[extropy-chat] Paul Allen to be fourth Space Power

[Harvey Newstrom]

Mike Lorrey wrote,
> This release from Scaled Composites confirms rumors that 
> Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is the financial backer of 
> the SpaceShipOne project. If Scaled succeeds in winning the 
> x-prize, this will make Paul Allen the fourth economic power 
> in the world to gain independent manned space launch 
> capability. IMHO this absolves Microsoft of all, or maybe 
> just most, of all the evil things it has done...

I hope it crashes less than Windows....  :-)

But seriously, I told my partner about the SpaceShipOne project.  He thought
it sounded exciting.  He said he regretted not being younger and having a
healthy ticker so he could actually become involved with something like
this.  This was the first interest he has shown in anything extropian I have
been interested in.  This is real pioneering in his mind.  He has little
interest in cryonics, immortality, uploading, AIs, etc.  But getting into
space by private citizens (non-government) sounded interesting and plausible
to him.

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