Railbird in Lexington, KY announced the same policy last week, presumably because Jason Isbell is one of the headliners and he has announced that he won’t play a venue that doesn’t follow this policy.

I can sort of see what you are getting at there. Let’s push the hypothetical a bit though — Say Musk decides to join the fun next year and grabs one of the spots on a Crew Dragon up to the ISS for ultimate bragging rights among the Space Barons. He does all the SpaceX required training prior to going - similar to what…

Your definition raises an interesting dilemma, though. Nearly all spacecraft are entirely computer controlled at launch and do not rely on humans flying them to get into space. Not even the Apollo and shuttle astronauts flew manually to orbit. Basically, if you are using “manually flying the spacecraft to space”, its…

I just watched it at your insistence and you are missing a couple key differences:

You can’t have the inside line, when your aren’t ahead or at least even. When trailing, the line belongs to the car ahead and the car behind must yield. The lead car’s only obligation is to leave enough space on the track not to pinch the other car off the track. Max did that here, but Lewis ran wide of the apex and…

Yep. Hamilton was taking that corner the way I take corners in Forza Horizon. 

$20 bucks says the other two swapped out one that looks close but doesn’t actually fit when he wasn’t looking.

Hammond’s schtick is that he secretly wants to be an American and thus prone to good ole boy antics like big obnoxious superchargers and crazy wings even if they don’t really belong there. 

I’m aware. I’m mostly just commenting to point out how shockingly short those first few flights were.

Whatever Branson did or did not do, you can rest assured that if I were ever awarded astronaut wings, you’d never see me without them pinned to my chest.

“The Wright Brothers didn’t fly.”

If that’s the definition we are using, then very few people have ever left the Earth’s atmosphere. Even the ISS requires periodic boosts due to atmospheric drag and it orbits at around 250 miles. The exosphere of Earth’s atmosphere extends all the way up to 6,200 miles.

Why does our Loki know how to take on an Alioth after being in this world for three minutes, and why haven’t the other Lokis ever thought of doing that?

Agreed. I found this video showing what the view is like. You are high enough to see the curvature of the Earth, but it doesn’t look anything like “space.”

It’s the greatest bit ever. You know it’s coming EVERY time, but you still laugh, EVERY time.

It could be Musk making a point.

But have you seen the new badge it comes with?! Your arguments are invalid.

Sure, at face value, this seems like the sort of question only a drooling simpleton would ask

I am attending one of these cornfield shows tomorrow night. I can’t wait.

It’s almost like farming out space exploration to private companies isn’t a great idea!