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#1 2005-03-02 08:14:14
- BWhite
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Re: Marketing SpaceShipOne - An editorial
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Discuss amongst ourselves. 
Awesome quote, btw:
“You read those books where luxury comes as a guest to take a slave…Books where artists in noble poverty go like virgins to the grave.” – Joni Mitchell
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#2 2005-03-02 13:09:57
- Ian Flint
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Re: Marketing SpaceShipOne - An editorial
The author has a point about mixing up the marketing. I think they should definitely market to the masses, though. Have M & M or any other company give away free tickets...I've got a golden ticket... ??? Sell lottery tickets, etc.
They should have a separate marketing campaign for the ultra-rich, cash paying customers. Call the vehicle something else, even if it is the exact same design. Package it with other luxuries. No mass marketing or tacky logos on the vehicle, etc.
By the way, did M & M actually sponsor SS1, or did the author just make that up?
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#3 2005-03-02 14:02:13
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The author has a lot of his info straight from an obviously very drunk horse's mouth...
For starters it's not Winnie, how dares he.
Maybe it was trying to be funny? Seesh.
And it was the other pilot, Melvill, that floated the M&M's, without anyone's prior knowledge. M&M was delighted of course.
Oh, and the article itself?
Another very black and white opinion piece, begging for angry reactionsonce again. Sigh.
i give it 3 outa 10, for trolling.
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#4 2005-03-02 14:42:33
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Ian, don't you remember the SS1 video tape?
The pilot tossed a bunch of M&Ms in the air while they were at zero-gee. Kinda stupid, what if one got jammed in an instrument, or something.
Anyway, Volvo pretty much did the golden ticket thing at the Super Bowl, right?
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#5 2005-03-02 14:55:00
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Ian, don't you remember the SS1 video tape?
The pilot tossed a bunch of M&Ms in the air while they were at zero-gee.
Well of course I remember the M&M thing. I was asking if they paid Mojave Aerospace to do it. But rxke answered my question anyway.
I think they were kinda stupid not to get any sponsorship money from M&M. I'm sure they would have paid something.
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#6 2005-03-02 15:22:33
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Sorry Ian, for being snarky.
The wing-nuts have got me in a mood. ???
Wing-nuts only spin right, ya' know. :;):
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#7 2005-03-02 15:37:29
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Wing-nuts only spin right, ya' know.
Nah, they spin left too.
Right before they fly off.
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
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#8 2005-03-02 15:44:59
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...and find their freedom!
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#9 2005-03-02 15:48:12
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...and find their freedom!
Fly away, be free!
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#10 2005-03-03 09:53:59
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What we need are rockets that combust snake oil with LOX.
There has got to be a story title arising from the idea of "burning some snake oil"
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#11 2005-03-03 10:00:20
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"Rocket Potion #5"?
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#12 2005-03-08 14:56:29
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Snake oil - - better than any rocket fuel. Even better than slushed hydrogen.
SpaceShipOne has yet to fly a single tourist, yet it has already helped sell http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stori … TE=]Volvos.
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