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Ceffer
2024 May 15, 10:48pm
Ceffer
2024 May 15, 10:48pm
I think if you go out every night and expose your anus to the stars and the skies for an hour or so, you will be abducted sooner or later, get your space ride, and be ahead all those hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars. Aliens can't resist. However, don't do this in a public place.
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Tenpoundbass
2024 May 16, 5:44am
Tenpoundbass
2024 May 16, 5:44am
A 15 minute rocket ride, is not a trip into space. It's nothing more than a glorified trip in a tethered hot air balloon, that goes up then right back down.
A proper space trip, would require at least one orbit around earth. You're not in space until you've made an orbit around the planet. Otherwise you're just very high.
I wonder what will be in the gift shop at those amusement rides?
A proper space trip, would require at least one orbit around earth. You're not in space until you've made an orbit around the planet. Otherwise you're just very high.
I wonder what will be in the gift shop at those amusement rides?
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WookieMan
2024 May 16, 6:08am
WookieMan
2024 May 16, 6:08am
I don't get the "space" travel experience thing. Obviously to make money off of it. But what's so appealing? To look at the piece of shit we live on? Not sure I want to pay millions to see that from afar. I get to witness it on the ground and on the internet.
I get exploration, but space tourism is AIDS. There's no point in getting it or doing it. Land on Mars, colonize and extract resources, fine. Go on a 7 day cruise and imagine what a 9 months trip to Mars would be like with tourist. I'd bet half would be dead. You'd run out of booze for sure if the rocket can carry that much.
I get exploration, but space tourism is AIDS. There's no point in getting it or doing it. Land on Mars, colonize and extract resources, fine. Go on a 7 day cruise and imagine what a 9 months trip to Mars would be like with tourist. I'd bet half would be dead. You'd run out of booze for sure if the rocket can carry that much.
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Robert Sproul
2024 May 16, 7:15am
I have zero interest but I won't argue if you want to go, Major Tom.
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komputodo
2024 May 16, 8:52am
komputodo
2024 May 16, 8:52am
Ceffer says
unless it's downtown SF
I think if you go out every night and expose your anus to the stars and the skies for an hour or so, you will be abducted sooner or later, get your space ride, and be ahead all those hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars. Aliens can't resist. However, don't do this in a public place.
unless it's downtown SF
Like many other bright and special people, she decided to reinvent herself. She started the podcast Ellie in Space. She staked out a market niche. She wanted to humanize spaceflight. She tried to make it understandable to the regular watcher like me. She has prospered. She is now close to 100,000 subscribers. Ellie talked about normal people like us hitching a ride into space last night. She drew an analogy between the early days of commercial aviation in the 1930s. Long ago, you would fly around in an unpressurized, unheated aircraft like a DC-3. If you wanted to fly roundtrip from New York to Los Angeles, the round-trip ticket was $275. In those days this was almost half the price of a new Ford or Chevrolet. Here is a link to her podcast, I urge you to watch it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NYHOJqGKB8
As of today, you have four options if you want to take a ride into space as follows:
Virgin Galactic: 15-minute suborbital flight is a space plane: $450,000 per seat.
Blue Origin: 15-minute suborbital flight in a space capsule: Up to $30 million per seat.
Space-X: Orbital flight that could take you to the I.S.S.: $55 million per seat.
Russia Soyuz capsule orbital flight to I.S.S.: $90 million per seat.
If you are more adventurous and want to take a manned flight around the moon, Space-X has such a flight on offer for a reported $150 million per seat on a Space-X Dragon capsule that I presume will be launched by a Falcon Heavy. Some people have already signed up for this flight and paid a huge deposit. Elon Musk declines to disclose the names of these civilian astronauts with "deep pockets." One Japanese billionaire is rumored to be on this flight.
As soon as the Starship is operational, a special version of the second stage will be configured to carry 100 colonists on a one-way trip to Mars. I have seen some plans for this spacecraft. Each colonist will have their own state room and a lot of creature comforts that most prior astronauts could only dream of. Elon has said that a ticket on this ship will cost you $500,000. Elon says that one can sell their house and buy a seat on this spacecraft. If I was 40 years younger, I would "Go for it!"