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      CommentAuthororwellseyes
    • CommentTimeOct 3rd 2008 edited
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    This is just...sad. Via Valleywag

    Playboy capitalist Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic will take your $200,000 to book a brief trip to space. But when offered $1 million cash upfront to let an unnamed pornographer film some zero-gravity, superatmospheric nookie with the futurist-fetish SpaceShipTwo cabin as a backdrop, the space-tourism startup declined.


    Getting your freak on in sub-orbit? Oh I'd buy that. I'm surprised they haven't gotten the "Zero G" flight people to agree to this. Mind you, you'd have to be pretty quick what with 25 seconds of weightlessness to every 65 seconds of flight time.
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    Space bukkake?
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      CommentAuthorLuke
    • CommentTimeOct 3rd 2008
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    Man, that's such a missed opportunity. This guy's meant to be in the whole media thing, he knows how much money there is. If we can connect the sexdrive to the spacedrive then screw "Finer motives", we'll have funding as far as Andromeda before the decade's out.

    The idea of filtering space culture based on the taboos and trends of things on the ground is the exact opposite of what we need to happen - luckily is only because of a lack of providers. The tech will spread, and then we'll see all kinds of things happening up there.
    • CommentAuthorpi8you
    • CommentTimeOct 3rd 2008
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    Oh come on, we need to know all about sex in space... for science!
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      CommentAuthormister hex
    • CommentTimeOct 3rd 2008
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    Yes. For science. Do it for science. I'd be willing to bet Branson's already done it, though.
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    I was almost certain that someone had done this already... but I really don't want to google "zero gravity money shot", so I can't really back that up.
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      CommentAuthorAlastair
    • CommentTimeOct 3rd 2008
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    they have.... i saw it on (maybe) eurotrash
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      CommentAuthorkeighter
    • CommentTimeOct 3rd 2008
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    Why haven't these NASA documents been leaked to the interwebs? Wait... guh I really don't want to see astronauts getting their fluid sharing on...
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    private did it using the vomit comet to simulate zero gravity for the, ahem, 'uranus experiment' which features music from massive attack and the prodigy.
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    Virgin Galactic would be far more upscale in terms of smut. The mood lighting in the cabin, the extended weightlessness, Richard Branson leering at you.
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    "He cites a confidential Nasa report on a space shuttle mission in 1996. A project codenamed STS-XX was to explore sexual positions possible in a weightless atmosphere.

    Twenty positions were tested by computer simulation to obtain the best 10, he says. "Two guinea pigs then tested them in real zero-gravity conditions. The results were videotaped but are considered so sensitive that even Nasa was only given a censored version." "

    Here's (roughly) how one of the first married astronauts to go on a mission with their spouse had to say about sex in space.

    The inside of the space shuttle is about the size of a Kombi van. There are six to eight people in there and on most missions at least a couple of them are throwing up. There are no shower facilities. People wear diapers continuously because many people's bladders leak in space and nobody wants to inhale droplets of urine. The lights are on constantly. The noise level is like the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant. There are two single bunks which are used in rotation around the clock (by people who haven't showered for up to a week). The bunks have a cloth flap you can zip shut to keep out some of the noise. That's the nearest you get to privacy.

    Oh and in zero G fluids built up in your head meaning you feel like you have a severe head cold.

    I think it'll take more than claims of a "confidential report" to convince me NASA astronauts had sex on the shuttle.

    I want pictures.

    For the sake of science, naturally,
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    @Kosmopolit:

    I can think of a few people of, shall we say an "open-minded" nature who would actually get off on those conditions. Especially the loss of bladder control.

    Though I do run with a rather fucked up crowd. Who, perhaps thankfully, would never be allowed near a shuttle.
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      CommentAuthorLazarus99
    • CommentTimeOct 4th 2008
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    @orwellseyes

    Though I do run with a rather fucked up crowd


    Judged solely on your user photo, I can see that, thanks...
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      CommentAuthormister hex
    • CommentTimeOct 4th 2008
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    I just want to cuddle in zero g.
    • CommentAuthorcjstevens
    • CommentTimeOct 4th 2008
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    Pretty sure Hawking hasn't done it though...
    • CommentAuthorCassius
    • CommentTimeOct 5th 2008 edited
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    "Virgin Galactic would be far more upscale in terms of smut. The mood lighting in the cabin, the extended weightlessness, Richard Branson leering at you."

    Make me unthink it!

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