File talk:Xenu space plane.jpg

message: Just what I needed for a laugh this evening! :D
Such an "exact copy" of a modern terrestrial aeroplane would disintegrate in the atmosphere, killing everyone fairly quickly and leaving only a few shards of metal hurtling to the ground, if that. There's no creativity in this concoction, it just goes to show how bad a sci-fi writer L. Ron. Hubbard™ was. Also, they would have to be huge to carry the supposed "billions" of passengers, otherwise it would take a ridiculously long time!
Damnit, I'm going to start my own website dedicated to some form of "New Age Spiritualism Mixed With Hilarious Science Fiction". Lucky b******.
OMG THIS NEEDS TO BE FEATURED NOW! Superior1 08:43, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It would use thrust to travel through space (from rockets or something, I don't exactly know how planes work). Due to the inertia and the lack of force being applied on it (pretty much no gravity) it would basically fly in a straight line at an almost constant speed. Oh and IANAS of course. --WikiSlasher 14:01, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Planes use jet engines, which rely on an external supply of oxygen - something conspicuously lacking in space. Rockets take their oxygen with them in the form of liquid oxygen. But I suspect that Hubbard wasn't thinking of such mundane means of propulsion anyway. Here's what he says about these space planes (or "space wagons" as he calls them) in another lecture: "Now, science fiction writers following the cue of some chap, I've forgotten his name now, Einstein, Beinstein, something like that, who said that MC squared over C wouldn't go, man, and that the speed of light could not be excessive. And actually I was looking up some speed tables the other day, and a trillion light years per day is not full throttle on a space wagon." (ref. "The Helatrobus Implants", SHSBC-266, lecture of 21 May 1963). A trillion light years per day would be something like 40 billion light years per hour, which would require something with a lot more power than a rocket or jet engine... -- ChrisO 20:49, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Gravity is still around, and quite strong in space. You never 'fly in a straight line at an almost constant speed' unless your moving near light speed, and even then gravity still effects you. Nerull 23:20, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK then, a somewhat straight line at an almost constant speed. --WikiSlasher 10:05, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ah, yes... 

message: Original images:
*Thomas, Carla. DC-8 Airborne Laboratory in flight [1998]. NASA. Photo #EC98-44428-007. Link
*Heap, Sally et al. Starfield in the large magellanic cloud [1999]. Space Telescope Science Institute. NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team. Photo #PRC-99 44. Link
--24.57.157.81 (talk) 04:10, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference

message: Shouldn't this have a NASA tag since the plane has a NASA logo on it.
    * NASA logos (which include the current "meatball" logo, the old "worm" logo, and the seal) are copyrighted.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.87.172.6 (talk) 09:57, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I know it looks like a joke, but it isn't. --WikiSlasher (talk) 10:41, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  NASA logo on plane 

message: I think this picture is a joke. Seeing the othe comments seem to confirm this. Anyone wish to have an actual rendition? The thumbnail seemed okay; but the closer look, I saw the copy and paste job done. Was this serious of a joke designed to attack scientology? IF this was an attack it should be changed as a POV violation.
And for those attacking gravity, no air, etc...umm he admits there were different engines.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.21.209.188 (talk) 03:31, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I know it looks like a joke, but it isn't. --WikiSlasher (talk) 10:41, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: "The space planes were exact copies of Douglas DC-8s." Does this mean that Scientology and these, ancient aliens lacked so much an imagination that they had to steal from NASA a plane design? It honestly reminds me of a bad Sci-Fi, the "Espinol United Stars, or the Espinol United Moons, Planets, and Asteroids: This Quarter of the Universe is Ours" honestly sounds like an attempt at HHGTTG humor rather than serious mythos.--Kahn Iceay 21:36, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  hmm