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Richard Garriott blasts into Space
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Never mind John Carmack and his Ferrari, the real reason to make video games is to one day become a space tourist.
Richard Garriot, maker of the Ultima games, blasted off this morning. I think he might have lost an eight (humility).
Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081012.wastronaut1012/BNStory/Science/home
Richard Garriot, maker of the Ultima games, blasted off this morning. I think he might have lost an eight (humility).
Link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20081012.wastronaut1012/BNStory/Science/home
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan — An American computer game designer reached space Sunday, fulfilling a long-deferred childhood dream that began with the flight of his astronaut father.
The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft carrying Richard Garriott and two crewmates — and the digitized DNA sequences of some of the world's most famous minds — hurtled into a clear blue sky from the Baikonur facility on the Kazakh steppe.
Mr. Garriott, a 47-year-old multimillionaire from Austin, Texas, is the sixth paying space traveller and the first American to follow a parent into orbit.
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It's General British now!
Maybe he'll find a good game up there to release. :P
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What?
How did he bring the DNA information of more than two persons into space?
I mean, are those dudes who had the two PB drives that are the size of a tower sponsoring this, or is this what would constitute scientific fraud at any university?
Also, GODDAMNIT GARRIOT, WE WANT MORE STEAMPUNK GAMES.
nasa should refuse to let him land back to earth unless a good plan for UO2 is documented.
I play Blazblue, Soul Calibur 4, Street Fighter 4 and soon Tekken 6... yeah... so add me if you want to play any of those.
fuck that, Carmack is making his own space ship. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armadillo_Aerospace
Carmack is so awesome.
UO is out of Garriott's hands now, no?
I didn't know his father was an astronaut, that's pretty cool. Rock on, LB.
Hopefully in space he figures out something that's more fun than Tabula Rasa and then comes down and implements it, because damn.
I wonder why he wouldn't work on portal technology instead
I'd like Ultima X.
He actually didn't even have anything to do with UO2. He left Origin before development started, and it showed. They had three sets of fiction being thrown up on the official site, and the Brittania part of the fiction basically had British fucking up the world even worse, then just getting the fuck out.
But yeah, LB got sick of being a part of what he called "EA's UO company" and left. Ultima 9 was the end of Ultima for him.
Comrade British actually.
What do you mean by... DNA information?D:
He has a microchip that he is going to bolt to the ISS or something that has a bunch of information on it. Like the Voyager Golden Disc except shittier and without any meaning at all considering the ISS will eventually reenter the atmosphere in a few decades.
A publicity stunt that helped fund his trip up there. Well, that and the 80m he got for the Ultima license.
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Awesome.
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He was also on Colbert talking about it. That was awesome.
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Hahahahaha.
http://www.blizzard.com/us/starcraft/sis/
been there, done that