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The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak Is Asked Some Random Questions
"Let me ask you some random questions just to get your response. Hunter Biden documents can somebody explain to me my theory kind of for a while is that the powers that be never intended for Joe Biden to finish out four years of his think stolen term and that they are finally now allowing this stuff to come out so that he will have to say, well, for health reasons or something else, I'm going to resign. But here's the good news. We're going to first female president in the United States cackling laughing stock who and I say that in a good way. And I kind of feel like the fact that The New York Times and others are reporting on these documents, they don't report on anything they don't want to anymore because they're no longer journalists. And if that sounds cynical folks, I apologize, but I'm just telling you what it looks like to me. And so what do you think? Absolutely. Absolutely. I think they have realized that Joe Biden is like that package of deal with the manager special sticker on it that you pick up because it's like 90% off, but it's kind of green and you can smell it through the plastic. At this point, that Branson deal, the white rancid deal is going to get dropped in the trash can and I do think that's going to happen. He's just, he was so compromised and always such a mediocre opportunistic hack, I mean, and that was at his best. I know you mean that as a compliment. Yeah. He doesn't know you. Saying Apollo opportunistic hack. I love you, man. Well, it's like saying that a circus acrobat is flexible. He's suited to a station in life. Someone who wants to be in politics right there, you should be suspicious. Someone who wants power, one out of a hundred of those people deserves it. The other 99 watch out for them.
AP News Radio
Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit suffers launch failure
"A problem developed during virgin orbitz attempt to launch the first satellites into orbit from Western Europe. Sir Richard Branson's virgin orbit company is calling it an anomaly that prevented it from reaching orbit and says it's evaluating the problem. The U.S. based company was using a modified jumbo jet named cosmic girl, which took off from Cornwall in England to release a rocket at 35,000 feet over the Atlantic to the south of Ireland, but about two hours after take off the company reported a problem. The rocket was supposed to take 9 small satellites into orbit, some for civil use and some for defense. UK officials had high hopes for the mission, virgin orbits previously completed for similar launches from California.
AP News Radio
No. 17 Oregon State dominates Florida to win Las Vegas Bowl
"Oregon state routed Florida 30 to three to win the Vegas bulb. Beaver starting quarterback Bengal Branson completed 12 of 19 passes for 165 yards and a touchdown. He also ran for a TD. Called Branson was named the game MVP. Felt like we put together a great game plan, watch a lot of tape. It was all the looks that we were seeing on tape and I felt like we could just go out there and let it rip and play ball and that's the most fun that you can ask for. Florida scored his three points and a field goal in the final minute, thus extending its NCAA record scoring streak to 436 games, 57 games longer than any other team. I'm Tom mariam.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Bringing the Bible to Life with Katie Miller of 'Sight and Sound'
"You are the what, you're the head of Sight & Sound theaters. What is your official title? I'm the director of marketing communications. You're the head of marketing and communications close enough. You're the grandchild of the folks who founded site in sand. Now, people who are just tuning in who don't know what this is. Give us the synopsis of what is Sight & Sound. Sure. So Sight & Sound is based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and we are coming up on celebrating in just a couple of years, 50 years of what we call bringing the Bible to life on stage. So we have two theaters, one in Lancaster, when in Branson, Missouri, they are large theaters, and we are known for bringing Bible stories to life. And when you say they're large theaters, that's the classic Christian understatement like the humble Christian. They're large theaters. They're huge. They're gigantic. They are really huge. They are. And let's be honest. Yeah, they're 2000s. Gigantic. 2000 seats, we have a 300 foot wraparound stage so these stories, you know, we want to do these stories justice. So they come to life. The audience is really in the middle of the story that's happening. Okay, so the big news is for the first time ever, you guys are coming out with a movie. Yes. Okay. And that's a Christmas movie called I heard the bells. It is. And we are so beyond excited about it, and we can't believe it's finally here. Now, before we talk about that, which is the big news, the headline, I heard the bells, the film. You are also airing on TBN Joseph. We are. Now, and when is that airing? The 25th of November. Coming up here. It's coming up every day. November 25th on TBN at 8 and 10 p.m. Eastern Time, TBN is airing Joseph. So before we get into, I heard the bells this big Christmas movie. Tell us a little bit about Joseph because obviously this is in a few days. Yeah. So Joseph hasn't been live on one of our stages for quite some time, but it is one of my favorite shows that we produce. And one of my favorite stories. If you're familiar with the story, you know what happens. But watching Joseph B kind of torn apart from his family, the life that he leads and then the power of forgiveness and reuniting with his family for giving his brothers seeing his father again. It is just an incredibly moving story and one of my most favorites. So we're super excited to be partnering with TBN again.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Sight & Sound Theater's Katie Miller on New Film 'I Heard the Bells'
"It that you all decided to make a film a Christmas film? This one is called, I heard the bells. Yeah, so we, you know, from the very beginning, film has been a part of our story. My grandparents founded Sight & Sound. In many ways, by accident, but through using multimedia. It was a multimedia slideshow back in the 60s. They kind of helped us get our find our footing, if you will. And ever since then, media has been a part of what we do. So whether we are filming stage shows for things like broadcasting on TBN, or media in the actual shows themselves projection, giant LED screens, all these different elements that help to bring these stories to life. Media has been a part of what we've done. And as we felt the lord several years ago calling us to expand, we weren't sure at first truthfully, was it like, is it another location? What does this mean? What does this look like? And we really started to feel this call towards telling stories beyond the stage and beyond the Bible. There are so many historical true stories that are powerful. That are waiting to be told. And so this launch into Sight & Sound films, this new branch that we have launched this past year and our debut film I heard the bells is our first step towards that, what we feel like the lord is calling us towards in the future. Not that theaters is going anywhere. That will remain exactly what it has been. So the theaters are in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Branson, Missouri. Yeah. Okay. But if people want to find you all online, where do they go? You're a site dash sound dot com.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Katie Miller Tells Us About Sight & Sound Theater
"Back, Katie Miller. Hello. It's good to see you. People, some people will remember you. You are the what, you're the head of Sight & Sound theaters. What is your official title? I'm the director of marketing communications. You're the head of marketing and communications, close enough. You're the grandchild of the folks who founded site in sand. Now, people who are just tuning in who don't know what this is. Give us the synopsis of what is site and sound. Sure. So Sight & Sound is based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and we are coming up on celebrating in just a couple of years, 50 years of what we call bringing the Bible to life on stage. So we have two theaters, one in Lancaster, when in Branson, Missouri, they are large theaters, and we are known for bringing Bible stories to life. And when you say they're large theaters, that's the classic Christian understatement like the humble Christian, they're large theaters. They're huge. They're gigantic. They are really huge. They are. Let's be honest. Yeah, they're 2000s are gigantic. 2000 seats, we have a 300 foot wraparound stage so these stories, we want to do these stories justice. So they come through life. Hundred foot wrap around. And the answer is really in the middle of the story that's happening.
AP News Radio
Northwest heat wave: Portland mayor warns of risky weekend
"The Pacific Northwest sees record highs tumble amid another summer heat wave The high in Seattle hasn't been below 90°F since last Monday The city is never had 6 straight days of 90° heat forecasters say that record could fall since they don't see any likely highs below 90 at least through Sunday Chris Branson and others with Seattle reach have been getting water and other hot weather supplies to the homeless There's no escape from the heat right Even in the shade when it's 90° it's still sweltering Orson Lee and his dog live in his camper truck I try and stay in shape but it doesn't really help a whole lot As I move around like it or not It's even hotter in Portland where the thermometer is topped 100 every day since Tuesday and is expected to do it again on Saturday as a national weather service extends the excessive heat warning for the two cities until Sunday Night I'm Tim McGuire
The Old Man's Podcast
A highlight from Is happiness and contentment "The Secret to Life"?
"That's what you get in here. Entertainment and information for everyone of every age on this particular episode. What's coming up. We're going to talk about unlimited potential. Gonna rant actually about unlimited textual. We'll talk about memories and how to be happy. I'll la john linnet interesting. Twist to happiness worse. We're gonna play trivia in we recently went to branson bring you back. Observations from branson missouri. You've never been there or if you have been there either way. I think my observations will get your attention. That's what's coming up. This episode man's podcast.
AP News Radio
Prince William wants saving Earth to come before "space tourism"
"Britain's prince William has criticized some of the world's richest man for using their wealth to fund a new space race and space tourism rather than trying to fix the problems on planet earth in that stat in comments to the BBC William voiced his disapproval a day off to the former Star Trek actor William Shatner became the oldest man to fly to space in a rocket built by Amazon founder Jeff vessels we need some of the world's greatest brains and minds fixed on trying to repair this planet not just trying to find the next place to go and live said William who is second in line to the British throne billionaires Elon musk and Richard Branson also
AP News Radio
COVID-related attacks prompt hospital to issue panic buttons
"Health care workers across the country are facing an increase in assaults and verbal altercations into Missouri hospital systems taking steps to protect them hundreds of hospital workers in Branson Missouri will be equipped with panic buttons on their ID badges to quickly summoned security when the worker feels in danger since the start of the coded pandemic assaults at **** health triple to one hundred twenty three workers injuries increased four fold health experts are blaming it on the stress of the corona virus and that most patients can't have family members there to help calm them down a similar situations been reported in Texas world wide a report finds more than four hundred acts of violence or threats against health care workers were related to the fear and frustration over Kobe nineteen I'm Jackie Quinn
Marketplace Minute
FAA Says Virgin Galactic Can't Fly Spaceship During Investigation
"Grounded by the federal aviation administration. The faa is looking into a flight in july virgin spaceship to apparently veered out of its approved airspace as it descended toward new mexico virgin founder. Richard branson was on board and later today.
AP News Radio
FAA Bans Virgin Galactic Launches While Probing Branson Trip
"The Federal Aviation Administration says virgin galactic cannot launch anyone into space again until completion of an investigation it involves the virgin galactic flight in July with founder Richard Branson on board nothing could prepare you for the view of a from space the FAA says the rocket ship veered off course during its descent back to New Mexico putting it outside the air traffic control clearance area virgin galactic admits the space plane dropped below the protected airspace for one minute forty one seconds because of a change in wind the flight itself lasted about fifteen minutes the company said the flight was safe and successful virgin galactic says it plans to launch three Italian researchers to the edge of space in a few weeks and wants to start selling tickets to space next year I'm a Donahue
Daily Tech Headlines
Virgin Orbit Will Go Public Through a $3.2 Billion SPAC Deal
"Branson's beer denard is going to a special purpose. Acquisition company merger with nexgen acquisition corp. The company was a off from branson's virgin galactic and launch. Its fears rocket last january. Carrington is satellites for nasa. The combined company is expected to in up to four hundred and eighty three million in cash and these values a combined enterprises in three point. Two
John Williams
Boeing Plans Investment in Virgin Orbit SPAC
"Boeing is the leading gainer on the Dow Up about 3%. Following news that it plans to invest a pile of money in a SPAC merger planned later this year. By Richard Branson's satellite launch company, Virgin orbit Boeing is not investing in The Virgin orbit. It's investing in a speck that virgin orbit is
Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
"branson" Discussed on Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman
"Catalog of the entire sixty to ninety minute interviews with read their available only two masters of scale members. So here's day one of the mindset of scale. The theme of the day is asked what. Why not with. Sir richard branson. Let's listen welcomed the day one for the of scale our first course in the masters of scale app. I know how each minute matters for an entrepreneur and you probably have a tendency to multitask but take a moment right now to turn off slack closure email and arrive for these ten minutes. It will be worth your time whether you entrepreneur starting something from scratch on your own an entrepreneur who built something daring inside established organization or an executive leading at scale. Your single greatest. Success factor isn't knowledge expertise or network. It your mindset so you have to think in ways that are often the exact opposite of what you learn in school. No one is born with all of the entrepreneurial mindsets you may be comfortable in chaos but less confident and making quick decisions. You may have a natural instinct for escaping competition but less certainty about building company culture. The good news is that all of these mindsets can be cultivated. And that's what this course is about each day will tackle a different essential mindset and the most fundamental mindset. You need is a bias for action. It's not enough to have good ideas. You have to be ready to act on them to show you what i mean. I wanna share a story from sir. Richard branson richard is known for his death defying launch monroe leaps in the new markets and industries. Virgin records for genera lines and virgin galactic are just a few he embodies the entrepreneurial biased action will start the story in the mid nineteen sixties. Richard was in high school and about to act on his very first venture. The vietnamese war was going on like a lot of young people thought. It was a travesty of justice Horrendous horrendous horrendous mistake and so i decided actually.
AP News Radio
Ravages of COVID Surge Evident Inside Missouri Hospital
"I'm Missouri hospital that had no copay patients just two months ago is now dealing with the July surge the ravages of the fast spreading delta variant or becoming a parent in a state with one of the nation's lowest vaccination rates lake regional hospital in the heart of Missouri's lake of the Ozarks region has seen twenty two people die from the virus in the first twenty three days of July the lake of the Ozarks region averages five and a half million visitors annually local counties vaccination rates are less than forty percent doctor how much Sanga is lake regional's chief medical officer big time though the virus orange here lot of admissions lots of people who are very sick and I'm dying thirty one year old Darryl Barker was against the co the backseat and so were his relatives now he's in the ICU at lake regional transfer from Branson where the hospitals are maxing out six year old son and wife Billy Barker said outside his ICU room in lawn chairs looking in through the glass any side effects that you're going to have from the being vaccinated are are way better than having to do this I'm Jennifer king
The Ten News
Space Tourism Blasts Off
"The world has been buzzing about space lately as more and more rockets take off from our planet but the latest launches aren't from governments or organizations that you used to like nasa instead. Several billionaires and their companies have gotten into a bit of a space race on july first richard branson who owns space company. Virgin galactic became the first person to get to space in a rocket that he funded cool ends on july twenty first amazon founder. Jeff bezos flew a few miles higher than branson and a rocket called new shepherd nice. Each flight was about ten minutes long. Both virgin galactic and bezos company. Blue origin have stated that. They're looking to popularize space tourism. But right now they're charging big bucks for the privilege. Virgin is currently charging two hundred fifty thousand dollars a seat and while blue origin. Tickets aren't opened for the public to buy yet. One of bazo seat meets ponied up. Twenty eight million dollars for the first ride. These flights represents a new era for space travel. But they've also been controversial. Critics have questioned the amount of money being spent on this endeavor instead of donating to causes and solving problems here on earth especially in the midst of a pandemic but besides being joyrides for the rich and famous experts. Say that these space vehicles could one day have something to offer the science world. Scientists who want to conduct experiments in low. Gravity haven't been able to go aboard flights at all. The ships are unmanned bummer. That could change in the future scientists. Hope that they could study questions. Like how living things respond to the move from. Gravity to
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"branson" Discussed on Main Engine Cut Off
"And i guarantee you. That's the case today that there's a college intern. There's a twenty something working at virgin galactic or blue origin. And they're gonna go on and they're going to run a company that i'm talking about in thirty years on this podcast. And i'm a big proponent of the fact that companies don't have experience or expertise people do the people working there have the experience and expertise and they will go somewhere else and they will spread that so whatever they're working today is feeding into what they're working on tomorrow and that's the stuff that really matters so looking forward. I'm gonna be a lot less concerned about how much money someone paid to do a flight and more about. How frequently can these companies fly. How regular can they make. It seem what can they cut out of the training to get down to a quicker less resource-intensive process between signing up and flying. What can they do to make progress in that way and to make everyone else in the world. Find it a little less weird. You're flying into space today now. The last thing. I'm curious about is to compare this past week or two that we've experienced and look towards the end of the year the beginning next year when we see flights like inspiration for axiom one the first couple of orbital missions in this era that are tourist focused s- I want to see what the coverage is like around them. We won't have the the culture war flashpoint of branson bezos. We will have a billionaire too involved. But they're not the kinds that you know spark a lot of the culture war stuff. Is these do so. Will the messaging change at all. There will the reactions change. Will less people care. Because nobody's heard of jared isaac until this point and you and i have but has you know my friend that was talking to me about this space flight last tuesday probably not so. I'm curious to compare the reactions. And the relative way that it's accepted amongst mass media compared to these ones that's a topic for another show so we will get back to that. But for now that i've got for you. Thank you so much for listening. Thanks to all your support as always over at managing cut dot com slash sport. If you want to send me a question or comment hit me up on email. Anthony at managing cutoff dot com or on twitter at. We have meco until next time thanks skin..
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"branson" Discussed on Main Engine Cut Off
"An incredible app on the app store but we were working the other day together Between the brand flight. And the bezos flight and i was just talking with him about the reaction to these flights and about why these flights set off the culture war and bad comedy and all of the kind of internet drama that we watched play out for ten or twelve days there. I'm just trying to make sense of it to understand where that specifically is coming from. And he used comment to me that he was like well. That's because this is weird. This is new and weird and not normalized. We've all accepted super yachts or cruise ships or hotel chains or whatever the things are that million and billionaires spend their money on and nobody really fights about super yachts anymore. There's obviously people that get fired up about that. But it's not something like that lights off the internet and the way that did and it's just because we've accepted that those are the way that things are so this is new and it's interesting and it's weird and it's an easy target and that's why it sets off everything like this and talk with him about that. Made me realize that that is the thing that is important at this. Point is to make this less weird and less new And that solidified some of my thinking on on the way that i'm looking at suborbital tourism right now in years past. I'd wanna get so fixated on the market size. The current and future pricing the projections. I'd get so fixated on the specifics of virgin galactic or blue origin and what their business model is and i think that was sourced from a place of like boy. I hope these companies can make it. I hope they don't fizzle out but the closer that we got to these moments this is probably the last year that i started thinking about this more. That stuff isn't important to louis. Or the things i care about which the development of space in general. It's important to talk about those things if you work at these companies and if you're worried about you know what the income is tomorrow but it. If for all of us out here you know not the people listening that work these companies but all of us out here looking in and not necessarily buying tickets for these. The important thing is about how this pushing everything forward and not necessarily about the ticket tax specifics of the companies. And how they're managing things. Because quite honestly. I don't care if virgin galactic or blue origin turn out to be one hundred year company. Maybe the companies will turn out to be a hundred companies. But do i care about a specific business line being as long lasting as it would as those other things would require market and pricing. Right you can last for a long time. Do i really care about that. Especially when we're out of time when it seems likely that there's some things around the corner that could make orbital tourism significantly less expensive than it is currently because it's a pretty big price gap right now between the two. It's a couple of zeros..
Latino Rebels Radio
The End of DACA?
"So if you're someone who is a dreamer right now who does not have daca. You can have daca right. Is that correct. Yeah i think like in the most basic of census right like that is probably the interpretation that most folks are walking away. And if you know you're an outsider. Meaning that you don't have or you're trying to essentially figure something out that might just be the simplest way to look at it but for the people who are in the process of applying for dhaka for the first time right they are seeing a lot of very specific questions that have quite just been answered right. Judge heynen though federal judge in the southern district of texas who has been essentially overseeing a variety of different cases on this subject as made no secret that he's not a fan of the daca program so people need to understand that first and foremost number two his ruling basically states that new applicants as you mentioned julio people who are in the process of applying for dhaka for the first time short of them being fully approved into the program will no longer be eligible for the program. What exactly does that mean. May the young daca applicant. Who says well. I sent in my application. It was received. I gotta biometrics appointment. This is where they go and take your finger branson that take a photo and all this jazz. You know i did dad. I haven't heard back from you. If my application going to be considered is gonna be frozen. It's going to be thrown away and that's kind of where we are at earlier this week. We saw that. Uscis basically said in a statement. You know we acknowledge that this is happening. Where abiding by the court order. There will be more guidelines following up. So i i actually have it up on my phone because i tweeted out and it's interesting because let me just break this down because it says i'm rita and this came out on july nineteenth and i'm glad you brought it up because i was kind of like my next question but let's let's give the people some context. This is the giving people some context portion of the show so basically they say you know based on the order issued by the us district court for the southern district of texas and texas. The united states department of homeland security is enjoined from granting initial daca requests. Basically saying you haven't even started like don't even try
WSJ Tech News Briefing
Where Space Begins: Bezos' Blue Origin vs. Branson's Virgin Galactic
"This morning in a remote part of the west texas desert the world richest man amazon founder. Jeff bezos plans to take off for a trip to space. It's the first space flight with passengers on board for his company. blue origin. Now if you were paying attention nine days ago another billionaire. Richard branson took a flight to space with his company virgin. Galactic bezos is flight will be a little different in how it launches and where the passengers will go. But the difference is don't stop there. They extend to the goals and ambitions of both companies and to discuss that. We have a reporter mike. Berg who covers the business of space for the wall street journal back on the show. I'm mike thanks for joining us again so nine days ago you were in new mexico watching the virgin galactic flight with richard branson launch. Now you're in texas for the blue origin launch. What are some of the differences you expect to see when this flight takes off. Yeah i mean the biggest difference just sort of visually blue origin uses a rocket to get the space. We're going to see literally the new scheffer rocket flare up into at very high speeds into space. And then you know we won't see this but a capsule detach and float into space and then the rocket will return to the launch pad. Virgin galactic of course uses a different method. They've got a kind high-flying airplane that flies up. You know the way you would see at an airport and the space craft the virgin galactic spacecraft attached to the rocket detaches at about forty five thousand feet and then it sort of rockets up into space from there. So you'll literally see the
Sky News Daily
"branson" Discussed on Sky News Daily
"Of different things to do. You're always trading though. Let's get right up to date prospect now of dozens more amateurs so to speak going into space with Got you've worked with of course With jeff bezos is program. Because some richard branson elon. Musk as well all planning to take people into space. It's going to cost a lot of money. Let's leave that aside. But he's that an age cutoff for certainly physical cutoff. That would not allow people to do that. You have to be in in certain medical condition to be able to go through an experience like that. For example you know you don't want to have a significant heart problem or something like bats. But you know medically a lot of people who've qualified to go as what we call spaceflight participants that is astronauts. It's number of people have signed up and flown with the russians for a week or so on the international space station at great expense but You know they have to go through several months of training. They have to spend a lot of time in russia learning a few words of russian and then learning their systems and basically how to take care of themselves. You know how to put your pressure suit on how to take it off. You know what to do in an emergency situation which is mostly you know. Don't touch anything and listen to the commander right. So it's it's not the same as getting on a commercial airliner for example but at the same time you're not trained to a professional level. You're not expected to be what we call required crew member for flight operations. So you're more or less a little more than just a passenger but certainly not a fully trained professional three to one release release release clean release ignition. Good rocket motor burn. Let's talk about it but asked space and sky high dreams space is now moving away from space exploration going into space leaving slightly away from from being at the state level now to being very rich man. Yeah i think in most of our lifetimes it's been about scientists and nasa and those very exciting very remote worlds of space exploration and bits of kit that we can't even imagine how they working and now it feels that it is very different. It's a very different crowd of people running. It certainly does billionaires you. Mentioned are the ones with their hands. All over this fifty seconds approaching mach three. I'm greg milem. I'm a. Us correspondent for sky news and sixty seconds and that is full. Duration burn folks. We are headed to space and the passengers in the back watching the virgin galactic launch. I think it was a very significant moment. That this stuff is actually real. It's actually happening is actually going to be in our lifetimes whether any of us can afford to do it of course is a different matter. Richard branson's being outed longer than the others. Seventeen years or so since richard branson. I announced his ambitions. Two thousand four. When virgin galactic was started. I think back then the intention walls within three or four years. They be doing what they've only just done now of of taking passengers into space but for him dates back and he. He talks about this a lot. Doesn't it back to nineteen sixty nine and watching the moon landing a teenager. We choose to go to the moon and and do the other thing not because they are easy being taken outside by his dad and the pointing up at the moon and realizing there were two men up there east folks at one of those men buzz aldrin in the nineties and and talked about the idea of using plane rather than a traditional rocket as so. The idea is been fermenting for a long time lot of setbacks on the way of course. I think a lot of us wonder whether this would ever happen. He's proved he can do it. And i think that for him is why this is so emotionally significant but also practically significant in a business sense as well. Let's go through the others then we go elon. Musk of tesla. Fame with space. X.'s dragon capsule and he's the best known for his space ambitions around the world. Think just because of his global profile that he has and has had a lot of success with the commercial side of this deals with nasa of taking things up into orbital space which of course is much further than branson or some of the tourism operations are going and has talked in perhaps much greater ambition. About what could be done. He's talked about colonizing mars. Easy said he wants to go to mars. he's also said people might die. Going to mars but ambitions seemed to be much bigger and grander than just space tourism. And someone who through his life has solve the big problems as he's seen them around the world and this is one he sees that needs to be solved by the private sector. Then making up the triumvirate. Jeff bezos of amazon fame. What of his ambitions. what's his rocket. Program is interesting isn't because he there's far less publicity with with. Jeff bezos a blue origin. The company that will take him into space has been around for twenty years so longer than branson's virgin galactic but his plans all rooted much further back than that he he talks of colonizing space of building these holds where trillions of people can live something. It's thought he took from a professor. He had at princeton physicist. Who came up with his idea in the seventies so he has these grand ambitions that pass. He doesn't talk about as much as richard branson alone. Musk but which are very rooted in in history and clearly having left amazon this is now his focus on taking humans where they where they've not come before okay where we've got the ambitions and of course they've got the resources to do it. Why are they doing it. I think a bit a lot of it is about ego or they genuinely investing in. Humanity's future i guess only they could say if this is purely ego and when you look at some of the the machinery involved some people will think that this is about this race between billionaires. They talk about it in in a way. There's much more about it. Being much more honorable they talk about the fun and the experience of doing this of of looking back and seeing the earth but on the honorable bit. They think they're saving the planet. Richard branson talks about looking back at the earth realizing what it is we need to cherish and preserve and encouraging people therefore to take more care of the planet belong. Musk talks about malls being plan. B for humanity which is a pretty depressing outlook. I guess that we may need to go somewhere. If we ruin what we've got down here and as also talked about looking for resources and energy with these colonies out in space so those are the big picture things i think. Sunday richard branson. There's money to be made out of this. It's a business. they believe. There's a demand there's a focus on hypersonic travel point to point. Travel that if if this all works out with virgin galactic and as a business that does well. that's the next stage so. I think that there's a lot going on in in why they're doing this and and very different reasons amongst all three of them greg's tricky question this one but what actually is paste. Sounds very nice. Well you know. I'm asking you philosophical question here. But what on earth cancer's going into space. Because you know. Richard branson was in commas flying on the edge of space. now clearly. Mars is in space. The moon is in Satellites in space was richard branson actually in space. I'm glad you're not asking the philosophical question. It's a question. I didn't know existed. Really i think until covering the virgin galactic launch Richard branson went up fifty three miles from the surface of the earth that by the definition of nassar and parts of the. Us government is in space. When he came back he was given the sycamore wings that denote him and the rest of the crew was being astronauts over him. That's good enough. It's looked like space from where i was Viewing those pictures. But there's a thing called the common line which internationally is regarded as being the edge of space sixty two miles up. I think the most people's minds and various international organizations. They're both space the experts say. There's very little practical difference. Bunch up there. You're weightless you look back at the earth but it certainly played a part in some of the banter between the blue origin team and the virgin galactic team as to whether branson really was going.
Sky News Daily
"branson" Discussed on Sky News Daily
"Richard branson's being outed longer than the others. Seventeen years or so since richard branson. I announced his ambitions. Two thousand four. When virgin galactic was started. I think back then the intention walls within three or four years. They be doing what they've only just done now of of taking passengers into space but for him dates back and he. He talks about this a lot. Doesn't it back to nineteen sixty nine and watching the moon landing a teenager. We choose to go to the moon and and do the other thing not because they are easy being taken outside by his dad and the pointing up at the moon and realizing there were two men up there east folks at one of those men buzz aldrin in the nineties and and talked about the idea of using plane rather than a traditional rocket as so. The idea is been fermenting for a long time lot of setbacks on the way of course. I think a lot of us wonder whether this would ever happen. He's proved he can do it. And i think that for him is why this is so emotionally significant but also practically significant in a business sense as well. Let's go through the others then we go elon. Musk of tesla. Fame with space. X.'s dragon capsule and he's the best known for his space ambitions around the world. Think just because of his global profile that he has and has had a lot of success with the commercial side of this deals with nasa of taking things up into orbital space which of course is much further than branson or some of the tourism operations are going and has talked in perhaps much greater ambition. About what could be done. He's talked about colonizing mars. Easy said he wants to go to mars. he's also said people might die. Going to mars but ambitions seemed to be much bigger and grander than just space tourism. And someone who through his life has solve the big problems as he's seen them around the world and this is one he sees that needs to be solved by the private sector. Then making up the triumvirate. Jeff bezos of amazon fame. What of his ambitions. what's his rocket. Program is interesting isn't because he there's far less publicity with with. Jeff bezos a blue origin. The company that will take him into space has been around for twenty years so longer than branson's virgin galactic but his plans all rooted much further back than that he he talks of colonizing space of building these holds where trillions of people can live something. It's thought he took from a professor. He had at princeton physicist. Who came up with his idea in the seventies so he has these grand ambitions that pass. He doesn't talk about as much as richard branson alone. Musk but which are very rooted in in history and clearly having left amazon this is now his focus on taking humans where they where they've not come
The Vergecast
"branson" Discussed on The Vergecast
"Network to compete with team always into verizon any like. Can you just goose that along a little bit. Nothing's happening here. Somebody help charlie that. It's this is like this underlying we don't think about five g. Networks as having suppliers and vendors usually live at this high consumer level like we think about eighteen. Thousand verizon is providers of five g. to us the consumer they've gotta go out and get nokia and siemens and whoever else like put stuff on their towers right in right now. All that stuff is effectively proprietary. Like you buy into one system ran is the open. Anybo- any supplier commute under a lot of this is aimed at increasing competition. So we're not relying on chinese companies like wal way so even in here all the way down to the earliest thing. I can think of on the verge cast jones like i got an idea about iran. Put that in there just zubaydah have. That idea is taboo. have that idea. That's definitely absolutely here. This entire section by the way is under a previous section that instructs to protect vibrancy of american markets were wine and spirits. The secretary of treasury shall not after one hundred twenty days and submitted a report to the chair of the white house assessing the current market structure and conditions of competition under wine and spirits. Well he's all over the place. Yeah he's like too many too much consolidation in the spirits market. Diario get in here. I like the idea that there's a there's an alliance between like diaz geo at version meat packers the point we killing us. Joe give me call if you ever want to do it. Vodka brand of ideas for it. So i feel like we has talk about branson version galactic. First flight he was on. It made a big deal. It was really weird. Yeah it was weird they. They made a fake video of him riding his bike to the spaceport which turned out he just. He had written his bike the day before they faked it. I'm all for bike riding. But i mean i don't know how i don't know how that connects to anything. The thing that's interesting to me is like amazon and like blue origin they had to like be snippy about this too technically space. You know great really interesting to me about this like the bicycle video. We're very used to spacex right. Probably everybody listening to show is watched. Uh spacex livestream spacex basically apes nasa right and assez national. Tv is not like action packed. Right right nasa. Like their streams. Are you know their government agency trying to educate the public and inspire the youth to do math. Or whatever and they're very dry. Direct spacex alonzo engineer. That's an engineering company famously. Tesla doesn't do any marketing. Like say sex. Looks a lot like i said. I think as a company. Their engineering focused. Most spacex launches are like after the launch. There's a long period of just like watching a rocket float into the sky while dot bar graph at the bottom moves along and then like excited people. Tell you about space. Engineering and people are captivated minutes. I'll make sense. Our science team has very conflicted feelings about the space. X livestream is right. Because they're not real like they april thing that looks official the a the government regulated thing. But they're a private company. That looks like it. But they're still pretty good and people washington who like them branson is literally like a music video executive that's who he is. He's an entertainment executive. The virgin galactic stream was like an infomercial like no aping nasa whatsoever. There was another stream. That was up from just like a youtube channel and they were just like yeah. Watch us if you don't want the fluff because interspersed with the regular virgin. Galactic stuff was like you know like at the olympics that you like human interest pieces on like athletes. Yeah it was that but for branson and then like what about one about his mom like just all this stuff. Hyping it up and i was like watching. This is like sci fi movie where the rocket explodes me. Made me anxious. As i was watching. If you say something is great this much like something movies man. It all went off. It was fine as space gets more privatized in commercial and then we've all kind of lulled into complacency by spacex being this engineering company. That kind of looks like nasa their commercial. That plane landed in. They're like here's a song. Richard branson commission from college and then we just like listen to a song. For what like. Why is this happening. And i i think we were. We should all get ready like blue origin. Does it and virginia lactic. Does it other companies start to do commercial space. They're going to do commercial space. And it's gonna look like branded content. Not like something went wrong in that flight will you. I would not have trusted that video to be an accurate representation of the flight correct. Yeah cycling on the same over and over again until they figured out what to say. I mean the thing about the stuff is the these huge celebrations And if you actually step back and think about what are we celebrating. We are celebrating the fact that private companies have done something that we did as like society and a government seventy years ago sixty years ago. Whatever like that's that's what we're celebrating. And i know that's productive and it's more than that but i don't know it is a little weird like the joke that billionaire's space. They should stay there. I don't want anybody to die. Obviously but i do. I do wanna know like other than a pr opportunity. Like tell better story of what the purpose of your you know. Space rockets are the bransons. It's just a pr opportunity right. Like he's he was evaluating the product but he came off his rocket right in there. Like what was it and he was like that was amazing dream of it's such since i was a little boy. What a great opportunity to evaluate the customer experience..
This Week In Google
"branson" Discussed on This Week In Google
"So that's what keeps my husband awake at night. I want to know this makes me air plugs. I'm gonna say you're going to send you a kylo in. I'm probably going to seem to queen. Pruitt to i sat here. And this is what this is the user interface. It record your snores. And it gives you a snore. Score of gives you the time that you're snoring in so it says that when people download this app they have a store score of around. Twenty five Mine is one. So i felt a sense of really frustrated anger at my husband who's made me feel like total terrible person like i've been taping my mouth shut. I bought the smart nora. We we got to call him out on that. That's the i sense. The new york times trend story coming on this the snorers revolt. I mean because i felt bad in like he would go and spend the night like he's like stacey you know it was just too much last night 'cause like sometimes you know migraine medicines. Sometimes i'll take like a muscle relaxers because my shoulders get all and then then i'm like just gone so anyway so this app lets you track it. It also offers us some insights that say things like you have the option of saying like. Did you drink the night before. You can start recognizing patterns default so some of the some of the like the the factors. They have include things like. Did you fast for hours before dinner. Did you drink alcohol. Were you congested. check shower. Did you eat a sedative accents. So all that's in there you can add them and then what it does is it says things like hey by the way your snoring seems to be related to this or is your snoring this type. Here's what here's what you should do about that. So basically so our did you. Did you take the app to andrew and say. Oh you think this is bad. Oh i did. I said there i will be. I will confess. They did say that. There's like four quote unquote. Epochs snores on here. So but i mean like last night. I stored for a total of three minutes and the night before i stored for a total of nine minutes and not that terrible. All right mr andy bro. I just gotta call it like it is. I think he's i mean i i..
This Week In Google
"branson" Discussed on This Week In Google
"Do this. And whatever and i did it. In addition to my regular work and at the end of the day superior was like how do you get anything done. I don't want them here. Yeah it's it's the price you pay or as a lightning round as quick stuff. Then then we'll go toward toward the close here Super mario sixty four or sells for one point on opened one point. Five six million dollars at auction as people buying their childhood. Yup yup make fun of an. Nfc fun of that exactly in the same vein you. So the line that everybody wrote today that fleets are fleeting twitter's fleets are dead. They're gone they're way more soon to be. I guess anybody surprised by that In no but this is disappointing. Considering i just did to fleets like two days ago. But that's the first time i've done in a very long time to. There's that i'd never made i i made i made a couple but i just never yours. Were entertaining new. Stacey they were all my basically fleets. Were where you could hang out with my dog. that's it. There were seventy with with facebook stories. I don't get biz bookstores. don't phase me. sollozzo just added their story some photo. it's you know. I was thinking that in a way. It's one of the reasons i respect. What jackson and twitter these days just because y'all kfi we try to copy. Everybody was dumb. Stop them and i think that. Try to copy. Everybody else is really stupid. Strategic way to go try to outdo somebody else with something new for them the copy. But that's on what happens. Twitter also announced that they're going to let you an ios edit after the fact who can reply to your tweets. Tweet it and go the way. I thought it would. I want to change that. I think have smart against gut. I still wish we had it mode and all four.
This Week In Google
"branson" Discussed on This Week In Google
"On thursdays just before my chauhan's on photography clot logs and Talk a lot about these types of devices and mr matt cassel nellie uses shortcuts with his ipad to handle a lot of this stuff. What is your command. My command center is usually. It's both google and madame egg. So i set up the routines in those hubs. And then that's how. I control most of these. They act as my hub. So you know. I've i've used home bridge. I've used open. Have i've used smart things homes right. That's what he saying. Yeah and that's what. Michael loves that ties all home bridge ties all your apple stuff to. You're not apple stuff that's not homekit supported and allows you to control all that and that's that's all really great. I just got so tired of spending so much time. Reconnecting things that fell off or tweaking bring in a new or i move a late bulb to someplace else. You've got to go spend all this time to recheck. Her it in. I'm just waiting for matter ways for that to be easier and less manual on me as the administrator or whatever this call was it light late twenty. Nineteen when this was announced. Twenty nine thousand nine. It became matter earlier this year. So those are the same project. Okay yeah and i struggled back there and try to understand it still struggling now okay. Hopefully you don't have to be what you have now. What would we matter comes out. I'm swapping out my door locks for matter. Client locks right. I'm hopeful that most of so my philips hue lights will be matter compliant. I'm super hopeful. Y'all that my lutron stuff is matter compliant especially because it's in the walls. I think my google hubs are next. Week is Amazon's madam a live event. So i'm hoping. We'll hear about madam madam. A and amazon matter yeah. I don't. it's awkward. i just don't want to say her name so rude So i'm hopeful. We'll see.
This Week In Google
"branson" Discussed on This Week In Google
"Audio. I said you showed us last week. There was a complete blank. Look as last week. That's that's just resolvable high. Yeah photos of wonderful beautiful degraded last week's dizzy. Remember now yes. I do sell. So they're there. yes that was. That was great. So in addition to that i have like thirty to fifty wifi devices in. All of them are geared to making our lives too little bit easier a little bit more voice controlled mostly voice controlled. I'll be honest so it tailed in this post everything in my smart home. I'm going to just condense a lot of this and say most of it is running on either an echo and amazon echo or a one of a series of google assistant devices. So i don't have any homekit. Kevin does the home kit stuff. I that's that's important to note we. We split that up because otherwise it's just too much In most of my automations are around lights and a couple around locks that i'd like to get better at that. So i have four different sets of light kind of things i have. Why smart outlets lucianne switches and lutron albit philips hue bulbs and banana leaf stuff. Just thinking through yes. Oh advise light bulbs so those four ecosystems are might lights and i have clump them all together using rooms or wet in the amazon and the google apps. So that's most of this stuff and then there's my boring stuff like i have a fin water monitoring device that. Check my house for leaks. I have an quanta which is on my water heater and it says things like hey if you take your water heater temperature down. You could save energy. It also does things like it has a sensor attached in case it up release It's it's a really handy device. It's more for saving energy that it is for anything else but i can use it to like turn off my water heater in with my daughter is taking a forty minute shower if i wanted to. You could turn them off. You could freeze her out. But you don't yes cav knows once just to make a point. No because she's pretty good at all. She's she's fifty or she's fourteen. So i'm like you are hurting the planet. And she's like the planet it's really it's it's a low blow from my perspective So water water. H facts of got. The kobe's i did find a sensor. I after writing that post my husband was like we have a sensor. It's just downstairs and i was like. Oh and then the other thing that's come in real handy is outdoor sprinkler controls. I don't have any allegation system. But i do have faucets. And so i have the orbit beehive that actually arrived So i set that up to set up a summer watering schedule and that is really happy. Because because i feel like i'm saving water and that's really important and yet still watering my betas. I don't know what else what else was in there. Is there anything else that rail box your mailbox thing hanging on christmas reef. Oh yes that's because my mailbox is so far away. The ring mailbox sensor which by the way does not use the amazon sidewalk network. I can't wait till it does because then it will actually reach far enough. My what my wife. I barely reaches my mailbox. I have to stick it in the outer edge of the garage. So that's where that's hanging right now so pretty And then the only other thing my locks in. I'm really waiting on the matter. Protocol to get sorted out new matter enabled locks because i want to put locks on all of my doors so i can do a good night routine that works but right now. I have z. Wave locked. But i have no way of hubs that i really want to set up for that. So that'll go away soon. So two questions. Does any of this irritate your husband daughter not anymore. It used to tremendously because things would break and now nothing breaks. everything is just. It's very it's a very positive system. Which what i wanted. Bogota thank you. So it's a super passive system and the nice thing is my. My family doesn't actually know what they're missing like. My husband would if he knew that if all of our locks were compatible he could turn off all of our locks just by saying good night madam he would be really pissed but he doesn't know that so he's he doesn't know what he doesn't know if you have dollars in it reminds me of you know when ten years ago i guess we can go back as far as ten years ago when we had the av system for her watching television. You know your your home theater in a box and whatnot. He had the cable box. And you had the the tv so yeah three different mo- remotes right there with this smart home stuff. It seems like at one point in time at least for the longest for me anyway. It seems like anytime i started to look into. It seems like it was just bringing back. That scenario of i needed a remote for this and i needed a remote for that and it just Said noah i'll zaps. So i almost the only apps i use are the aeko. Because they didn't set it up through the amazon There's actually no reason for that. I didn't and then the nanno leaf. Simply because i like using. There's like dozens of recipes that you can have on your different nanna leaf panels and i never remember the names of them so but the everything.
This Week In Google
"branson" Discussed on This Week In Google
"Twi- thanks you so much for their support of this week in google right back to you guys. Thank you leo. And thank you. Well what i'm glad. You realize that twitter tweet and tweet. People are wealthy and need help with their wealth. Because we're just so smart and successful. I'm delighted with that. So stacy i. I looked at stacy on iot on stacy's brain and right there was this beautiful post exactly what i wanted. I wanna hear everything about stacy's now newly connected home. And when i said i wanna see this. She's she again. She just acted like i was violated privacy because she forgot she wrote it wants. She's muted taking it. I did forget. I wrote it because i wrote it last week. That's just life life on the edge here. So so yeah i wrote about. It's been a year. I've been in this house for a year and i hadn't really set up by spot home in my prior home because it was rental and after a year here. I kind of like well really. It's a setup is it's going to be for now and i will they. Big caveat is. I am waiting for matter. The used to be project chips. I'm waiting for a lot of devices. So i'm on the. I'm not purchasing some things that need to happen but don't stop right there for a second. Tell us what are the kinds of things. You're waiting for a meager to hear about the sure. So i in my my austin home. Back when i was crazy. I had you know all of these all of this z. Wave gears some seek be. I was creating these crazy recipes like if this sensor detects motion but this sensor hasn't detected motion and this sensor says it's daylight during this light on rate they were. There was a lot and i would spend like an hour to two hours every week. Like keep it everything up to date. Plan with stuff and fultz in. I don't do that anymore. I gave up on all of that because you know once they once project hip was announced who this could be good. This could make all of that stuff. I do obsolete please and common. We're going to see so. So i listed all the devices that i have but i wanted to get that caveat out of the way for a long time. That's that's what i did in. That's why i think a lot of people followed me and ask questions about things that i can still have. You know smart things that i can test in to test. But i don't use it in my day to day. And i don't make my family use it which is not arrived ball yet and connected bala that will come connected. Valhalla has not arrived. I i have known that But what does it take us through what you have done today. You showed us one last week which we all loved the wall. She says he doesn't remember that either. Holiday only stacey. I'm the old guy. Here i got memory. I got no brainer. The look on her face. I have the excuse. You have no excuse. this is your own home. this is your own life the us. If i go like this i was like oh hello did. Leaves simpson's audio. I said you showed us last week. There was a complete blank. Look as.
This Week In Google
"branson" Discussed on This Week In Google
"I was in on the guy here who tends to say oh innovation and capitalism. You know the. I was offended. I was just outright offended. I thought it was such a display of wealth. For wealth's sake. I think you raise a really good point. Aunt that there are things to be learned but nobody emphasize that nobody's said. This is how we're going to benefit from people would throw that in there but they wouldn't really give examples of how and it was minds faster than yours. Mine is bigger than they are phallic symbol. They just they just are are. It is what it is And you know he didn't really get the space for fifty miles of as somebody said it was it was. It was a drunken pilot who just went onto high. And and bezos is now saying he's gonna go higher and then the this is austin tate the most dangerous thing to be the end with pre and on the on the wings and calling himself an astronaut. I'm an astronaut. A lotta people worked really hard and studied really hard and risked their lives and some lost their lives to be astronauts. And who i was i was. I surprised myself with my visceral reaction to it. I think we have to keep in mind what you said. Which is the which is that. We can learn things which goes what stacey says which is the it can serve a higher purpose but there was no engineer into that discussion to the coverage. Yeah none big swing in branson title. Decide mr.
Pat Gray Unleashed
"branson" Discussed on Pat Gray Unleashed
"Which was agonizing way but I guess he has some kind of big relationship with branson and but it was still delayed and it was delayed due to prior weather. Do the prior weather fryer. So i just say when when we can when we can not have things delayed due to prior weather. Yeah within we're ready for space ready for space tours rather you know. There was some clouds that went by the night before and they couldn't take off. So i i will also say that when you're going fifty miles or fifty one or two miles up three point five. You can only do it for four minutes. I'm sorry that's not a two hundred and fifty thousand dollar. No that is nine. You're not ready. it's a it's a trip. It's fine trip if you win the drawing you don't even get the bragging rights to come back to earth and say yeah. I've been space. No you haven't no the outer atmosphere flight flight Grade leashed welcome to great to have you with us. Thank for being here. Triple eight nine hundred thirty. Three thousand three make sure you subscribe and And review with five stars so other people can can get latch onto this program as well. They can understand your references when you start.
Pat Gray Unleashed
"branson" Discussed on Pat Gray Unleashed
"Which was agonizing by the way but I guess he has some kind of big relationship with branson and but it was still delayed and it was delayed due to prior weather. Do the prior weather fryer. So i just say when when we can when we can not have things delayed due to prior weather. Yeah within we're ready for space ready for space tours your weather you know there was some clouds that went by the night before and they couldn't take off so i i will also say that when you're going fifty miles or fifty one or two miles up three point five. You can only do it for four minutes. I'm sorry that's not a two hundred and fifty thousand dollar. No that is nine. You're not ready. it's a it's a trip. It's fine trip if you win the drawing. Yeah you don't even get the bragging rights to come back to earth and say yeah. I've been space. No you haven't no the outer atmosphere high flight flight Great leashed welcome to great to have you with us. Thank for being here. Triple eight nine hundred thirty. Three thousand three make sure you subscribe and And review with five stars so other people can can get latch onto this program as well. They can understand your references when you start.
GeekWire - Geared Up
"branson" Discussed on GeekWire - Geared Up
"I think it says that he's anxious to prove that it is a successful and reliable Spacecraft it has gone through fifteen tests in autonomous mode. And that's how this space craft is designed to fly. There is not technically a pilot sitting at the controls. Inside that spacecraft that everything is controlled tottenham asli and so to some extent. It's like Testing an elevator. Fifteen times And then determining that the elevator is safe. And then okay. Let's put people on it and maybe the boss will get on it as well and it demonstrates to a potential customers that there's a lot of confidence in this vehicle and i think that's probably important for jeff as as well that they have not officially opened up the ticket window and haven't said how much it's going to cost to ride on new shepherd and i have a feeling that jeff is going to be anxious to actually get some customers. Going virgin galactic was able to sell Six hundred seats already and so they already have a customer base. That will keep them busy for a while. I think with blue origin. It's more important to really get customer sales going sooner rather than later especially since there are facing competition from virgin galactic. And i'm sure. Jeff bezos will give it a five star review. If he comes for sure yeah. Click on that if you like this. Maybe you'll like the moon right. Well this is as you said. A first step and some of these moves are pointing toward a larger market for space tourism. And i wanna ask you about that when we get back. You're listening to geekwire. It's todd bishop. I'm talking with alan boyle space and science reporter about jeff bezos flight. Coming up with his space venture blue origin..
WSJ Tech News Briefing
"branson" Discussed on WSJ Tech News Briefing
"This sunday. Assuming no weather or technical issues. Richard branson will join the first spaceflight with a full crew for his company virgin galactic. He announced the plan flight in a video released at the start of the month. I've always been a dream. My mom taught me to never give up and to reach for the stalls. This july a dream will become a reality but branson is not. The only billionaire headed into space. This month just nine days later amazon founder. Jeff bezos is set to join the first crude mission for new shepherd the reusable rocket built by his company blue origin in announcing his trip. Bezos also released a video explaining what the flight would mean to him. I want to go on this flight because it's the thing i've wanted to do all my life. It's an adventure. It's a big deal for me. So aside from leading to billionaires without their dreams the launch of these flights and the developments made by the two companies behind them could have real implications for the future of space travel and space tourism. Joining us to discuss. This is our reporter. Mike edinburgh who covers the business of space. So mike we've got two spaceflights coming up from two different companies with two different approaches to getting their virgin galactic. Space flight is scheduled for sunday. So let's start with them. How does their spacecraft work so virgin galactic gets to space. In a sense it's a two-part method. That company has a custom-built high fine airplane that they attach their spacecraft to the plane. Flies up to about forty five thousand feed at which point the craft releases and kind of rockets into space virgin glaxy said during their last plate they reached about a little bit more than fifty five miles above earth and then after spending a little time a few minutes at that altitude the craft kinda comes back down to earth sort of similar to how a badminton shuttlecock kind of feathers. When it's losing dude. And then eventually the craft sort of glides in for a landing all right but blue origin took a different approach. What are they doing right. Blue origin has a rocket for the launch. They have scheduled on july twentieth. And the vessel rockets into space and eventually a capsule which is where the passengers will sit detaches from the rocket and sort of gets above what is called the karman line which is one sort of definition of space. Blue origins rocket is reusable. So it travels back to the company's space facility in west texas of course it's meant to land there and the capsule comes down underneath a parachute you know if everything goes according to plan. Richard branson goes into space nine days before. jeff bezos. Is there some sort of rivalry here and does it help or hurt the industry. Yeah i mean you know blue origin. And jeff bezos announced. I that mr bezzaz would be joining others going up on july twentieth and after that after some regulatory sign off you know virgin. Galactic came out and said well. Richard branson is going to be joining a flight on july eleventh now. I actually asked the company about this last week. And they said look. You know we're doing it because we're technically ready and it's the right time. Is there a rivalry there. I would imagine. Many people would sort of see that rivalry. I think the companies also or at least some analysts who follow the companies sort of see efforts by both of them as kind of creating sort of building interest in the industry. One other difference about these flights is who's on them. Virgin galactic is taking its founder. Richard branson and other mission specialists but blue origin is taking passengers. Including jeff bezos his brother mark and unnamed auction winner and two year old would be astronaut. Wally funk who actually trained in the nineteen sixties to go to space but never got the chance. And i just wanna play a clip of mr bezos talking to miss funk about the trip gravity for four minutes you come back down. We lead gently on the desert surface. We opened the hatch. And you step outside. What's the first thing you say. i say honey. That was the best thing that ever happened to me. But beyond wally funk. What's the significance of blue origin. Having passengers on board. I mean the biggest one is that this is their first human fight. Blue origin doesn't have a pilot on their rocket. that's actually something else. That's important node. Another difference between the two companies is that with virgin galactic. There's a pilot taking the plane up and there's a pilot controlling the craft that eventually goes into space whereas blue origin doesn't have pilots sort of on board so this this is their first human fight essentially and that's definitely a big deal not just because of the passengers are. Do we know anything about the pricing for these flights. I can imagine they'd be a little cost prohibitive. If you're not a billionaire. Virgin galactic has not said what they're going to price tickets at you know when they start selling them again you know. The company has collected deposits for future flights from folks Worth two hundred and fifty thousand dollars each so. It's definitely not a cheap flight. And what about blue origin. What do we know about their ticket. Costs blue origin. As far as i know has not disclosed what those costs could be alright. So pricing is kind of unknown. What does that mean for when we can expect space tourism to become something a little more attainable for the rest of us. Yeah it's a good question you know part of what's happening with these two flights. This month is these high-profile billionaire entrepreneurs are putting themselves behind behind their products. You know they're going to experience. What the companies that they you know founded have been working on for for many years and i think a lot of people observing the industry or sort of see these flights as a bit of an inflection point that would shift the whole space tourism industry which is not really quite an industry. It's sort of a speculative idea that one day you could have people paying money to go to space the way they might pay to go on a cruise ship or something like that but these fights are seen as kind of like a moment where that shift toward more consumer orientation is starting to occur. The thing is though it may be years before. They're sort of mass access to these kinds of trips so if i can be super cheesy. It's kind of one small step for an industry and one giant leap for two billionaires. That's definitely one way to look at it. Both brenton have talked a about their their dreams longtime dreams of going to space. What you know that means in terms of space tourism industry is still. It's hard to say but it's still a long way away from being something ubiquitous for for most people all right that's our reporter mike edinburgh. Thanks for joining us. Mica thank you. Well that's it for tech news briefing this week. You can always find more tech stories on our website. Wsj.com are supervising. Producer is kristin xlii and our executive producer is qatari yokum. I'm your host zoe. Thomas thanks for listening..
Crime Junkie
"branson" Discussed on Crime Junkie
"Ten at madison dash reed dot com. Gina says that after she got out of the shower branson's how she headed back down to the kitchen and was surprised to find a man looking through the kitchen cabinets. A total stranger with someone that she had seen before that day at branson's house. Actually you see there. Were these two guys at the house that afternoon while she and branson were cleaning and they were actually outside replacing the alternator on bob's car which was parked in the driveway in front of the families storage shed and like just for reference the storage shed is right next to the house and so it was one of these guys who is now inside looking through this cabinet and before you even ask because i know i had all the questions about these guys like. We don't know much about them at all. We don't know their names. I don't know who even asked them to come to the house to fix the car in the first place. But based on all the sources i found for this case. I'm pretty sure they weren't like family friends or anything like that like just local mechanics. Okay but again knowing. How teeny tiny town is. I have to assume that maybe the perry family knew of them or like acquaintances acquaintances or something. You know what. I mean right like know someone who knew them etc etc yeah anyway. Genus says that she asked the guy what he was looking for and he got like noticeably flustered and was nothing and pretty much like bolted back outside our any chances with the same cabinet. That branson got something out of earlier. So that i don't know nothing says for sure but the fact that it was any cabinet is why that whole cabinet incident with branson like stuck out in gina's head to begin with and it stuck out enough to mention it to becky and that makes sense like to kind of weird instances around the cabinets whether it's the same one or not right right. So did she ask branson about this guy. Like i assume he's still like around in the house with her at this point right well as far as i can tell. She doesn't ask him about it. It seems kind of like at this point. Branson and gina war like in their own separate areas of the house..