Virgin is hiring astronauts - Polidicks

[QUOTE=ThatHippyMan;29138229]Do my +1500 hours in Microsoft Flight Simulator qualify me?[/QUOTE] Experience with MFS and Orbiter should be accepted qualifications. :colbert:

When I first read it, I was :q: But as I clicked it I realized it meant Virgin Media.

I read an article a few years ago about how Virgin would spearhead this privately-funded space-travel business. It even had a picture of a space-capable craft with "Virgin" written on the side. It's cool to see this actually happening now.

It's too bad that there is little funding to promote space programs and technology research. At least this is a step in the right direction though.

SpaceX > Virgin

I'd do it. I hear the experience is quite out of this world.

I just want to get on a flight to see what it's like to jack off in space. [editline]edit[/editline] Woo, 400th post

Too bad there isn't some sort of amazing substance in space that would entice privatization of the space business.

Can I join ? I'm a virgin :dance: [editline]13th April 2011[/editline] :saddowns:

Man, I was expecting some twisted story, like a virgin hiring astronauts to take her virginity while in space.

A commercial pilot license. Yeah, I don't have one of those.

[QUOTE=Mr_Razzums;29142443]Too bad there isn't some sort of amazing substance in space that would entice privatization of the space business.[/QUOTE] What about Helium-3? They can get it on the moon and that's pretty damn valuable.

[QUOTE=Mr_Razzums;29142443]Too bad there isn't some sort of amazing substance in space that would entice privatization of the space business.[/QUOTE] I'm almost willing to guarantee there is. The problem is knowing exactly what it is and developing methods to acquire it. [editline]12th April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Janus Vesta;29143784]What about Helium-3? They can get it on the moon and that's pretty damn valuable.[/QUOTE] I was thinking that as well. Thank you mass effect!

Russia is still leading the space age...

[QUOTE=FunnyBunny;29138193]I really wish I could be an astronaut :( - I've already been accepted to a good university to major in Aerospace engineering, planning to work on Astronautical engineering after that. - I've volunteered for and personally have met my local congressional representative so I've got a pretty good chance of getting the congressional recommendation required to get into the Airforce Academy. - I'm not a bad student, I have a 4.0 as of now. - I love math, I got 790 for my Math II SAT score. - I'm an American citizen but was born in Russia, therefore know the two languages that are most useful in space. - I'm not overweight, I wouldn't say I'm in peak physical condition but nothing a year at the gym couldn't fix up. - I've got 20/20 vision. - I have no terrible health problems that could interfere with the mission. Yet the one thing holding me back? My height. I'm 6' 2'', and if I grow two more inches, which I inevitably will, I'll be too tall to be qualified as an astronaut for NASA. :smith:[/QUOTE] Get over here, I'll gladly hack off an extra inch or two to help :v:

[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;29143784]What about Helium-3? They can get it on the moon and that's pretty damn valuable.[/QUOTE] And apparently it's in abundance at the moons poles and is a much more efficient form of fuel :D

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;29138769][QUOTE=ThatHippyMan;29138229]Do my +1500 hours in Microsoft Flight Simulator qualify me?[/QUOTE] Experience with MFS and Orbiter should be accepted qualifications. :colbert:[/QUOTE] Dont forget Moonbase Alpha

[QUOTE=Rocket Man;29146709]Dont forget Moonbase Alpha[/QUOTE] I can lay down a really "hip" beat with the TTS

[QUOTE=Ihazard;29144266]And apparently it's in abundance at the moons poles and is a much more efficient form of fuel :D[/QUOTE] "Abundance" is a relative term. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3#Extraterrestrial_supplies[/url] The concentration is only 0.01-0.05 parts per million. So you're looking at processing a hundred million tons of regolith just to obtain one ton of helium-3. So to actually make this a viable energy source, you'd need thousands of massive regolith-scraping/refining machines running around the clock, and a corresponding Earth-Moon transportation infrastructure to keep it flowing back to Earth. Needless to say, this is a tall order for a space program that only made it to the Moon 6 times, 40 years ago. Plus you actually have to invent a working fusion reactor that could run on Helium-3, which we only have in very small quantities. So it's a chicken and egg problem, without a reactor there's no point in mining for it, yet without Helium-3 it's very difficult to test and develop a reactor.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;29135377]I read the title as "The vikings had astronauts" what the christ[/QUOTE] They did. Artist's impression of what Apollo 11 [B][I]really [/I][/B]found on the moon: [img]http://seminars.torontoghosts.org/blog/media/blogs/new/vikingsonmoon.jpg[/img]

Me Me, Pick ME!

wait, what? This is real? I thought it was an April fools joke. :frog:

[QUOTE=Greenen72;29142821]Man, I was expecting some twisted story, like a virgin hiring astronauts to take her virginity while in space.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://i54.tinypic.com/1s15pg.gif[/IMG]

Somebody made a thread, or I read an article about Space X that made it look like the future of Space travel was going to be with private companies. I don't really care who does it, somebody just needs to make space travel not look so god damn difficult.

Pretty damn exciting. EVE Online here we come!

I can just imagine the pay for this job.

[QUOTE=Badballer;29179654]I can just imagine the pay for this job.[/QUOTE] Probably ranges in the private sector around $100,000-$450,000

Virgin are money grabbing bastards. They make you pay out your ass to get cable internet.

I can't wait until they open up the second space port at Esrange in Kiruna, Sweden!