A while back I mentioned that the world had changed. In fact, within 6 months the world as we know it is going to come to an end. This is not a 2012 prediction, nor is it a joke. This is a fact that every expert agrees on, and even non-experts. Today, another milestone was passed bringing us closer to the end of the world as we know it. While certain media outlets have been covering this, the majority of the mass media is hardly speaking a word about it. Even though it ... well, I mean it's the fucking end of the world as we know it! Don't you think you would like to know about that?! Here is an actual youtube video of the progress of the destructive forces at work.
In about 6 - 18 months (hopefully sooner) these guys are going to start flying commercial passengers into space. Now, while current regulations require that the spaceships land at the same place they took off, those regulations are surely going to be changes very soon.
And by regulations I mean insurance regulations and policies. With every ticket you buy on an airplane, a huge chunk of it is just plain ol' insurance. Insurance that if there's a problem with the flight and you die, if the airline is sued, the insurance will pay for it and the airline can keep functioning. All airlines need that. Even ones that go into space.
As of right now, no insurance company will insure an airline that goes above the 100km barrier that legally defines space from the atmosphere due to the stigma of flying astronauts into space. The only exception to that is that in New Mexico, legislation was recently signed into law that makes it virtually impossible for anyone, no matter how deep their lawyer buying pockets, to sue an airline operator for any damages if something goes wrong. As long as the operator only lands in the same spot you took off at, it's legally flying for sport, be it if you pay for the flight or if you fly your own airplane. Once you're doing it for sport, that's a whole different ballpark. These laws won't take too long to change though.
It's kindo sucky that the biggest limiting factor in getting regular airline service into space is just that the airlines all need to save a bundle by switching to Geiko, but it's the sad truth. The real problems with getting a space operating airline going isn't the technical aspects of making an airplane that can go into orbit. It's a financial one. The airline needs to have a profitable business model or no one's going to dump their money into it to fund development of the spacecraft.
Well, unless you're nuts like Sir Richard Branson. I like that guy. If I ever stop working at the place I'm at now, I wanna work for his company. I don't care if he actually is nuts and his companies aren't fiscally viable. The guy's got balls, and I like that.
Oh, at some point in this journal entry you might have thought "the fuck does this have to do with the end of the world?" Well, quite simply, you've never known a world where you can go anyplace on the planet within a half hour. I mean, shit. It takes me a half hour to get to work and I work just 6 miles from my house. Just wait until it only takes that long to get from Los Angeles to Sydney. It's going to make just as significant a change to our world as the internet, the car, and the Boeing 707 did. I'm extremely fucking excited about this.
In about 6 - 18 months (hopefully sooner) these guys are going to start flying commercial passengers into space. Now, while current regulations require that the spaceships land at the same place they took off, those regulations are surely going to be changes very soon.
And by regulations I mean insurance regulations and policies. With every ticket you buy on an airplane, a huge chunk of it is just plain ol' insurance. Insurance that if there's a problem with the flight and you die, if the airline is sued, the insurance will pay for it and the airline can keep functioning. All airlines need that. Even ones that go into space.
As of right now, no insurance company will insure an airline that goes above the 100km barrier that legally defines space from the atmosphere due to the stigma of flying astronauts into space. The only exception to that is that in New Mexico, legislation was recently signed into law that makes it virtually impossible for anyone, no matter how deep their lawyer buying pockets, to sue an airline operator for any damages if something goes wrong. As long as the operator only lands in the same spot you took off at, it's legally flying for sport, be it if you pay for the flight or if you fly your own airplane. Once you're doing it for sport, that's a whole different ballpark. These laws won't take too long to change though.
It's kindo sucky that the biggest limiting factor in getting regular airline service into space is just that the airlines all need to save a bundle by switching to Geiko, but it's the sad truth. The real problems with getting a space operating airline going isn't the technical aspects of making an airplane that can go into orbit. It's a financial one. The airline needs to have a profitable business model or no one's going to dump their money into it to fund development of the spacecraft.
Well, unless you're nuts like Sir Richard Branson. I like that guy. If I ever stop working at the place I'm at now, I wanna work for his company. I don't care if he actually is nuts and his companies aren't fiscally viable. The guy's got balls, and I like that.
Oh, at some point in this journal entry you might have thought "the fuck does this have to do with the end of the world?" Well, quite simply, you've never known a world where you can go anyplace on the planet within a half hour. I mean, shit. It takes me a half hour to get to work and I work just 6 miles from my house. Just wait until it only takes that long to get from Los Angeles to Sydney. It's going to make just as significant a change to our world as the internet, the car, and the Boeing 707 did. I'm extremely fucking excited about this.
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