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Virgin Galactic Turns Down $US1 Million Offer to Make First Porn in Space
Posted by Adam Frucci at 4:15 AM on October 4, 2008
I've got some good news for those of you who hold the seriousness of space exploration dear, and bad news for those of you who like to watch videos of two people doin' it: someone wanted to make a porn in space, and Virgin Galactic said no.
Apparently, a company offered VG a cool million for the opportunity to shoot the world's first space porn. That's more than the $US200,000 they're charging per person for a flight, but it's unclear how the deal would have worked. Is that a million for the two actors, the director and the cameraperson? If so, that's not a very generous offer. If it's a million on top of four tickets, well, that's a bit more generous.
But still, I can't help feeling like that's a pretty low offer. Come on, Hefner. You can swing more than that, can't you? In the name of science? I'm sure Virgin Galactic is a dignified company and everything, but everyone has their price. Let's make this happen. [The Inquirer]
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I Think We're Property
Posted 4:53 AM 4/10/08
It would probably either be really cool or a huge clusterf**k (and not in a good way). I could just see it now- actors bouncing off walls as they shift their weight and momentum around, fluids and lubricants flying everywhere... Free Fall Fornication will probably end up taking so much practice that it will end up practically being a science in and of itself.
I Think We're Property
Zkdog
Posted 4:50 AM 4/10/08
Anyone actually think about the physics behind it? You would have to be strapped in to something to avoid each thru....erm...movement pushing whoever else away. Even though that would be kinda funny to watch.
WAIT COME BACK!!!!
Zkdog
SgtToastie
Posted 4:49 AM 4/10/08
"I think he's attempting re-entry."
~Thank you Moonraker.
SgtToastie
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 4:48 AM 4/10/08
Maybe they can do a remake of Flesh Gordon...
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
takashimiike 7
Posted 4:45 AM 4/10/08
I don't know why, but for some reason I keep thinking about Austin Powers.
takashimiike 7
purple-pillows
Posted 4:44 AM 4/10/08
maybe they dont want to tarnish the company name... but i love space and have always wondered about doing it in zero g... i want to see or experience how that works.
purple-pillows
Bluesk1d
Posted 4:44 AM 4/10/08
@jhcovert:
There's hope for America yet...
Bluesk1d
marc_wtih_a_c
Posted 4:37 AM 4/10/08
@Fountain: What no exploring Uranus?
marc_wtih_a_c
Pretolo
Posted 4:37 AM 4/10/08
I'm sure they're already doing it up there. And they have cameras.
Pretolo
discounteggroll
Posted 4:35 AM 4/10/08
my lifelong dream of being the first male featured in outer space smut lives for another day
discounteggroll
Thanassi44
Posted 4:35 AM 4/10/08
HAHA Peter North. He bangs the hottest *itches
Thanassi44
trendspotter
Posted 4:34 AM 4/10/08
Yeah, I wouldn't want to pay $200,000 for a seat that may have been all sex'd up. I can pay $20 for a trip on Greyhound if I wanted that.
trendspotter
LordObento
Posted 4:32 AM 4/10/08
Movie name: Virgin Galactic and the Trip to Uranus
and Virgin Galactic II Return to the Blackhole
LordObento
EasyGT
Posted 4:32 AM 4/10/08
wouldn't this tie in with the research needed for the trip to mars? just add some cheesy music and bad acting and you can kill two birds with one stone!
EasyGT
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Posted 4:31 AM 4/10/08
I think he's looking down at GLORY HAL now....
"I can't let you do that Dave"
Jrsy is the dude, playing the dude, disguised as another dude
Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
Posted 4:30 AM 4/10/08
@Fountain: Somehow, the Snorg Tees girl makes this all the funnier.
Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
Fountain
Posted 4:28 AM 4/10/08
Off the top of my head:
Houston, We Have a Porno
Tossed in Space
Star Whores
The Chronicles of BigDi*k
*uck Rodgers
Hole-aris
and
2001: A Space Tranny
You're Welcome
Fountain
Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
Posted 4:26 AM 4/10/08
@jamesdenver: I think you just answered your own question. Although, there is a market for that too.....I'm afraid.
Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
jhcovert
Posted 4:25 AM 4/10/08
@Unknown2U: Peter North is still alive and still delivering the goods by the tablespoon!
jhcovert
Earthslide
Posted 4:25 AM 4/10/08
I'm sure if we all donate some money it'll happen.
Earthslide
jamesdenver
Posted 4:24 AM 4/10/08
Why not just take a ride in the vomit comet?
jamesdenver
Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
Posted 4:21 AM 4/10/08
Doesn't matter. It will happen. When there's such a strong market for something like this, and billions of dollars riding in the industry in total, there's no way it'll never happen. In space, no one can hear you cream......yet.
Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E
ripfire
Posted 4:20 AM 4/10/08
@marc_wtih_a_c: Maybe that's why they turned it down because they're afraid it'll just all over the instruments.
ripfire
Unknown2U
Posted 4:19 AM 4/10/08
Peter North! We miss you buddy!
Unknown2U
marc_wtih_a_c
Posted 4:19 AM 4/10/08
Money shot in zero G! This is what technology and space exploration is all about.
marc_wtih_a_c
closhedbb
Posted 5:20 AM 4/10/08
@jamesdenver: I do believe Girls Gone Wild has actually done that. Ummm... so I hear...
closhedbb
Curves
Posted 5:18 AM 4/10/08
I think it would be a major disappointment for you guys, breasts wont bounce in zero gravity.
Curves
Kareem King
Posted 5:17 AM 4/10/08
"Careful, you'll clog the instruments!"
Kareem King
Parapraxis
Posted 5:08 AM 4/10/08
@jhcovert:
more like the goddamned gallon...
Parapraxis
EVEs_Mako
Posted 5:07 AM 4/10/08
Would you want to be in the plane with someone's juice flying around in zero gravity? Pass...and what about the cost of clean up?
EVEs_Mako
UncleArgyll
Posted 5:05 AM 4/10/08
@Fountain: You forgot:
From the Poon and Back
The White Stuff
Deep Impact (no Change neeeded)
Gross Encounters
Logans Buns
Man in the Poon
Sergeant Goodhead
Space Pimps (CGI porn)
The Anal Explorers
UncleArgyll
AzaleaBrutus
Posted 5:03 AM 4/10/08
Guys guys... They obviously didn't want to lose their virgin space craft deflowered.
AzaleaBrutus
UniComp
Posted 5:00 AM 4/10/08
You guys passed up a great opportunity to put Ron Jeremy in space
UniComp
gloveofpower
Posted 5:00 AM 4/10/08
LOL. "let's make this happen" IS damn fuckin right!!!
gloveofpower
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 5:45 AM 4/10/08
Is that Tim Allen from Home Improvement? He's been working out.
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
closhedbb
Posted 5:44 AM 4/10/08
@Curves: I think it would be interesting to see the chest of some lady who is RAISED in zero-g...
closhedbb
snakepliskin
Posted 5:43 AM 4/10/08
I think there was a film where they shot it in zero g on the vomit comet. I never actually saw the film i just saw them talking about it on a porn channel once.
snakepliskin
badhatharry
Posted 5:39 AM 4/10/08
@UncleArgyll: No mention of Spaceballs?
badhatharry
Sanfam
Posted 5:34 AM 4/10/08
@Curves: They certainly would bounce. All that kinetic energy imparted into a lovely lady's body from so much zero-g thrusting must exit somewhere!
Sanfam
Sanfam
Posted 5:33 AM 4/10/08
@jamesdenver: It has actually been done. Earlier in my college days, a few friends had wondered if any such thing existed. Turns out a german production made just that and used the Vomit Comet for their, uh, closing moments.
The name? "Uranus Experiment."
Very original, of course.
Sanfam
LiuHaoZhong
Posted 5:25 AM 4/10/08
@Curves: Yeah, but they wouldn't sag either...
LiuHaoZhong
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
Posted 6:10 AM 4/10/08
@snakepliskin: The Uranus Experiment: Part 2
Git Em SteveDave loves this guy-->
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 6:02 AM 4/10/08
@xzenkx: Wrong Peter North?
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Numerous
Posted 6:01 AM 4/10/08
Vomit Comet is a nickname for any airplane that briefly provides a nearly weightless environment in which to train astronauts, conduct research, and film motion pictures.
Thanks Wikipedia!
Numerous
xzenkx
Posted 5:59 AM 4/10/08
why the heck did you post a picture of Peter North. Porn should be with _attractive_ people!
xzenkx
CoffeyWasHere
Posted 5:54 AM 4/10/08
@Unknown2U: Yeah he is totally alive and banging away at whosoever gets in within loadshot...which is a lot of people. Ever seen his work with Cytheria? Can you imagine The King of Cumshots and the Queen of Quimshots...in Space!
CoffeyWasHere
Dancing Milkcarton
Posted 6:39 AM 4/10/08
In all the years I've been visiting Gizmodo, that photo has the potential to haunt me the most.
Dancing Milkcarton
Gmo 4x4
Posted 6:32 AM 4/10/08
NICE... Where do i send my donation?
Gmo 4x4
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
Posted 6:31 AM 4/10/08
@EricAlder: Who's Pete?
shamoononon has a hebetudinous dog
EricAlder
Posted 6:17 AM 4/10/08
If old Petey let one loose in space it might blot out the sun!
(According to Ron Jeremy, Pete's what they refer to in the business as a 'painter' - Eww!)
EricAlder
bpapa9013
Posted 7:06 AM 4/10/08
@Zkdog: Yeah but no one would have to hold themselves up in any fashion so both would be able to focus on just clinging to one another to avert... well, "detachment". Although I be the gyrations could cause the duo to develop a significant rotational velocity if the frequency of linear motion was harmonic...
bpapa9013
bpapa9013
Posted 7:03 AM 4/10/08
@trendspotter: But what would you pay for a trip into space with an uber-hottie who wanted to be a mamber of the "60 mile high club"?
bpapa9013
bpapa9013
Posted 6:58 AM 4/10/08
@Fountain: Uh...
Debbie Does Daphnis (look it up)
It came from cooter-space
Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy (no change needed)
Zero G Juggs (Futurama Reference)
Attack of the 40ft moneyshot
Final Fantasy 69 (sure, y-not?)
Close Encounters of the Lewd Kind (sorry to re-hash)
Pigs in Space (BBW)
Starship Troopers 2 (unedited co-ed shower could have nearly gotten it to soft-core status in the first one)
Zero G Surprise Butsecks (Gay, cuz that meme is ALWAYS funny I don't care what you say)
Event Horizon 2: Satan Loves Bondage
AVP3: Love hurts!
man I could go on all day...
bpapa9013
bpapa9013
Posted 6:47 AM 4/10/08
@Sanfam: I was just wonderin this (and posted the Q in an earlier convo.
Question answered!
bpapa9013
bpapa9013
Posted 6:45 AM 4/10/08
@marc_wtih_a_c: My first thought was 0G booby jigglin' but the 0G moneyshot sounds intriguing as well.
Didn't girls gone wild do some naked 0G on the vomit comet already?
bpapa9013
VakeroRokero
Posted 7:31 AM 4/10/08
@CoffeyWasHere: Thank god everything burns down entering the atmosphere, I would want a squirt falling on my hair...
VakeroRokero
bpapa9013
Posted 7:21 AM 4/10/08
@gloveofpower: This should have already happened YESTERDAY!
bpapa9013
mohinderific
Posted 7:20 AM 4/10/08
Geeze guys, get with it... This has already been done.... Does nobody remember Emmanuelle in Space?
mohinderific
Kaisum
Posted 7:14 AM 4/10/08
Finally Arma-get-it-on can become so much more real.
I'm all for this.
But I won't pay any money.
You should never pay for porn, especially on the internet.
Kaisum
Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass
Posted 7:42 AM 4/10/08
SPACEBALLS! there DONE, print it.
ok. Bye, it's BEER:30
Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass
Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass
Posted 7:42 AM 4/10/08
Not to mention, anyone with outer orbit Space training or trained to even go up into orbit would stoop to these levels, only to have their experience or careers ruined all because of a 5 minute movie they did in space "back in the day"
Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass
Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass
Posted 7:40 AM 4/10/08
Did you REALLY have to post this Giz? Seriously...must be a slow Friday.
Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass
Large
Posted 7:39 AM 4/10/08
They could even attempt spacedocking
Large
kanon
Posted 7:38 AM 4/10/08
@Fountain: Isaac Asimov's "Sex In Space" short.
kanon
mikedudeRx
Posted 8:16 AM 4/10/08
And to think I would've expected Gizmodo to use a picture of a FEMALE porn star. But no, they give us Peter North.
mikedudeRx
aec007
Posted 8:30 AM 4/10/08
Come on!, nobody thought of
*UCK ROGERS ?
aec007
whiteknight
Posted 9:32 AM 4/10/08
Wow, if they had actually negotiated for a better price and done it, it might have been a big deal and given them some much-needed capital. However, I can totally understand why a company called "Virgin Galactic" wouldn't have their name soiled by such a feat as one of the first things private "clients" did in space. I'd give it a few years and a different company. It'll happen just as many commenters have already said.
whiteknight
Mikael
Posted 11:52 AM 4/10/08
@Fountain: @bpapa9013:
You guys deserve a cookie (and a star from the gizmodo people). Dont think Ive laughed so hard all week.
Mikael
gamecrazychris
Posted 12:29 PM 4/10/08
I would donate $20 to help make this happen.
gamecrazychris
hanswurst0815
Posted 9:20 PM 4/10/08
Bunny LaToya and Karl Hungus in: SPACEJAMMIN'.
hanswurst0815
tallboy
Posted 10:42 PM 4/10/08
am i the only one to get the gundam wing reference?
tallboy
FionaJobnick
Posted 1:28 AM 5/10/08
@Some_F-in-ShiT_Ass: its not the astronauts we have to worry about, when airplanes first become a big hit, was there a mile high club? or did some horny couple wonder how big the bathroom was! it will happen in space, just not at the birth of space tourism, wait lintel 1,000$ tickets are available, then you will see the TRUE 60 mile high club. lol. but the first porn wont be shot intel they have a stationary orbit, filming a movie does take time, and money to get all those people up, why bother with a 10 min shot, when you can have a 2 hr movie.
FionaJobnick
pevans34
Posted 3:15 AM 5/10/08
that would be a very quiet porno.
would they all have headsets to moan into?
pevans34
vgeroh
Posted 9:34 AM 5/10/08
@Thanassi44:
Is he still alive? He was doing Gay Pron as Matt Ramsey in the early 80s and quite convincing too
vgeroh
Weirdguy
Posted 2:11 PM 5/10/08
Maybe no one told them that is is impossible to get it up in space? There is not enough blood flow to the lower body.
That would make it quite interesting indeed.
Weirdguy
Jkoenig96
Posted 4:55 AM 4/10/08
@Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E: I think its been done, but I guess it just isn't the same.
Jkoenig96
Jkoenig96
Posted 4:51 AM 4/10/08
@Kaiser-Machead's LEGO WALL-E: This was brought up on Slashdot and some people were claiming that NASA had done some "off the books" research and found that sex in space was nearly impossible due to issues with natural bloodflow without gravity to help pull the blood to the lower body, so it might be a while yet.
Jkoenig96
EricAlder
Posted 5:10 AM 7/10/08
(In)Famous porn star Peter North, the guy in the picture.
EricAlder
FiveLiters
Posted 9:37 AM 7/10/08
@bpapa9013: AVP3-Anus Vs. Penis? lol,I bet that kind of love hurts!
FiveLiters
FiveLiters
Posted 9:35 AM 7/10/08
@marc_wtih_a_c: Journey To The Center of Uranus
FiveLiters