Virgin Orbit - Oh Dear, How Sad, Never Mind

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by El Toro, Apr 4, 2023.

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  1. It is for the employees another British failure for it’s ambition for independent satellite launch capabilities and the hope that Virgin could for. :(

    Never mind we can do what we usually do and pay Russia to do it for us, oh wait maybe not.
     
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  2. Oh no! How will The Sun manage to fill its pages on slow news days now? Every year, especially during the summer “Silly Season” when Parliament is in recess and journos slope off to Tuscany, they’d always run stories about how the Virgin space plane and/or hypersonic passenger aircraft that can circumnavigate the globe in an hour will revolutionise travel and tourism over the next decade. They’ve been republishing substantially the same article for about 30 years, so now they’re going to have to find some other “5 years into the future” techno-bullshit to peddle. My money is on cold nuclear fusion or megawatt batteries that charge in less than a minute.
     
    #3 Zhed46, Apr 5, 2023
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  3. Speaking of virgin and their shitbag broadband….

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  4. That’s a very odd distribution.

    Was that today, because I went to see about getting a couple of tyres fitted to my Shed on Wheels earlier, but they couldn’t give me a price or book an appointment (because their diary is in The Cloud) because their internetz was down.

    The perils of trusting tech and having all your digital eggs in one basket…..
     
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  5. Been intermittent the whole week mate, the same week they’ve lashed all their prices up lol
     
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  6. Virgin's brilliant inexpensive superfast broadband is working perfectly at my house!
     
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  7. I haven’t got it fitted, believe it’s zoom who are the fibre fellas round here. We’re proper Copper wire here still, not a day goes by without there being an engineer at the Green box with his head in there.
     
  8. If the copper does what you want it to for a good price, its all you need!
     
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  9. Don’t worry I think Virgin Galactic is still going (strong?) Orbit is just his commercial satellite taxi service.
     
  10. Ah, that’s a relief! The Super Soaraway Sun’s Summer Science Special is saved :party:
     
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  11. Wonder what has happened to the millions taken in pre-booking :thinkingface:
     
    #12 bradders, Apr 5, 2023
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  12. this is pretty out there but the two other dogs I believe is because he owns at least one entire island in that region, which may be connected back to Uk
     
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  13. Science Fiction
     
  14. They do call USA dreamland for a reason.
     
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  15. Much like DeLorean we (indirectly) probably bankrolled it?
     
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  16. Almost certainly. In this country we have socialism for the super rich (bail outs and govt subsidies) and capitalism for everyone else (fvck you - pay for it yourselves).
     
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  17. Virgin Orbit is (was) privately funded. Virgin Galactic is his proposed shuttle service to the edge of space. That’s what any advance bookings have been taken for.
    All joking apart it’s a massive blow for the British space industry because launching rockets and satellites from height makes perfect sense and we had a chance to be European leaders in this.
     
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