XCOR Aerospace Plans a Florida Base For Lynx Suborbital Spacecraft 19
New submitter RocketAcademy writes "With the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex as a backdrop, XCOR Aerospace has announced its intentions to establish an operational base for the Lynx spacecraft in Florida. Plans call for XCOR to begin initial operations from a Florida location in 2014 with the Lynx Mark I prototype. As market demand dictates, XCOR may also establish a manufacturing and assembly center for the production vehicle, designated Lynx Mark II."
Good spot (Score:1)
Florida's a good spot for them. There are no mountains for them to crash in to. Nice flat spaces to make very long runways. In fact, there might be a runway of unusual size that the government isn't using very much that they can use. Also, a handy supply of alligators to turn into a reptilian zombie worker army.
Runway of Unusual Size? (Score:5, Funny)
R.O.U.S.? I don't think they exist.
Lynx? (Score:3)
Isn't it time we upgraded our spacecraft to use modern GUI browsers?
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do you want to die just because flash crashed?
I will stick with text based only for spacecraft GUI's for a while still.
plans... (Score:1)
btw believe it or not i'm a (pragmatic) space enthusiast
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just because we call them "laws of physics" doesn't mean the physical universe is always going to obey them
it's worth keeping in mind that we call "laws of physics" that not because we expect the physical universe to obey rules we made up, but because the universe obeys them. If the universe should end up having more complex structure to it than we currently expect, then the new models will become the new "laws of physics", to stay that way unless something better in turn comes along.
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because the universe obeys them
assumption is the mother of all fuck ups
the problem occurs when physicists (and anyone gullible enough to believe them) claim that perpetual motion is impossible because of the laws of thermodynamics, or that nothing can possibly travel faster than the speed of light because of relativity
the laws of physics are useful, but they aren't meant to become a source of religious faith
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the laws of physics have centuries of evidence to support them
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the problem occurs when physicists (and anyone gullible enough to believe them) claim that perpetual motion is impossible because of the laws of thermodynamics, or that nothing can possibly travel faster than the speed of light because of relativity
That is quite accurate except for your characterization of it as a "problem". That is one of the points to models, to be used to make predictions. And I might add here, there is actual evidence against perpetual motion and faster than light speeds. The former that perpetual motion requires a closed system with either no energy loss (something that has never been observed, but could in theory
Interesting... but stupid (Score:2)
The only interesting part is where this group has removed an astronaut-candidate (not?) due to 1: letting a student post pictures of her in lingerie and 2: assaulting/attacking/biting someone and being arrested.
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I support space development, but this is expensive trip that goes up befiefly and down.
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Wake me up when they actually get people into orbit do international travel with suborbitals.
Well, how does one get to that point? As I recall, the modern jetliner wasn't just built one day. It was dependent on many decades of prior development. In a similar fashion, your sexy applications are going to come from less ambitious activities rather than magically appear out of thin air.