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Wow, that's been ten years already. If that 339M USD figure is accurate, they could have partnered with a few companies to launch a real space ship. Shades of t
by reincarnate0x14 5y ago
Wow, that's been ten years already. If that 339M USD figure is accurate, they could have partnered with a few companies to launch a real space ship. Shades of the never-ending train of hype and mostly lies that was Battlecruiser 3000 two decades earlier. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlecruiser_3000AD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlecruiser_3000AD )
There is a clearly a giant wad of latent demand-money sitting around waiting for someone to deliver on the concept, would be interesting if some studio with more traditional funding makes a go of it.
- cptnapalm 5y agoGoing from "we're going to make a game about space ships" to "we're going to launch a real space ship" would be a feature creep deserving of a monument.