Spaceport might make Japan a quick commute - Hawaii News

My sweet Lolita alice. Come here!

Ice Ice Baby wrote:

Wow! Suborbital flights taking off from the Big Island! These rocket planes fly higher than the international boundry located between the Earth and Space which is known as the Karman Line. It's hard to believe jet fuel, even synthetic jet fuel, doesn't harm the environment, but I guess we'll take their word for it until the EIS and EA reports come out. I'm just wondering how the state will come up with $500,000 for the FAA/AST licensing. I'm also wondering how many "high-end" tourists can come up with $200,000 for the tickets?

Maybe they should take the $half mil which will be used for federal aviation licensing out of HTA funds.

Hellina Handbasket wrote:

WHY do HAWAII TAX-PAYERS have to PAY $500,000 for this???
If it is SO GREAT and PROFITABLE- why aren't the people running this business pay for it?
This seems like a total SCAM on Hawaii Tax-Payers during what is going to be a very BIG and LONG ECONOMIC DEPRESSION!

Yeah that's right. If it gets off the ground that would be fine. But what if decision makers decide to circumvent some environmental laws and these space entrepreneurs realize that Hawaii is a difficult place to do business and decide to bail out on us and go the way of the Hawaii Superferry? Being that I am a state worker, the money would be better spent giving me a raise.

The Astronaut Governor(2009)

To save the state from falling further into debt, a governor decides to pursue her dreams of intergalactic travel-- when Rocketplane comes knocking at her Washington Place door. Enduring the jeers of the local townspeople, she keeps her eyes on the sky, determined to realize her ambition of orbiting the earth.

Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Linda Lingle, Marsha Wiener and Chuck Lauer

Director: Jim Crisafulli

Genre: Political Drama

Format: Widescreen

Language: English, Hawaiian, Japanese

Subtitles: Pidgin English

PG For thematic material, scenes of protest

Wildman wrote:

The new rail route has now been revised and includes the space port...Kapolei resideents must get off and transfer from there to get to Manoa.
hopefully no one will float away...during that time...i wish.....Wildman.

You should be stoked about the spaceport. Maybe this will give you a chance to return to your home planet.

Wait, a SPACEPORT? You mean for going to space? A spaceport? Perhaps I heard you wrong, I thought you said spaceport.......Seriously?
The simpletons on this island can't even properly fill a pothole, and will never get around to building a rail system, but now they want to try their hands at facility designed to put vehicles in space........got it.
Here's some advice...stick to banging coconuts together, smoking ice and ripping off tourists.

Spaceport.......Ha. Now THATS a good one.

Bright Side wrote:

<quoted text>You should be stoked about the spaceport. Maybe this will give you a chance to return to your home planet.

We saved you a special seat...in the baggage compartment...Don't float away with Kapolie....

Hawaiian Kingdumb wrote:

Wait, a SPACEPORT? You mean for going to space? A spaceport? Perhaps I heard you wrong, I thought you said spaceport.......Seriously?
The simpletons on this island can't even properly fill a pothole, and will never get around to building a rail system, but now they want to try their hands at facility designed to put vehicles in space........got it.
Here's some advice...stick to banging coconuts together, smoking ice and ripping off tourists.
Spaceport.......Ha. Now THATS a good one.

Um, they're gonna use the EXISTING airport runways, Einstein.

Who Da Lolo wrote:

<quoted text>Um, they're gonna use the EXISTING airport runways, Einstein.

Aw man!..don't tell em that..i was having fun with em...aw ok, your absolutely right!...wildman.

I sort of doubt if anyone is going to drag the extra weight of air breathing engines into space, like the picture implies. And any vertical launch would involve solid fuel launchers which do put out some nasty exhaust. The exhaust was one of the big reasons the original spaceport in Ka'U was a non-starter, all of Kona would have been breathing and raincatching perchlorate residue. Rutan's mother ship concept where the space plane gets carried up to 50,000 feet before launch is a good idea, and 500,000$ for a great future tourist attraction is a good investment. The big fly in the ointment that I see is the spaceplane comes back in for a "dead-stick" landing. That would be possible at Hilo airport , but waving off all the other traffic at Honolulu International/ Hickam AFB would be impossible.

Sierra Club wants an EIS first, the ozone might screw up thier hiking trails.

Will the benches at the destination end still be occupied by the homeless?

How do you prevent newly unincubated components of H1N1 & other viruses from arriving?

mush wrote:

The Kauai surf protesters will need to buy rocket packs to protest that SpaceFerry.

Nah ! We'll give em a free ride and leave them up there !:)

Super Space Ferry !

No Whales,Young Brothers up there !

Sierra Club as no jurisdiction up there ;)

Wait ! Union Labor ?:(

Space Head Alice in Space Land.......Sweet.

Launch the tinfoil kid into orbit? Priceless!

dewdalohajoey wrote:

Eddie Aikau would go.

A real local wouldn't say Aikau. I guess you not local no more.

yer losin it wrote:

<quoted text>
A real local wouldn't say Aikau. I guess you not local no more.

No worry cuz....no beeg ting.

derogatory statement made by the Grinchie

To all bloggers.....do not respond to Grinch!...
she is a mainlander who is prejudice against the
BLACKS....she proved it in her statement above ...
no one with common sense would dare use that word to describe a person...espeically after all the racist reports in the U.S....UNFORTUNALTELY,
SHE'S FROM OAKLAND CALIFORNIA...I HOPE THE BLACK'S THERE KICK HER BUTT IN FOR GOOD!.....