[octoberasian]

... it doesn't look like you'll be getting zero-gravity "pr0n" now.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26991760/

"Virgin Galactic says it has been offered $1 million to allow the filming of a sex-in-space movie — and turned the offer down."

Good!

>.>

At least Virgin Galactic did a smart move and turned them down.

[Tetsuma]

o.O Woah, that's kinda weird lol.. why film a movie in zero gravity in order to film a sex scene? >.>;;

[Cruzandercerberus]

I wonder if they had problems finding people to take on the monumental challenge of being the first people to be filmed bumping uglies in space.


I imagine not.

[Vigilous]

I think it's more like they couldn't wrap their minds around how to keep the money shot scene from going horribly, horribly wrong.

[Kay]

$1 million seems like a pretty low offer.

[Geothermal]

I'd of let them do it for free.

Think about the irony of the worlds first real space porn on a ship titled "Virgin", it was meant to be.

[Villainous]

Sex Pistols good, sex in space bad?
Sir Branson must be mellowing out in his old age.. I'd think this was right up his alley.

[Ture]

from what I have read there are physical limitations that are almost impossible to overcome in order to have sex in space.

[Seigrith]

I'd of let them do it for free.

Wow, I didn't think people still made the mistake of saying "of" where they should be saying "have".

Maybe I overestimate humanity a little too much.

[Geothermal]

Because of a grammar error? One that still is common I might add, since I've seen it so much I believed it to be the correct form. Not to mention the still ever prevalent u for you, lack of capitalizing any word, Or Inversely, Capitalizing The First Letter Of Every Word, or forgetting that punctuation exists and rambling very similar to this so that it really has no end in sight because mr comma period and semi colon are on vacation, apparently those are absolved, but erroneously using of in place of have? Travesty against the English language, I now see the error of my ways. I know you're going for the wise ass, cynical savant bit, and it's comedic gold, don't get me wrong, but seriously, you've got to pick your fights. Perhaps if I tried to dote my posts around like they were gifts from the linguistic God it'd be free game to call me out on something like that, but it was an average mistake from an average person, please get over yourself.

Or this was just trollbait and the hook got me perfectly, that Grammar Nazi shit pisses me off when it's over something so petty.

[Seigrith]

Grammar Nazis are weak; I tend to think of myself as somebody more along the lines of the Doctor Doom of grammar. No error is too petty or beneath my correcting glare.

[firefeng]

Doctor Doom of grammar.

Capitalize "grammar" if you're going to make it part of your title.

At least Virgin Galactic did a smart move and turned them down.

I couldn't agree more, but I'm one of those scary people that think that lofty endeavors like space travel should not ever be turned into masturbatory media dross for the droves of apathetic irony-whores that would eat it up (swallow?) and ask for seconds. One of these days I'm sure I'll burn that out of my system, but not yet.

[Seigrith]

Capitalize "grammar" if you're going to make it part of your title.

Don't you think I would have capitalized the word "grammar" if I had intended for it to be part of a title?

[pathwriter]

It amazes me how well religion has trained people to reject the hormonal urge that is hard-coded into our DNA. Humans exist to fuck and almost every achievement is either going to be for the sake of furthering that cause or providing a new way of accomplishing it. No doubt most people have seen the Futurama episode that remarks that all forms of human achievement were for the sake of attracting the opposite sex (and sometimes the same one) and chuckled as though to convince themselves that it is untrue.

[firefeng]

I was unaware you meant the literal Doctor Doom, shooting death-beams and laying cunning, violent traps for every faux pas of Grammar Most High, and instead thought you were aiming for a more metaphorical meaning connoting a harshness of manner as it applies only to grammar, which would necessitate appropriate titling of "grammar" to make the distinction.

That being said, I want to see some fucking death-beams owning words and/or illiterate people, now.

It amazes me how well religion has trained people to reject the hormonal urge that is hard-coded into our DNA.

I like to fuck, but I also like to think that doing things solely for the sake of fucking alone is a depressing, empty way of living. That being said--and I'm all too aware of how...illogical...that may read--I've got little problems with people fucking in space and every problem with people doing it to further feed the ever-hungry beast of mankind's self-perpetuating habit of life-by-proxy. Put another way, why should people get to watch porn stars fuck in space when they should show some motherfucking initiative and drag themselves and their 380-lb. cunt-queen sex-slug into orbit and do it themselves?

Holy shit, I use too many hyphens.

[Varizen]

They'd have to add a few new pages to the Kama Sutra.

[Phlow]

I like to fuck, but I also like to think that doing things solely for the sake of fucking alone is a depressing, empty way of living. That being said--and I'm all too aware of how...illogical...that may read--I've got little problems with people fucking in space and every problem with people doing it to further feed the ever-hungry beast of mankind's self-perpetuating habit of life-by-proxy. Put another way, why should people get to watch porn stars fuck in space when they should show some motherfucking initiative and drag themselves and their 380-lb. cunt-queen sex-slug into orbit and do it themselves?

I was about to say something in reference to Path's comment, but Firefeng took the words out of my mouth.

Not that I'm defending religion as a whole or their actions, but certain things were done BY religion for a purpose. Eating pig products was especially dangerous back in the day before perservatives and refridgerators. As a result, the Hebrew religion declared the meat unclean. Many religions bury or burn their dead for sanitary purposes.

Dragging religion into an argument about why a comercial space travel company denied a porn studio flight for the purpose of sex seems less like a valid point and more like a personal vendetta. If anything, society is a closer proxy as I'm sure Virgen cares more about being known as the Space Fuck company rather than how Rabbi Steine or Father Murphy views this.

[Doodlebug]

This is hot keep going

[pathwriter]

Dragging religion into an argument about why a comercial space travel company denied a porn studio flight for the purpose of sex seems less like a valid point and more like a personal vendetta. If anything, society is a closer proxy as I'm sure Virgen cares more about being known as the Space Fuck company rather than how Rabbi Steine or Father Murphy views this.

I'm not pulling in religion as a red herring. Every single Western religion, which can accurately be said to have a shaping hand in our cultural identity, has prohibitions about when and how a person should fuck. The Jews are particularly bad in that they literally have written down that it's to be done with the lights out, under the covers, missionary position (the former two so that an insecure person doesn't become ashamed on seeing his/her naked body while fucking -- talk about neurotic!). I'm not saying that Rabbi Schmekel stuck his dick into Virgin's affairs and said "Nuh-uh, can't be having with that," I'm saying that they fundamentally installed a guilt trip into our cultural identity that says sex is bad. It's just as bad as the fashion industry having latched onto the notion that fat is bad and, thus, shunning about 99% of the first world's population because their genes are hard-wired to store calories against a coming famine.

As for Virgin not wanting to be known as the Space Fuck company... you're aware that it's VIRGIN, right? The name was deliberately chosen to be ironic by a woman who has made a 30-year career of capitalizing on sex. If you're going to argue, at least check your premises. The reason Virgin probably turned them down was so they could use one of their own satellite companies to capitalize on interstellar fucking.

Anyhow, the majority of my response was to the people in this thread saying "Good for them." As I intimated, I'm sure Virgin has very bottom-line reasons for rejecting the offer, but those who support it will be approaching from a very different angle.

[Norelle]

Haha KI derails so quickly.
They've all the elements already in this post
Such angry people :3