The guy drives a 13 year old Honda Fit. If that doesn’t explain his obsession with the practical, nothing else can.

Proud of the “questionable content,” whatever that is?!

Erik is the worst for these sorts of takes, sometimes its beyond snark, its just whiny. 

He is the new Adam Clark Estes who had takes like “Email is done” and “Microsoft Office is a relic that nobody uses”.

Just a straight fucking moron out for controversial clicks only.

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

For sure. More people have been to the moon than the bottom of the ocean. That is one hell of a brag for anyone.

I’m fed up with the drivel Eric barfs up that I am tempted to not read Jalopnik. His hateful sniveling speaks far more of his character than any of his topics do.

Man, astonished by the desire to lick boots in the comments of this blog!

That’s where I’m at.  I only click on his articles when I mistakenly forget to read who the author is ahead of time... like this article.

“The Wright Brothers didn’t fly.”

I’m not normally one to knock the writers of this site, I have stupid opinions too, but Eric consistently writes questionable content. It’s getting to the point where I’m going to stop clicking on his articles.

Sure.

Instead, I hereby propose a simple, achievable definition of “going to space,” which is that you must orbit the Earth at least once while you’re up there, something that Branson did not do.

How ever much shade Erik wants to throw on this accomplishment, Virgin Galactic’s ship performed exactly as they planned and expected. In no way did it not achieve what they set out to do yesterday.

The government isn’t forking out the big bucks for Space Tourism, they’re forking out the big bucks for satellite delivery and trips to the ISS. If anything moving the space transport business to the private sector has dramatically reduced cargo delivery costs for the government.

This is fine and all but I find myself more impressed with James Cameron’s rich-guy feat than Branson or Bezos going into brief orbit.

But come on, man, Branson’s stunt only barely cleared that.

Its both very cool that he did this, and also seems so pointless. Most experiments you’re doing in 2 minutes of weightlessness can be done on the vomit comet, the notion that this is for research is such a laughable concept.

Why the hate? Someone’s gotta fork over the big bucks if our governments won’t. Let the Bazillionare Space Race commence, and godspeed, I say. We’ll get some actual technological advancements that will further mankind’s journey into the cosmos, while also having a chance to witness some one-percenter explode on…

So, let’s say one person goes to the Sky Deck of the Willis Tower looks out then goes back down, is that person not allowed to say that they’ve been to the top of the Sears Tower?