OT Paul Allen Shows Off the World's Largest Airplane For the First Time

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  1. theprunetang

    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    I think it's saved only for that ubiquitous "Home Alone" moment when poor little Kevin McCallister gets left by himself in NYC. We've all been there.
     
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    I skipped school 120 days or so in Highschool, I was home alone a lot.
     
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    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    It all makes sense now.......









    Just kidding. You just left that pitch hanging right in the strike zone.
     
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    bodyman5000 and 1 Lions, Tigers, Me, Bears

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    Crosswinds.

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    Maybe someone's mentioned it but that plane would look so much better with matching pinwheel logos
     
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    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    As do I. The rat race never ends.
     
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    It does when the rats die. It remains to be seen whether they die from rising sea levels, a giant airplane crashing into them, ethnic cleansing by college students, or overwork.

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    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    I'll take all 4 of them at once.
     
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    you forgot apathy and asexuality....rat depression...rat suicide
     
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    Overwork would suck. Ethnic cleansing might at least be interesting.
     
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    Ooh, better.
     
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    Anyone want to start a death metal band called Rat Suicide?
     
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    Lab Rat Suicide just rolls off the tongue
     
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    It's been done.

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    It's interesting that all of you "experts" didn't know that the plane is based on an already successful rocket launch vehicle called WhiteKnightOne. The WhiteKnightOne sucessfully launched SpaceShipOne.

    Paul Allen won the Ansari X-Prize with that vehicle.

    White Knight One -

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    SpaceShipOne on White Knight One -

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    SpaceShipOne hanging in the Air and Space Museum in Washington DC -

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    The Ansari X Prize was a space competition in which the X Prize Foundation offered a US$10,000,000 prize for the first non-government organization to launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space twice within two weeks. It was modeled after early 20th-century aviation prizes, and aimed to spur development of low-cost spaceflight.

    Created in May 1996 and initially called just the "X Prize", it was renamed the "Ansari X Prize" on May 6, 2004 following a multimillion-dollar donation from entrepreneurs Anousheh Ansari and Amir Ansari.

    The prize was won on October 4, 2004, the 47th anniversary of the Sputnik 1 launch, by the Tier One project designed by Burt Rutan and financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, using the experimental spaceplaneSpaceShipOne.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansari_X_Prize
     
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    But I'm sure you guys know more about what will and won't fly.
     
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    I thought this thread was going to be about Paul Allen's penis...thank goodness
     
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  19. bodyman5000 and 1

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    Uhh, fly? Never said it wouldn't fly. Wouldn't be worried about it crashing into a major city if it couldn't fly.

    From all the articles I've read, seems like they don't really have any use for this thing. Everyone backed out it seems.

    Also, I read that Burt Rutan is retired and his company is a corporate entity. Corporations never fail so you're right.
     
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