 They didn't go up that high either. The point is aviation took off after that.
That room for improvement is exactly what will create competition between these space tourism companies, and result in private enthusiasts funding some worthwhile technology in the long run. Maybe governments can concentrate their resources on the starving millions down below, on global warming, etc. once millionaires and billionaires are voluntarily lining up to fund all this science and technology advancement, relatively free of taxpayer expense.
@@Fuzzybeanerizer Capitalism, the evil that creates and advances human kind to new levels of our potential, so we can look down from the heavens at the little blue rock we call home and try to correct the evils of the gift we have called free will...
“Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement” 🎵
Your moma..
I’m just amazed it took them all these years to finally realize they can design one like a plane
It's not a new concept. Military has developed vehicles like these for decades, this is a private enterprise that's the significant part
Wow that is incredible well done all 💯❤🧡🖤🤍🤎💜💝💚💖💙💛
The name of this company makes me a conspiracy theorist
This "Sir" who has literally done every climate change/ global warming worst nightmares being celebrated by the same channels that relentlessly guilt trip me over showering and using my car's a/c is confusing.
They peaked at 53 miles above the earth, exceeding the 50 mile distance established by the USAF to qualify as astronauts. All for a couple minutes.
It didn't cost you anything. So shut up and watch
Jealous?
You mean all for a couple awesome minutes
All about being "first", free advertising for what is to come, a new industry. This is the verge of the model T, first little black and white tv's, the first cave man to roll a rock and create the wheel, the steam engine, the light bulb, etc, etc.
Which is NOT space 🤣
WOW!! How GREAT is this?! All the BEST HUMANITY!
That is amazing 😊
So it wasn’t JUST Branson then. Multiple people. However one person gets the credit.
Yeah but Branson owns the spaceship.
I want someone to explain to me who is taking the external shots of the mock space ship
U never heard of go pros 😂
Huh?
Blasting rich people to the edge of space with rockets. What a major scientific breakthrough.
I just like that stuff like this drivers new technology