#Jeff Branson

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L'Uomo Vogue November 2006

Jeff Branson by Michel Comte

Styled by Robert Rabensteiner

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From the dreamy gay porn actors series: Jeffry (or Jeff/Jeffrey) Branson

I love this type of art 😍

Jeffry (or Jeff/Jeffrey) Branson

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first of:   this blog is satire, i definitely do not wish anyone to die (and i dont believe anything will happen in this case).  

more info: The company “Virgin Galactic” is owned by billionaire Richard Branson and direct competition to Jeff Bezo’s “Blue Origin”. The company’s goal is to develop commercial spacecraft and offer suborbital flights to space tourists. One ticket costs $450,000 and if this first initial flight is successful, the company plans to offer 3 launches per month. This first flight is not a tourist trip for billionaires but a research flight were members of Italian Air Force and National Research Council (of Italy) will conduct 13 experiments in a 90-minute flight. It is the first space research mission of the aforementioned groups.

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Rejected Bad: Wikipedia

The following is a rejected script from an early season of Breaking Bad.

INT. DEA OFFICE - DAY

Hank sits at his desk, while Mike walks in with a perplexed expression. Walter paces back and forth, agitated.

HANK: (looking up) What's got you boys all worked up?

Walter stops pacing and faces Hank and Mike.

WALTER: (urgent) Gentlemen, I've made a shocking discovery. That bastard Bezos is planning on moving to California and launching a meth powered rocket to target Albuquerque..

HANK: (sceptical) Bezos, the Amazon guy? Walter, you sure about this?

MIKE: (leaning against the desk) Walter, if Bezos was really moving to Cali, it'd be all over the news. You can't just speculate.

WALTER: (defiant) No, I'm sure of it. He's got some diabolical plan, and we need to stop him before it's too late.

Hank rubs his forehead, exasperated.

HANK: Walter, calm down. If this is true, there has to be some evidence. Why don't we look it up together on Wikipedia?

Walter scoffs at the idea.

WALTER: (dismissive) Wikipedia? Come on, Hank. The free online encyclopaedia that anyone can edit?

Mike chuckles and pulls out his phone.

MIKE: (nods) But it's a good starting point. Let's just see what we find.

INT. DEA OFFICE - CONTINUOUS

Walter reluctantly walks over to Hank’s desk as Mike begins searching on his phone, while Hank watches with raised eyebrows.

MIKE: (tapping on his phone) Alright, let's check this out. Bezos' current residence.

Walter leans in, his eyes darting across Mike's phone screen.

MIKE: (raised eyebrows) Ah, here it is. Bezos resides in Medina, Washington. Not California. The president would not allow rockets in Washington. Remember when he banned flying kites?

Walter freezes, his face twists in disbelief.

WALTER: (angry) That's impossible! He must have edited the article himself to cover his tracks!

Hank, frustrated, stands up from his desk.

HANK: (voice raised) Walter, this conspiracy theory is getting out of hand. Bezos has no reason to target New Mexico. Remember, he's a bald billionaire CEO, not some supervillain. I’m bald, am I a supervillain?

Walter becomes visibly deflated, realising his mistake.

WALTER: (defeated) But… I was so sure. I thought I had him figured out.

MIKE: (puts a hand on Walter's shoulder) Walter, we all make mistakes. But let's keep our focus on what's important. Building our business and keeping our operation intact.

Hank grabs his jacket from the back of his chair, preparing to leave.

HANK: (sighs) Alright, enough excitement for one day. Walter, leave Bezos to the FBI, CIA, NSA, and Richard Branson. We have our own problems to deal with here in New Mexico.

Walter nods reluctantly, reassessing his priorities.

WALTER: (sullen) Yeah, you're right. Let's get back to work.

Hank and Mike exchange a knowing look as the tension dissipates.

EXT. DEA OFFICE - DAY

Hank, Mike, and Walter exit the office, heading in different directions, ready to face the challenges that lie ahead.

FADE OUT.

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“Don’t Look Down”

12x24 inches

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“Treat others with respect, You can’t succeed alone, Have a vision and believe it, Rediscovering creativity, and Curiosity.”

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L'Uomo Vogue November 2006 photos Michel Comte fashion editor Robert Rabensteiner

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Jeffry Branson

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Top 5 Most Successful Entrepreneurs in the World 2023

The Most successful entrepreneurs in the world are those who are able to create a successful business model and manage it well. They are able to identify and capitalize on new trends and technology and are able to keep up with the ever-changing market. They are also able to develop and maintain strong relationships with their customers and suppliers. These are just a few of the most successful…

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GEO: Conquête spatiale : l'espace est-il une zone de non-droit ?

GEO: Conquête spatiale : l'espace est-il une zone de non-droit ?.

https://www.geo.fr/environnement/conquete-spatiale-lespace-est-il-une-zone-de-non-droit-212741

Nous n'en sommes pas à la conquête mais à l'exploration en vue d'exploitation, principalement minérales, des ressources spaciales.

Le droit spacial semble hors de portée pour l'instant, on peut espérer voir des jurisprudences internationales s'instaurer à fur et à mesure de la progression de l'exploration.

L'intervention d'agences privées sous la primature d'agences nationales d'Etat vise à démultiplier l'effort d'exploration en vue des exploitations futures et à venir !

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Founder of Patagonia Figures There Already Enough Billionaires in Space

Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, who has previously expressed his reluctance at amassing wealth, is giving away his company. Unlike fellow billionaires Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Richard Branson, Chouinard will not be using his wealth on a vanity space project, and instead his outdoor apparel company will now be in the hands of a trust and a nonprofit organization. All future profits will be donated to help fight climate change. “It's been a half-century since we began our experiment in responsible business,” Chouinard, 84, said. “If we have any hope of a thriving planet 50 years from now, it demands all of us doing all we can with the resources we have. Plus, there’s already enough eccentric asshole billionaires in space.” This stunning move by a rich business owner will hopefully serve notice to others to not be such selfish, vain, money grubbing dickheads who should be part of the solution instead of the problem.

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One of my favourite spaceflight facts is that, due to some heavy technicalities on what the universally accepted definition of an astronaut is, and the intense secrecy surrounding the Soviet Union at the time, the entire Vostok program, AKA the thing that first took humans into space, technically doesn't count and everyone just agrees to ignore that.

Submitting my claim that Vostok is actually the cutest spacecraft ever, which is an entirely normal statement.

When they sat down and defined what counts as a successful manned flight, part of the requirements included the astronaut(s) landing in the vehicle. But Vostok didn't do that. Instead, the Vostok cosmonauts ejected from the vehicle after re-entry and parachuted to the ground separately. This continued until the later Voskhod missions, where they ripped out the ejector seat so they could fit more guys inside (and on the second one, one guy and an inflatable airlock so one of them could do the first spacewalk), and put in a rollcage so that landing inside the vehicle wouldn't turn them to goo.

But by the time Voskhod 1 blasted off from Baikonur, all of the Mercury flights had already been flown, so this means that, according to the rules, America technically completed the first manned space flights.

Another technicality was added to the list a couple of years back, when the guys that make the rules futzed with said rules in order to deny Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson astronaut status, because fuck 'em. Now, in order to be an astronaut, you have to actually do something on the flight, otherwise you're just a passenger. And many of the Vostok flights were indeed more like passengers than crew. The Vostok spacecraft is pretty much a big satellite with a passenger compartment and a re-entry module, and it's fully automated.

So why didn't these technicalities get called out? The USA and USSR were never shy about trying to embarrass each other, or make each other look foolish on the world stage. One of the biggest reasons why we know the Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory is total stupidity is that the USSR congratulated NASA on the successful landing, because if it had been recorded on a soundstage in Area 51, the Soviets would've been the first to call bullshit.

Well, part of it is just that the Americans didn't know about the specifics of the Vostok program at the time. Whereas the American space program was a very public affair with cheering crowds showing up to watch every launch, the Soviets were much, much more clandestine than that. Baikonur is in the middle of the Kazakh desert, and the Soviets were keen to lie about anything that went wrong.

When their attempt at a moon rocket, the N1, endured four successive failures on launch, mostly caused by the Soviets lacking the funding and the facilities to properly test the thing, and instead just had to launch fully built rockets and hope they worked, the Soviets simply scrapped the last two and declared that they'd never intended to go to the Moon and were all about Earth orbit instead.

The N1 was actually more powerful than the Saturn V, but because it never reached operational status and the Soviets preferred to pretend it didn't exist, the Saturn V remained the world's most powerful rocket until Artemis 1 flew last year. A similar situation is happening now, with SpaceX's Superheavy being more powerful than the SLS, but also being basically a giant bomb at the moment.

Most Americans had no idea how Vostok worked, and didn't even know what it looked like. They didn't get to see what a Soviet spacecraft actually looked like up close until the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975.

Behold, the setting for the most expensive handshake in history.

By the time the full details came out, the world had known that the Soviets did it first for decades, and challenging that doesn't really do much for anyone besides the people that want to go "Um, ackchully" about everything.

Additionally, the rules weren't even written yet at the time, so there's even less reason to start changing shit up now. Vostok might be technically breaking the rules, but nobody cares, and downplaying the immense technical achievements of Sergei Korolev, Yuri Gagarin, and everyone else that worked on the early Soviet spaceflights on account of a rules quirk that wasn't even written yet is just kinda dumb.

(Random sidenote, Korolev was the chief designer of much of the USSR's early spacecraft, including the R7 rocket that carried both Sputnik and Vostok into space, and still carries some of the Soyuz flights to this day. And, like pretty much every major achievement of the USSR, he wasn't Russian. He was, in fact, Ukrainian.)