Billionaires in Space
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@loki said in Billionaires in Space:
the species has an imperative to survive and getting off this planet in time is a prerequisite.
Why? So we can fuck up exactly the same way someplace else?
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Unity’s trip meant that, for a few minutes, there were a record 16 people in space, including its crew and those on board the International Space Station and China’s Tiangong capsule.
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@copper said in Billionaires in Space:
So we can get away from people with limited horizons.
Are there any other kinds of horizons?
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The Bezos boys are going up in about 20 minutes:
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The liberals are going nuts about how this money and fossil fuel could be wasted in times like this. I just about threw up.
Guess what, a massive amount of innovation is going on and space used to be awesome as long as NASA was running it.
But most importantly the species has an imperative to survive and getting off this planet in time is a prerequisite.
@loki said in Billionaires in Space:
The liberals are going nuts about how this money and fossil fuel could be wasted in times like this. I just about threw up.
Guess what, a massive amount of innovation is going on and space used to be awesome as long as NASA was running it.
But most importantly the species has an imperative to survive and getting off this planet in time is a prerequisite.
Yes, and they give no consideration to the $3B Branson has pledged to causes that address climate change, not to mention the other pretty huge sums he gives away.
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@loki said in Billionaires in Space:
The liberals are going nuts about how this money and fossil fuel could be wasted in times like this.
If the liberals and their friends would get real productive jobs instead of whining about everything, we would have enough money to send everyone into space.
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Massive knob launches into space.
Also, the rocket looks a bit like a penis.
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It's kind of fun watching people trying to justify this as anything other than a "billionaire's joyride."
For that kind of money,
you can@jon-nyc could probably buy a lot more fun for a long longer than 5 minutes.Oh, wait, I said "longer than 5 minutes."
Never mind.
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Sending billionaires into space could save humanity from dying out, however it might be cheaper if we just cooked and ate the motherfuckers.
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Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), who is spearheading the effort, said rich space dilettantes should have to pay taxes for those flights, and noted special concern about the environmental impact of sending people into space on trips with no “scientific value.”
"Space exploration isn’t a tax-free holiday for the wealthy. Just as normal Americans pay taxes when they buy airline tickets, billionaires who fly into space to produce nothing of scientific value should do the same, and then some,” Blumenauer said.
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Project Mercury cost about $86 million per flight
26 flights - including tests, 6 with people
$2.25 billion in today's dollars
For Tuesday's flight, an anonymous bidder won the bidding in June for a Bezos flight at $28 million
Much cheaper than Alan Sheppard's seat
