Anybody want to leave the planet? No I'm serious.
I'm just going to leave this here...
http://www.virgingalactic.com/booking/
Private sector space flight, the wave of the future. Now we just need to establish colonies on other planets and I'd sign up for that
What do you think of this? If you had the money would you sign up for it? Discuss.
Official Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPJSlI4XXhE
http://www.virgingalactic.com/booking/
Private sector space flight, the wave of the future. Now we just need to establish colonies on other planets and I'd sign up for that
What do you think of this? If you had the money would you sign up for it? Discuss.
Official Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPJSlI4XXhE
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Having to come back again!
I'm actually scared of flying although I can't really say for sure cause I've never been on a plane. I'm scared to travel by air anyway. I know they say it's the safest way to travel but I'll take my chances on land anyday.
Buy DeSoto.
Paint job to Sam and Max DeSoto.
Gain envy of telltale member who went to space.
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Profit.
Money aside, the idea of being in space frightens me. I don't know if it's a form of claustrophobia or what, but I'm pretty scared of being reliant on man-made contraptions to breathe (same reason I've never been scuba diving, although I'll almost certainly try that eventually). Also, I've seen far too many space disasters in sci-fi movies/TV (not to mention the real-life blowups) for a trip into space to be relaxing.
Not quite true. You'd be able to see Earth in all its magnificent insignifigance... and that would be rather cool.
That's true, and I had thought of it, but having that as the only thing you can really see would get dull. As far as I'm concerned, it's just a ball. I'd much rather go into different countries and see the landscapes and architecture up close. That way I could see the real beauty of the Earth, and of those who inhabit it.
More thought will be required on this.
In space.... noone can hear your boredom...
I'd be a bit nervous, I guess, but I think I'd be more excited than nervous. I guess I'd feel safer if there had been commercial travels for decades just like for other things. But really, I'm freaked out every time I take a plane that it will crash and I'll die, and I don't see why it would be worse in space. The worst case scenario remains the same: we crash and I die. And apparently more people die in elevator crashes than plane crashes, or something.
I wouldn't be worried about depending on human-made things, because you do on the plane too (there isn't air to breathe outside either) and I've gone scuba diving, to take Puzzle's example. And I've been in trains that went under a sea or a mountain. All of these have big potentials for disasters. Same with rollercoasters...
In other words, I think the thrill of it would be greater than the fear about it, and it would make it worth it. But only if it was much, much cheaper or I was much, much richer. And still, probably not the second one, because there is so much I could invest money in that would be more worth it.
EDIT: also, if there IS an accident, there is a chance I'd end up on another planet as a God.
How do you know you're not all test subjects??? Plus they've gotten $200,000 off you as well to cover their asses if something goes wrong.
This space travel thing sounds like madness to me tho. I mean, this is the first commercial trip (whenever its gunna take place) to SPACE for Christ sake. Something is bound to go wrong. Someone will have a panic attack and do the lot of them in lol.
HERES a much better idea Virgin, wont don't you acquire funding to send all the worlds murderers etc into space????? I.e forever.
Not only do I not see how that's an amusing scenario, but it's also extremely unlikely. I've yet to find a single case, even in fiction, in which people were filled with a homicidal rage due to being in space. No similar effects have been noted in the first manned airplane flights, nor the first submarine excursions. The worst psychological effects come from prolonged isolation, which isn't a factor here as these are short, sub-orbital trips.
First of all, that's a horrifically inaccurate use of i.e.
Second of all, the big problem in post-judicial law enforcement is keeping costs DOWN. A $200,000 or so ticket is hardly economical.
Thirdly, as the Virgin Galactic isn't an orbital ship, the thing would just crash and explode. Whether or not you're against capital punishment, spending an assload of money to send criminals into space just so that they can die in a crash(taking two capable pilots with them) is hardly the most efficient means of execution.
Fourth, prison escapes aren't even that bad of a problem, on the whole. That is, they are not terribly common enough that "launch our problems into space at great cost to the taxpayer" is a "much better idea" than actually making a profit and creating high-level jobs for very skilled people and creating a new industry that adds value to the world.
Lol, awesome, 'Homicidal Rage', that would be a great title for a space travel movie of some kind hahahaha.
Well, I'm just saying, unforeseen things do happen.
Edit-I sure as hell would be quite friggin nervous going for a trip into space, I'd have to pop a few Valiums before i went and take a few lagers with me.
I'd be much more interested in some serious space travel, like going to the moon (not necessarily landing, just cruising around it or something would work just fine
However, the only way I'd spend such big sums on something like this would be if I was seriously rich, more money than I'd know what to do with.
If I was in a financial situation like that, where spending an amount like that would be something I would hardly feel... then most certainly, I'd sign up for space travel.
It does feel quite fascinating and would certainly be an extremely interesting and memorable experience
What? YOU have TROUBLE WITH THE IDEA OF GOING INTO SPACE?!
I...
WOW.
I never would have guessed!
This is a SHOCKER.
ERRRR........I dunno...let me see.....re-entering earths atmosphere for a start.... its fucking unnatural (yeh yeh so is bunjy jumping ETC BUT AT LEAST I know what would happen to me should thing go wrong (GRAVITY)....
There might be a hole in the craft causing my innards to be sucked out quicker than a Dyson vacuum cleaner.
You're making it sound like a breeze, this space travel malarkey.
Edit-actually would i get sucked out a hole in space...or would i implode, or....eeeeeeeeeeeeh. MEH.
But, I wouldn't want to spend two hundred grand on a simple up and back trip. I expect vacation to Mars for that amount of money.
Good point. Still, think of those rockets that failed and blew up/fell apart etc.
Edit-surely with smarter people involved the more dangerous it is/becomes?? I.e smarter minds create more powerful things.
You watch too much sci-fi B movies.
We know quite well the medical risks of going into space. The fact that you have deigned it unnecessary to research them does not mean they are not known to anyone else.
Considering it would take a long time for a Dyson vacuum cleaner to suck out your innards, that's hardly impressive. In fact, it would probably get stuck at some point, as it was mostly designed to remove dust and other small particles from rugs and carpets, and "human organs" simply aren't a normal house-cleaning concern.
No, I'm making it sound like a trip whose main dangers are accounted for by very intelligent people, leading to a death rate that makes going into space far safer on a per-person basis than other activities that are engaged in every day by normal people, such as "staying at home".
"If I fly in an airplane and it stalls, my brain will explode!"
See, I can make stuff up too.
If there was a hole in the craft and your body was exposed to the vacuum of space, your body would operate as normal. The problem is that when lungs operate normally, they expel gases and take them in. Lack of gas means they would just expel them. You would lose consciousness after about 10 seconds, the normal amount of time it takes blood to reach the brain. You would then die in a matter of about two minutes, unless a normal atmosphere was re-established before the point after which it became lethal. Of the 600+ people who have entered space, less than 10 have died from this.
actually the best idea is for you not to double post
The smarter the people involved are, the more likely they are to anticipate things that can go wrong and the less likely they are to make mistakes. However, like everything else, mistakes are possible. But mistakes are possible with every extreme activity. Regardless if you are bungee jumping and the bungee cord breaks or if you are in a spaceship that suddenly has a whole lot less air than it did previously, the end result is still the same. You die.
Actually, the space version would probably be more preferable as you would be unconscious for most of it.
Do you work for Myth Busters? Doesn't matter what you try and prove, its gunna be dangerous as hell, going into space. Why do you think it costs so much money? Everything in place, every precaution.
I'm thinking re-entering earths atmosphere is more dangerous than the take off into space now.
There is no such thing as watching too many sci-fi B movies.
Let's be a bit generous and say 600 people have gone into space. 18 people have died during space missions. In all, that is a 3% death rate. This puts it behind MANY causes of death per person, including things within the home such as Carbon Monoxide poisoning or things considered relatively safe like riding bicycles.
See, there are certain activities that people see as "especially dangerous". These include things like skydiving and suba, as these activities have a high cost of failure. The thing is that, due to those, the precautions made, deaths by skydiving are less than those by skiing or being struck by lightning.
Making shit up and then saying "No matter what FACTS you bring to the table, WHAT I SAY IS RIGHT" only makes you come off as ignorant and arrogant about being ignorant. I can say "KEVIN BACON WAS *NOT* IN FOOTLOOSE, AND NO MATTER WHAT YOU TRY AND PROVE, HE WAS NOT EVER INVOLVED IN THAT PRODUCTION", but it comes off as ridiculous to anyone else who takes even a cursory glance at actual facts.
Take off has taken seven people. Re-entry has killed 7 people. 3 died while in space due to decompression. 1 died in a crash after re-entry. Unless you count the crash after re-entry, they're exactly equally dangerous. If you do count it, the greater danger based on previous deaths is statistically insignificant.
So you don't beleive its dangerous???? thats all I'm asking. You're telling me you would have absolutely no worries going into space yeh?
Have you actually checked out the spaceship that people are paying $200,000 to travel in?
What about if things do go wrong? What then? all i read on that website was hey do you wanna fly to space? Then give us a $20,000 deposit.
Edit-I'm gunna laugh if you go on the trip and you run into trouble on board.