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Richard Branson Space Flight
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He aims to be in suborbital space for four minutes. This will cost approx £434 million. I know it is his money and he can do what he likes with it but I can’t help feeling how this sort of money would pay for new hospitals, new prisons, etc in this country and so much more instead of an idiotic flight which will achieve nothing. What a plonker.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.he could have decided to put the money into a hospital. but £434m won't get much of a facility - as an example it cost £1.5bn to rebuild barts - but assuming it gets built, then what? It costs about £2000 per day per bed to run a hospital, so for a 120 bed hospital (not huge in the scheme of things) that's about £87m per year someone has got to find. Who's going to pay it?
Space Tourism has the promise to be a very lucrative business.
£434 million Is an investment on future profits.
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£434 million Is an investment on future profits.
You can watch here at 3:30pm
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His website says: "We are at the vanguard of a new industry determined to pioneer twenty-first century spacecraft, which will open space to everybody — and change the world for good."
I get the bit to the left of the hyphen being a loss-leader. Not sure about the implied philanthropy of the bit to the right of the hyphen, though.
I get the bit to the left of the hyphen being a loss-leader. Not sure about the implied philanthropy of the bit to the right of the hyphen, though.
Yes it's certainly his dosh to do with as he wishes. However, the money it has taken to get the hardware ready is phenomenal. As well as that, the craft is really a passenger version of the North American X-15 rocket plane. This performed almost 200 similar flights, launched from a mother ship to more than 50 miles high (67 miles in one case) for some flights. But it went higher, was twice as fast and did it sixty years ago.
I've no doubt it is a huge technological achievement and I know that from humble beginnings much often results (e.g. the Wright Brothers' flight to commercial aviation). But I'm struggling to see what benefit, other than pure amusement, will come from this venture.
I've no doubt it is a huge technological achievement and I know that from humble beginnings much often results (e.g. the Wright Brothers' flight to commercial aviation). But I'm struggling to see what benefit, other than pure amusement, will come from this venture.
Bezos is off too next week, with the world's oldest astronaut - Wally Funk, who trained as one but wasn't allowed to go anywhere because she was female.
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VirginHealth shouldn't pay a penny more in taxes than they're forced to, same as me or anyone. The problem is with governments too shy to ask them for money while only too eager to hound the poor
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