flatorange: There goes another one: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/31/spaceshiptwo-richard-branson-virgin-crash-mojave
Scepti: Looking forward to your analysis.
My god, where do I start with this ridiculous piece of absolute shit.
I'll start off by saying that it's one hell of a clever ruse, isn't it, before I pick this apart.
I mean, all those people who've paid into this now have to wait for however long before they find out the problem. Funny as fu**.
Ok, now I'll put up the story, as the photo ....well, I don't think I need say anything about that pile of crap.
The story.
Witnesses reported the spacecraft broke apart soon after it was detached from the launch plane that carries it to 45,000ft. Rescuers found one of the pilots dead on the ground. The other, who appeared to have deployed an emergency parachute, was airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries.
Witnesses seen it break apart at 45,000 feet?
One pilot deployed a parachute after the plane broke apart? So let me get this straight. This plane flies to the edge of space and all the passengers are equipped with parachutes. Does the actual cockpit detach, plus the fuselage to allow this? Can you picture the scene. " Ermmm, what happens if there's a malfunction at the edge of space?"..."no problem, we just jettison the top of the plane and you do a Baumgartner back down, holding your breath , then deploy your chutes, silly." 
Virgin Galactic said that SpaceShipTwo was powered by a fuel mix that had not previously been used in flight, although it had been tested extensively on the ground. The company was unable to say whether the change to the fuel mix offered an explanation for the accident, which happened just before 11am local time.
How long have they been pissing about with this effigy?....and suddenly they try a fuel mix, never tried before? What the actual fu**... It's like telling a hang glider enthusiast that you made his canopy out of a woollen blanket that looked ok on the ground, so just try it out. The crash served as another stark reminder the dangers of space exploration, three days after an unmanned rocket on supply mission to the international space station exploded seconds after takeoff from a Nasa launch facility in Virginia.
Yeah, it's also a stark reminder for people put dig a bit deeper into their pockets until the thing goes bust and they lose it all, to be replaced by a new bunsen burner strapped to the back of a brave Baumgartner wannable, piggy backing willing customers into orbit for 10 minutes, which will also malfunction, leaving the test astronaut dead in the sahara desert with a picture of a bent, still smouldering bunsen burner, just putt putting. “Space is hard, and today was a tough day,” said George Whitesides, CEO and president of Virgin Galactic, at a news conference. Branson was on his way to Mojave and would arrive on Saturday, he said. “We are going to be supporting the investigation as we figure out what happened today and we are going to get through it,” Whitesides said.
Space was piss easy not too long ago and now it's back to being a challenge. Baumgartner pissed it in a balloon for crying out loud, didn't he? 
Luckily they're going to get through it, they will have a Russian back up one that they just happened to be testing in the outer reaches of Siberia, probably, so keep your wallets in your hands, we always get through this stuff. Ken Brown, a photographer who witnessed the accident, said that the craft exploded after it was launched from the carrier vehicle. “They separated, the rocket seemed to start fine as it’s done in the past three tests, then there was a big puff. We could see that major pieces were coming down.”
So this photographer witness just happened to be in the right place at teh right time, obviously trecking in the mojave desert at the exact time this effigy seperated from it's mother plane then he saw a puff of smoke at 45,000 feet, then saw chunks falling? ...who in the hell writes this stuff?Messier, a blogger who runs the website Parabolic Arc, which reports on space news, wrote on Twitter that he witnessed the crash from Jawbone Station, which is on a ridge overlooking the desert where the craft crashed. “We saw the twin contrails of WhiteKnightTwo overhead. They do that prior to a drop,” he tweeted. “SpaceShipTwo dropped. From what I could tell, motor fired and then stopped then fired again. I think that’s what happened.”
Of course that's what happened. You don't think us dumb sheep believe anything else do you. Lodsdon told the Guardian that he thought the accident might “slow down the emergence of a private suborbital business,” and said that it “remains to be seen whether it will be so negative an impact that it will be impossible to revive the business.” Such an outcome would be “unfortunate, I would say sad,” he said.
Alert alert, fasten your wallets securely, the wolf of wall street has enetred the building and your shares are as worthwhile as scuba diving in a lead suit with concrete boots. Looks like some rich people are going to have to view their flight experience through a telescope. Enter expert Hadfield. We are all familair with him, right?
He said:
Chris Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut and former test pilot, who warned last year in that a crash by a Virgin Galactic craft was possible, said on Fridays said he hoped the cause of the accident would be determined swiftly.
You see, he knew and they didn't listen to this expert space station musician and hygiene teacher. This is the man that taught us all how to wipe up spills in zero gravity and eat peanut butter sandwiches and all the rest of the shite, apart from actually doing anything worthwhile.Hadfield again:
“Trying to do something complicated doesn’t happen easily, and it doesn’t happen without cost,” he told the Guardian by telephone from Toronto. “The resolve that the professionals in the business have is what makes it happen. This is the true nature of being a test pilot or an astronaut: to see both the cost and the benefit, and to recognise that if we want to explore - if we want to go faster or go higher - then that doesn’t come for free.”
That first line, hahaha. Basically reading between the lines he's saying. You've lost all your money and anyone stupid enough to believe they are safe going up high in the sky, needs their arses smacking. The accident is the second this week to hit a private US space company. On Tuesday, an Orbital Sciences Antares rocket exploded 15 seconds after liftoff from Wallops Island, Virginia, destroying a cargo ship bound for the International Space Station.
Wallops island? wallops frigging island?....crash bang wallop...what a picture....my god they dick slap it right into our faces and it's stinking to high heaven, yet people sniff it and love it. About 800 people, including Tom Hanks and Angelina Jolie, had paid to book a two-hour journey into space on SpaceShipTwo, which would include a planned five minutes of weightlessness.
It just fills you with confidence doesn't it? Last year Hadfield, whose tweeted photos, videos and rendition of David Bowie’s Space Oddity brought him global fame during a stint on the International Space Station, questioned what kind of experience future space tourists will have with Virgin Galactic, saying they are “just going to go up and fall back down again”.
Yeah, space oddity. What's odd about it is, no one's been there. And he's not wrong about falling back down again, only they never went up in teh first place. I think he means their bank balances have fallen down.He said: “They’ll get a few minutes of weightlessness, and they’ll see the black of the universe. And they’ll see the curve of the Earth and the horizon, because they’ll be above the air. But whether that’ll be enough for the quarter-million-dollar price tag, I don’t know.”
Course it'll be enough, Chris, apparently they've already paid to sit in a seat and look at blackness. I don't need to go any further to be honest. If people can't see this for what it is, then a cow may as well be a squirrel.