From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Apr 27 2003 - 20:37:52 MDT
--- "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
>
> This ought to make Greg turn cartwheels...
>
> Bezos in Space
> Newsweek, May 5, 2003 (how did MSNBC get this a week early???)
> http://www.msnbc.com/news/904842.asp?0cv=KA01
>
> Discusses the Bezos skunk works for a rocket that might
> bootstrap the space tourism business.
Like Scaled Composites, Blue Origin is acting secretive, but even more
secretive than Scaled. Their web site http://www.blueorigin.com has
exactly two pages: an index and a jobs page that says they are looking
for the best aerospace engineers in the industry. That Bezos says they
haven't done anything of note yet is a good explaination. That he
doesn't need to worry about raising capital is also another one. Dean
Kamen's experience promoting the mysterious "IT" is evidence of how
much hype you can get by not telling anybody anything. Reporters are
apparently turned on by coy attitudes, just so long as you act cute
about it rather than suspicious, I suppose, and so long as there aren't
any shareholder lawsuits in the offing... perhaps it's time to buy some
Amazon stock.... ;)
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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
- Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid
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