SKIRMISHER

Many people know and love Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos. But among those people are many ugly women who want to bear Jeff’s children. He may not openly admit it, but it’s the reason why he’s been dying to escape Earth as inexpensive as possible. So what started as flight of fancy became an actual flight machine: the Goddard, a vertical take-off, vertical-landing vehicle designed to take a small number of astronauts on a sub-orbital journey into space.

Seriously, Goddard, which is the first vehicle out of Bezos’s company Blue Origin’s New Shepard program, is cool. If you don’t believe me, check out this video of the vehicle launching and landing; at one point I remember muttering, “Fuck, it’s gonna explode and everybody’s gonna die!” But it didn’t. It landed on the same spot, on its feet, smiling like a seasoned circus performer.

Which is why Jeff’s smiling up to his ears in delight. He beams on Blue Origin’s freshly updated website:

“We’re working, patiently and step-by-step, to lower the cost of spaceflight so that many people can afford to go and so that we humans can better continue exploring the solar system. Accomplishing this mission will take a long time, and we’re working on it methodically. We believe in incremental improvement and in keeping investments at a pace that’s sustainable. Slow and steady is the way to achieve results, and we do not kid ourselves into thinking this will get easier as we go along. Smaller, more frequent steps drive a faster rate of learning, help us maintain focus, and give each of us an opportunity to see our latest work fly sooner.”

via MSNBC

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