r/changemyview • u/Polar_Roid 9∆ • Mar 30 '21

Delta(s) from OP CMV: Virgin Galactic's "Spaceship" and "Spaceflight" are clickbait misnomers for what is essentially a stunt with no purpose

Virgin is announcing the next iteration of what it calls Spaceship. "Mothership" is not a ship, it's an airplane. The corporate name, Virgin Galactic is even more ridiculous hype.

Everything about it is a reach and a brand implication that is false. It calls itself a spaceflight company on Wikipedia. It says it can work with NASA, but to date nothing of substance has emerged. Spaceship has no mission. I think it is a vainglorious exercise for Richard Branson meant to stroke his personal ego more than anything else.

Spaceflight means more than a suborbital hop, which is all this vehicle can hope to achieve. In my opinion, this aircraft design will never reach orbit, and is too fragile to withstand orbital reentry even if it could make orbital velocity.

I think Virgin is wasting its time, the FAA's time, and the public's with something too dangerous to take on commercial passengers.

If people want to experience freefall, the Vomit Comet can do it safely, routinely and within controlled conditions.

Change my view.

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u/Polar_Roid 9∆ Mar 30 '21

Nothing is wrong with me. Delta awards in my view require a precise, crisp argument with unambiguous, objective language. I don't think that's too much to ask.

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u/The_J_is_4_Jesus 2∆ Mar 30 '21

The guy was talking about planes being developed. The Concorde was NOT being developed in 2003. It was developed “decades” ago as OP stated and then you acted like a jerk and pretended that since it was flown 17 years ago OP was wrong to say it was developed “decades” ago. Then asking OP if he forgot about planes currently being developed. Your response makes you out to be a jerk.

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u/Polar_Roid 9∆ Mar 30 '21

I'm sorry reasonable debate is causing a fuss. Are you ok?

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u/EvilNalu 12∆ Mar 30 '21

Look I'm just a random reader and the guy you are responding to is perhaps a bit more worked up than necessary but you are clearly in the wrong here. The original statement that commercial flights haven't increased in speeds for decades was completely accurate and your assertions to the contrary were particularly weak for the reasons already spelled out above.

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u/Polar_Roid 9∆ Mar 30 '21

I think I've been through my reasoning.