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OT: Price to fly into space with Virgin
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Cheap cheap... There're only that many mansions you can buy, luxury cars you can drive and days in the sea you can tolerate staying in your multi-million dollar yatch.
And if this is your childhood dream, you will save every penny or sell everything you had, even if you are making $15 an hour. It's up to the individual to determine what it's worth.
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Many friends think that I am utterly crazy with what I spend on custom bicycles.
They tell me bicycles can be purchased at Wal-Mart or Target for $129.99. It is a free country. We are allowed to spend discretionary money as we see fit. |
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I loved Elysium, the movie. Neill Blomkamp is a great director. Still waiting for the sequel to District 9. Anyway, I'm reminded of that social structure in the movie with the ultra rich living a wonderful existence in space while the rest of humanity is scraping by on Earth. You know, happy, giddy billionaires sharing fine champagne after their thrill rides, and actually telling the rest of us that it's an advancement that will improve all our lives, so, stop complaining.
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But for a slight positive view, moving to space (even if just for the elite) is the only way the human could survive as a species.
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It's not that bad if you consider the new Star Wars hotel at Disney is $6000 for a family of 4. It's $750 a person a night!!
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Gilded Age 2000 is upon us!
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The Vomit Comet would be cheaper and you'd get more weightless time.
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You just wait till that first one explodes and crashes back to earth in a fiery ball. I doubt many tickets will be sold after that.
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https://www.space.com/30073-virgin-g...lot-error.html |
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Yup. The Challenger incident significantly changed the public's attitude toward what was, at that point, an almost boring, recurring event. Extra points if it takes out innocents on the ground.
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In the mid-80s, one of the aerospace students told me that his fear of space travel was rapid decompression. In retrospect, that's somewhat less likely than a landing problem. And recently, spacex had a "successful landing" but the vehicle burned rapidly before it would have been possible for any occupants to disembark.
I'm waiting for space elevators, but it would be a bummer to get stuck between floors. |
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I know this is headed for class warfare, but I think the billionaire space club is a good thing for society. All technology is expensive when it begins, but competition brings prices down. This isn't about the middle-class folks getting a ride to space, this is about bringing that technology to earth. I'm using internet that I get via Starlink, based on satellites launched into space SpaceX.
About six months ago I was contacted about a maintenance manager job at the Virgin Aerospace spaceport at Mohave, CA. If I were a younger man willing to work those long hours, it would be a great opportunity. |
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