Copenhagen Suborbitals is a Danish start-up company trying to make space travel affordable, assuming that you have no desire for creature comforts. Basically you're squished into a tiny nose cone and shot into the upper atmosphere. Sort of like when you were a kid and you put your brother's pet hamster into a model rocket and launched it.
Link via Geekologie
Link via Geekologie
Last wensday I was in the 3rd submarine he has build, taking the first dive in it.
The Uc3 nautilus is 18.5 meters long and 32 tons.
Here we are sailing into the sunset ;)
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By the time the rocket turns off, you'll be in no state to take souvenir snapshots of your back garden. Most likely you'll be dead already.
The prize goes to Mooncake, with Giachetti a close second.
...um, yeah...Definitely pass.
--TwoDragons
Anti-grav "pressurized suits keep the blood in your head. As well as breathing training which equates to grunt breathing to force even more blood into the head will negate the passing out.
Also, do you really think someone who is not given a Class A physical will be allowed to fly. Hell, Richard Garriott just went to the space station. Pilots for jets in the military are given the same training and physicals.
Next time read a book other than Gayboy.
Ever ride roller coasters?
Most exceed 3g. Do you pass out on them?