Lord British on Personal Spaceflight 132
FleaPlus writes "The Space Review has an interview with Richard Garriott (aka "Lord British"), best known as the creator of the genre-defining Ultima series of role playing games. In the interview he talks about his current work as the vice chairman of Space Adventures, and his thoughts on private-sector spaceflight in general. It includes an anecdote about how he funded the initial Russian studies which opened the door for Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, and Gregory Olsen's flights to the International Space Station, but was unable to go himself after the late-90s stock market bubble burst."
wtf (Score:0, Informative)
(oh my god i read the fucking article and laughed my ass off... BIG FUCKING DEAL! as a matter of fact, what a fucking waste of time)
Inevitable Ultima Comments (Score:5, Informative)
Richard Garriot has always been a hero of mine for his ability to make a cool game, feed his family, and pay for his computer education with his series of Ultima titles. Probably most others don't share this perspective. But even though I do regret the consumption of Ultima into nothing more than yet another corporate brand of Electronic Arts, I do have a small bit of nostalgia for the guy who created it even if the modern game does nothing for me today.
It is cool to see someone spending their dot com bubble money on things other than fancy cars.
Re:Hats off to LB for helping average folk into sp (Score:2, Informative)
My interview is better (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23377 [theinquirer.net]
Strangely, after that fateful day by the pool last May, neither Garriot or Spector will get within 100 yards of me, restraining order or no.
-Charlie
Re:Private Sector is already hot on the ball (Score:3, Informative)
Except, you know, communications and earth observation. That's where 99% of the "signs commercial life" go. It's only a trillion dollar industry, nothing big or anything.
I thought he was assassinated! (Score:2, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_British#Assassi
cheers
front
Re:Gotta Love the Russians! (Score:5, Informative)
Read the CAIB Report, specifically Volume 1, Chapter 5 [nasa.gov] Section 5.3 entittled "An Agency Trying to do Too Much with Too Little." The Board found problems with NASA... beurocracy is certainly a large part of it. A lavish budget is not.
Well, that makes sense, his dad was an astronaught (Score:3, Informative)