Space is the place
Space is the place
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re: Space Jollies:
The per person finances on a couple of actual, full orbits in a Starship would probably be similar, if not less, than Bezos' and Branson's toys here.
The Starships themselves would be cheaper to make and each could fit a good amount more people - perhaps a hundred - in a far larger volume of spaceship to play about in Zero-G.
THAT's where the big money in space tourism is, I think. if I were rich, I'd consider paying a couple of million to do actual orbits and see the entireity of the Earth pass beneath me whilst I sip SpaceG&T in zero G.
Going up to 100km and falling back to Earth again might've been cool a decade ago, but there are for more interesting possibilities just ahead of us. It just seems pointless to me now.
- This guy did it in 2001 for $20M
https://edition.cnn.…grafician - Also the idea is not to get into "space tourism" but in space mining!
A single smallish asteroid mined would make each of us a billionaire or trillionaire even!grafician - But overall, we're more aligned to the scenario from Elysium than anything else in the near future: https://www.imdb.com…grafician
- Anyway, going into "space" when we're already on a rock flying thru space is like going out for a cig out of an airplane...grafician
- This guy did it in 2001 for $20M