Comments by "Sebastian Nolte" (@sebastiannolte1201) on "CNBC Television" channel.

Interesting to see the different coverage between USA and Germany. CNBC says "Pfizer and their partner Biontech" while here in Germany it is usual "Biontech and their partner Pfizer" :-)
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"ok we can fly high but not into space. " It is funny to read that. So how high can we fly and why? Can you give me a certain altitude, please? Are you even aware that the atmosphere becomes thinner fluently so we cannot even say where it ends? And that all definitions for the beginning of space are more or less arbitrary?
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I am not sure if I have understand you correctly. Do you really ask "Why should I take a vaccine against a disease, if I am not having the disease"?
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What? So you think there is a company with 6,000 employees offers a tourist attraction, that you can book on their website, and meanwhile 32 individuals in 6 flights did it (not even talking about all the unmanned flights, so 24 overall since 2015). And it is all fake? How does that work? So the interested individuals have to pretend that it is real? But of course the main problem: Why even should it be fake in the first place? It so random to say "fake" to such a normal thing like a rocket launch. It is just a capsule that is shot up and fall down. A ten minutes carnival ride for rich people, nothing more. Why is that something that has to be fake? Do you believe that airplanes are real?
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This is not "space exploration". They are just shot up and fall down, it is a ten minutes carnival ride for rich people. If they would release a satellite it would fall down, because they don't go into orbit. Oh, yes, they were a bit above 100 km so they call it "space". Of course that is arbitrary, the experience would have been the same if they would reach only 90 km.
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"That’s not space." Well, according to US definitions (80 km) they were in space. Not by the most used international definition (100 km). At the end it is all arbitrary and doesn't really matter. "That’s zero gravity flight." That is correct. But what does that have to do with the question "space or not space"? You can go straight up and fall down and you have a zero gravity flight. But if it reaches a certain altitude, then it is in space.
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Karman Line fundamentalist? ;-)
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What? So you think there is a company with 6,000 employees offers a tourist attraction, that you can book on their website, and meanwhile 32 individuals in 6 flights did it (not even talking about all the unmanned flights, so 24 overall since 2015). And it is all fake? How does that work? So the interested individuals have to pretend that it is real? But of course the main problem: Why even should it be fake in the first place? It so random to say "fake" to such a normal thing like a rocket launch. It is just a capsule that is shot up and fall down. A ten minutes carnival ride for rich people, nothing more. Why is that something that has to be fake? Do you believe that airplanes are real?
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What? So you think there is a company with 6,000 employees offers a tourist attraction, that you can book on their website, and meanwhile 32 individuals in 6 flights did it (not even talking about all the unmanned flights, so 24 overall since 2015). And it is all fake? How does that work? So the interested individuals have to pretend that it is real? But of course the main problem: Why even should it be fake in the first place? It so random to say "fake" to such a normal thing like a rocket launch. It is just a capsule that is shot up and fall down. A ten minutes carnival ride for rich people, nothing more. Why is that something that has to be fake? Do you believe that airplanes are real?
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Actually the first rich man in space was Denis Tito. And he did not just made a hop to only 86 km, but instead he was on the ISS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Tito And there were six other private astronauts (all millionairs, otherwise they could not do it) after it. This is not about Richard Bransons flight, he just was together with other employees in the first flight of his own company. The point of this is to offer a tourist attraction. You can book these flights.
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They hired one of the best: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Rutan
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Nobody coul hide something like that.
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Well, they passed the US definition for space (80 km). And the most used 100 km defintion is also more or less arbitrary at the end, so it doesn't really matter
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What do you expect to see?
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"Why don't one of these billionaires put a 4k camera on the moon and pointed at the Earth so that we can see it spinning in real time." Spinning in real time? You know that the earth only makes one rotation in 24 hours? That is extremely slow, it makes no sense to put a video camera with several images per second there. "What an amazing tool to study the effects of global warming and human beings impact on the Earth. " Well, we have a tool for exactly that. There is the "Deep Space Climate Observatory " that is on the LaGrange Point 1 between earth and sun. As the name indicates, it is used for study the effects of global warming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory And it has a camera on, and it takes more than 10 images per day. Or at least so many for the public and everybody can see them: https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ So what do you say now? Are you not satisfied, because it is not on the moon? Or do you just say "That is fake" - then you would expose yourself. So we have cameras (another one also mentioned Himawari-8, that even takes a pictue every ten minutes) that take pictures of the earth all the time which can bee seen by everybody on the internet. But you aks for one certain other camera - why would you believe that? If they would put a camera on the moon you also wíll just say that it is fake, of course! So why do you even ask for it?
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@elaxel1469 Of course it does. Like any airplane leaves the ground, so the earth. So what do you mean with "leaving planet earth"?
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