If you mean 'space flight' front page right stuff, it's not the same goal...that's why.

• We know that VG's SS2 didn't 'crash'...it came apart at altitude for some reason and then the pieces fell to the ground. Just like an apple from a tree.

She also said she was shocked, but not surprised about the explosion, and said Virgin should get away from commercial space travel, and stick to something they might be good at, like selling mobile phones.

Clearly you've been given the gifts of logic and intelligence - please let us know whey you unwrap them.

It's all a setup w/nascar paying jeff a bonus to cause a ruckus on TV - it's the only way they can get attention in the media, after all.

My heroes wear firesuits...and fight like girls.

Fine? More like a promised bounty for getting people to talk...witness this thread. Without this fake controversy, the chase would be christmas cake already.

I'm sure it makes for a more interesting story (?), but I suspect they were fooling with you much more than you knew.

Update: Spacecraft's Rocket Motor Landed Intact, NTSB Chief Says "The information suggests that the breakup of SpaceShipTwo was due to something other than an engine explosion."

I was referring to the media/rhetorical 'we', not you directly :)

Can we stop calling it a crash already? It exploded in mid-air.

Can one of Lewis's handlers remind him to take his sunglasses off during interviews....

Enzo started the practice. Everyone else simply followed...

She wants that big truck baaaaaddd :)

Worst case of prius-buyer remorse I've ever witnessed.

And being a BMW, we can be assured that driver had it coming...if not for this time, certainly all those times he/she got away with being the jerk we know they are. Best served cold and all that...

That's a slippery slope of what diameter to make the indentation. Small coffee cup? Starbucks insulated sippy travel mug? 7-11 Mid-Ocean Super Tanker? Draft beer mug? Multiples sizes? They drew a line in the sand, did the best with the least and deserve credit for not over thinking the result. That's what experienced…

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