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If you want the experience, you can already get it through other means. I think this is all about dick waving. Rich people who want to boast they've been into

by points 16y ago

If you want the experience, you can already get it through other means. I think this is all about dick waving. Rich people who want to boast they've been into space.

hugh3 16y ago
Or just rich people who want to go to space. I'd want to go to space even if I could never tell anyone about it. (Though if I did ever go to space, my friends would probably get tired of me talking about it.) I imagine lots of people with $200K to burn feel exactly the same way.
- points 16y ago
  OK, why? I can't imagine it being very much more exciting that flying in a plane. Perhaps you'll get a nice view of the earth, but what else? edit: Yes, you could just downmod me, or you could explain why you're excited about being able to go into 'space'
  - hugh3 16y ago
    If you're not excited by the idea of going into space then nothing I can say can possibly communicate the excitement that the idea holds for me. Overanalyze everything and nothing is exciting... I'd also like to have sex with [insert this week's celebrity crush here] even though it's "just sticking one piece of meat inside another piece of meat". I will, however, say that every one of our ancestors for the past four billion years has been confined to a thin layer on the surface of a smallish and otherwise-undistinguished rock in a universe whose scale is... very big. To be one of the first thousand or so Earth-origin organisms to get away from the rock, even if it's just to float for a half an hour in the dark vacuum just outside, sounds pretty darn exciting to me. It ain't first-man-on-Mars stuff, but as far as expensive rich-person holidays go it's better than a week in Vegas.
    - points 16y ago
      Fair enough. I'd much rather go to vegas :/
  - robryan 16y ago
    The rocket burn to get you up that high isn't something you get in a plane.
stcredzero 16y ago
Who cares what it's about so long as it funds development of rocketplane technology?

by points 16y ago

If you want the experience, you can already get it through other means. I think this is all about dick waving. Rich people who want to boast they've been into space.

hugh3 16y ago

Or just rich people who want to go to space. I'd want to go to space even if I could never tell anyone about it. (Though if I did ever go to space, my friends would probably get tired of me talking about it.) I imagine lots of people with $200K to burn feel exactly the same way.

points 16y ago
OK, why? I can't imagine it being very much more exciting that flying in a plane. Perhaps you'll get a nice view of the earth, but what else? edit: Yes, you could just downmod me, or you could explain why you're excited about being able to go into 'space'
- hugh3 16y ago
  If you're not excited by the idea of going into space then nothing I can say can possibly communicate the excitement that the idea holds for me. Overanalyze everything and nothing is exciting... I'd also like to have sex with [insert this week's celebrity crush here] even though it's "just sticking one piece of meat inside another piece of meat". I will, however, say that every one of our ancestors for the past four billion years has been confined to a thin layer on the surface of a smallish and otherwise-undistinguished rock in a universe whose scale is... very big. To be one of the first thousand or so Earth-origin organisms to get away from the rock, even if it's just to float for a half an hour in the dark vacuum just outside, sounds pretty darn exciting to me. It ain't first-man-on-Mars stuff, but as far as expensive rich-person holidays go it's better than a week in Vegas.
  - points 16y ago
    Fair enough. I'd much rather go to vegas :/
- robryan 16y ago
  The rocket burn to get you up that high isn't something you get in a plane.

stcredzero 16y ago

Who cares what it's about so long as it funds development of rocketplane technology?