SpaceX to send first space tourists around moon next year

[KingOrfeo]

Fuck, YEAH!

 

[Typo Fu Master]

Fuckers. I wanted to know the price tag.

I'm torn between wishing I could go and wondering if it'll crash and burn.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Fuckers. I wanted to know the price tag.

You know what they say, if you have to ask . . .

 

[Hard_Rom]

Might depend on how much you weigh. I read it is over 10k per pound to get something into orbit.

Who gives a fuck if it crashes and burns. Dems da chances ya take! YEEHA!

 

[Typo Fu Master]

You know what they say, if you have to ask . . .

Oh, I know it's too rich for my blood. But inquiring minds wanna know and all that. I'm speculating hundreds of thousands, if not millions per ticket.

 

[Shadout]

I'm hoping that the first couple of years are spent milking the super-duper rich folks while SpaceX cracks how to terraform Mars - then hopefully the price will come down for us normal folks!

 

[domroger]

Fuck that for a game of soldiers .
I don't like ordinary flight so there is no way to get me on that .

 

[Tryharder62]

The only excitement i see in that venture would be - to be weightless!

 

[La damnee elle la licorne]

 

[Jamiegeo]

Perhaps the Republican party had a whip around and
Booked their leader a once in a lifetime trip?
I wonder if (like the websites for plane flight) they ask you to select "oneway" or "Return"?

 

[KingOrfeo]

I'm hoping that the first couple of years are spent milking the super-duper rich folks while SpaceX cracks how to terraform Mars - then hopefully the price will come down for us normal folks!

I'm pinning my hopes on asteroid mining.

 

[phrodeau]

Maybe they'll offer a ticket as a lottery prize, or wrap one around a chocolate bar.

 

[pointless]

I'm hoping that the first couple of years are spent milking the super-duper rich folks while SpaceX cracks how to terraform Mars - then hopefully the price will come down for us normal folks!

we kinda already know how to terraform mars. it's just that it would take several thousand years to do it.

 

[KingOrfeo]

we kinda already know how to terraform mars. it's just that it would take several thousand years to do it.

And then what you get in the end is a planet-sized Antarctica.

 

[pointless]

pretty much and i doubt bilking billionaires out of their cash while wasting our natural resources is gonna solve that problem any time soon.

 

[JohnnySavage]

Without a Mag net o sphere, wouldn't any atmosphere you put on Mars just blow off into space

 

[JohnnySavage]

Database error...

 

[KingOrfeo]

Without a Mag net o sphere, wouldn't any atmosphere you put on Mars just blow off into space

Mars has no magnetic field? Well, anyway, it's gravity, not magnetism, that holds an atmosphere on a planet's surface.

 

[pointless]

Mars has no magnetic field? Well, anyway, it's gravity, not magnetism, that holds an atmosphere on a planet's surface.

yeah, but (and i am in no way an expert on this) i'm pretty sure the magnetosphere plays a fairly large part in keeping the atmosphere from being blown away by solar wind. how exactly that works i haven't but the vaguest of clues, but i know i've read it somewhere. it's supposedly why mars as much, much, much thinner atmosphere than earth.

or so i've read while bored at least a couple times.

 

[Hard_Rom]

No, Mars does not have a magnetic field. Might have to put any colonies under ground in the long term.

I doubt even self-sustaining colonies in space or other planets like Mars will relieve the Earth of it's population burden. Asteroid mining for metals will probably be the industry which gets us out into space.

Betting that solar energy on Mars is quite low.

We will need fusion power to be effective in colonizing space.

 

[KingOrfeo]

We will need fusion power to be effective in colonizing space.

Yeah, well, that's one of those things that's always 10 years away.

 

[pointless]

we could always try the moons of jupiter or maybe saturn, but then you have to solve that whole radiation problem.

 

[JohnnySavage]

we could always dry the moons of jupiter or maybe saturn, but then you have to solve that whole radiation problem.

But what about the fish?

 

[pointless]

well, that confused the hell out of me for a second, but fixed now. weird fucking typo.

 

[trysail]

As NPR (correctly) pointed out this morning, SpaceX has a history of being long on promises and short on actual results.


Now, if we could just get those motherfuckers to do some fact-checking on the claims of the dangerous anthropogenic global warming promoters.

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