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The first commercial astronaut mission to orbit Earth aboard Dragon
- Ancalagon 6y agowell if that isn't the fastest $50 i've ever donated...what a great idea :)
- minton 6y agoIt is a great idea and supporting a good cause! However, does it sound like you have to open a store with them to be eligible?
- ceejayoz 6y agoNo, that's one of several options to earn entries. You can just donate to St. Jude.
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- debbiedowner 6y agoWhere do you see that? The rules https://www.inspiration4.com/rules https://www.inspiration4.com/rules Say: Rules Shift4Shop Inspiration4 Contest Official Rules Shift4Shop Inspiration4 Contest ("Contest") starts on February 1, 2021 at 4:00PM Eastern Time (“ET”) and ends on February 28, 2021 at 11:59 PM ET ("Contest Period"). ELIGIBILITY: The Sponsor of this Contest is Inspiration4, LLC (“Sponsor”) a wholly owned subsidiary of Shift4 Payments, LLC (“Shift4”). Contest is open to businesses who are legally domiciled in the United States that are current Shift4 e-commerce hosting and merchant acquiring customers of Shift4 or that are eligible to become customers of Shift4 (“Merchant”). If the Merchant is not a current customer of Shift4, in order to be eligible such Merchant must sign-up for Shift4 e-commerce hosting and merchant acquiring services prior to entry and maintain its status as a customer through the end of the Contest. Sponsor and Shift4 reserve the right to allow certain prospective customers to be eligible for the Contest if the prospective customer makes a substantial effort to complete the sign-up process for Shift4 e-commerce hosting and merchant acquiring during the Contest Period; provided, however, that Sponsor shall notify such prospective customer in writing of their eligibility and prospective customer meets all other requirements of entry as set forth herein. The individual who enters on behalf of the Merchant must be a designated representative employed by the Merchant who is also a U.S. Person as defined under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) 22 C.F.R § 120.15, and 18 years of age or older and will take the space flight if Merchant is determined to be the winner (“Designated Representative”). Designated Representative must be physically and psychologically fit for training and spaceflight, and must meet the requirements to be admitted into related government facilities. Note: Merchants with a main source of revenue that is the sale of marijuana, online pharmacies, or any otherproducts or services which in Sponsor’s reasonable discretion be viewed in a negative light are not eligible. Void where prohibited by law. Contest is subject to all applicable federal, state and local laws. By participating, each Designated Representative, on behalf of the Merchant, agrees to abide by these Official Rules and agrees that Article VII of the Merchant Processing Agreement Terms and Conditions apply to any dispute between Merchant and Sponsor relating to Merchant’s participation in the Contest, available at www.shift4.com/terms. Article VII REQUIRES ALL DISPUTES TO BE RESOLVED IN BINDING INDIVIDUAL ARBITRATION—NOT IN A CLASS ACTION, AND NOT IN COURT BEFORE A JUDGE OR JURY. HOW TO ENTER: During the Contest Period, to enter: Utilize the e-commerce tools at Shift4Shop to build your business website, offer products and services for online purchase, and go-live with your store so that third parties can purchase goods and services on the website (unless otherwise provided an exception by Sponsor); Create a video of no more than 140 seconds that tells us your inspirational entrepreneurial story and why your business should be elevated to the stars (“Video”), then post the Video on Twitter including the URL to your Shift4Shop online store and tag #inspiration4contest (“Entry”). Entry should include no individuals other than Merchant’s Designated Representative and Merchant’s employees. Video cannot include music. If another individual records the Video for you or is recognizable in the Video, you must obtain his/her permission to submit the Video and grant the rights set forth herein. Complete the entry form sent to the email address used to sign-up for your Shift4Shop account to verify your entry, including a link to the video posted on Twitter.
- cldellow 6y agoKeep reading the rest of the (very) long document that you linked, it describes two additional ways to enter.
- Bedon292 6y agoMultiple contests, the St. Jude one is https://www.prizeo.com/campaigns/inspiration4/inspiration4/official-rules https://www.prizeo.com/campaigns/inspiration4/inspiration4/o...
- d_silin 6y agoNon-US residents are out of luck for this one, unfortunately. Otherwise, great initiative!
- cbsks 6y agoAlso: "Participation in the Spaceflight is limited to individuals under six feet and six inches (6’6") in natural height and under two hundred fifty (250) pounds in natural body weight." https://www.prizeo.com/campaigns/inspiration4/inspiration4/official-rules https://www.prizeo.com/campaigns/inspiration4/inspiration4/o...
- sixQuarks 6y agoFinally! My shortness is an advantage for once.
- ripvanwinkle 6y agoHate to be that guy but what's the environmental impact of flying folks to orbit "just for kicks" if this were to become a business
- apsec112 6y agoPer capita, a lot. In absolute terms, effectively zero.
- doctoboggan 6y agoDo you know roughly how many "car-hours" this flight would be in terms of green house emissions?
- ceejayoz 6y agoNot car-hours, but a Falcon 9 launch apparently has similar impact to a 777 crossing the Atlantic. Not nothing, but surprisingly little all things considered. https://www.treehugger.com/spacex-launch-puts-out-much-co-flying-people-across-atlantic-4857958 https://www.treehugger.com/spacex-launch-puts-out-much-co-fl...
- rhino369 6y agoYea that is surprisingly low, if accurate.
- ceejayoz 6y agoI mean, they're both 200 foot long tubes full of fuel that gets used up by the end of the flight. Only so much carbon you can fit into a set volume.
- hulahoof 6y agoAgreed, though without considering it as such if someone asked me to compare to an airliner I would have placed it between 10-100x the emissions, and would not have been surprised at more!
- hawktheslayer 6y agoI like how they say "no earlier than the forth quarter" in their announcement. Though it may not inspire confidence in a deliverable date, I might start trying to use the turn of phrase at my work.
- mrpigeonpants 6y agohaha, also, refuse to use any time increment smaller than quarters. "I need to go use the restroom, but I'll be back this quarter."
- schoen 6y agoThe Hacker's Dictionary says (by way of recommending The Soul of a New Machine by Tracey Kidder) > This book (a 1982 Pulitzer Prize winner) documents the adventure of the design of a new Data General computer, the MV-8000 Eagle. It is an amazingly well-done portrait of the hacker mindset -- although largely the hardware hacker -- done by a complete outsider. It is a bit thin in spots, but with enough technical information to be entertaining to the serious hacker while providing non-technical people a view of what day-to-day life can be like -- the fun, the excitement, the disasters. During one period, when the microcode and logic were glitching at the nanosecond level, one of the overworked engineers departed the company, leaving behind a note on his terminal as his letter of resignation: "I am going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."
- snoshy 6y agoIt's a common way of describing deadlines in the aerospace industry, since a lot can go wrong with large complex engineering projects in the physical world. It's usually abbreviated to NET.
- Prcmaker 6y agoThis is perfect timing. I've just been told to communicate a significant project delay to a customer. 'Next quarter' sounds a lot better than 'months, not weeks'. Thanks heaps.
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- vz8 6y ago"The Inspiration4 crew will receive commercial astronaut training by SpaceX on the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft, orbital mechanics, operating in microgravity, zero gravity, and other forms of stress testing. They will go through emergency preparedness training, spacesuit and spacecraft ingress and egress exercises, as well as partial and full mission simulations" I would give my looks at limbs, then looks around ... PS5 ... to be one of the chosen astronauts.
- dmd 6y agoSo you'd pay ~$500? I suspect you'd be outbid.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 6y agoI wonder how expensive they'd have to make the training (just the training, not the actual trip to space) to break even on that, and whether that would be a viable commercial side project.
- ARandomerDude 6y agoI would give my...Stadia...to be one!
- peteretep 6y agoIt would be some next-level-up trolling to send up some Americans with Taiwanese and Hong Kong ancestry, although NASA already has form in this regard with Taylor Wang (ROC-born) and I note Iranian-born American Anousheh Ansari self-funded her way up too.
- taneq 6y agoThey should just send up Tom Hanks, some volunteers, and a lot of cameras.
- DC1350 6y agoThank you Elon, Very Cool!
- m3kw9 6y agoHow much??
- poyu 6y agoNever in my life have I donated $1k so fast
- hikerclimb 6y agoHopefully this blows up.
- voldacar 6y agoSuper cool that this is all-civilian, and I love the charitable aspect of it. it's not just some vain rich guy and his buddies, kudos to them
- holler 6y agoHad never heard of Jared Isaacman or Shift4 Payments, but what a remarkable story and epic marketing campaign. Also goes to show that you can create a successful business in spaces that seem crowded or dominated by a few big players. Really dig that he's bringing awareness to St. Jude and taking such a bold journey!
- sgtnoodle 6y agoBack when I worked on cargo dragon, there were definitely some coworkers crazy enough to ride C1 up for a few orbits if it were allowed. They would have been fine with just a couple seatbelt straps too...
- WalterBright 6y ago> crazy enough It's probably less risky than the first flight of the 1903 Wright Flyer. (The Flyer was highly unstable and could barely be controlled.) Modern notions of risk have changed quite a bit in the last century.
- sgtnoodle 6y agoI dunno, I'd say it's rational for someone to be weary of joyriding in the first flight of a space capsule only designed to fly for three orbits. It's pretty common to define risk as probability multiplied by severity. The wright flyer flew about 30mph 8ft off the ground. Death would certainly have been possible, but unlikely. I could imagine someone walking away from a crash. Moderate probability of crash, moderate severity injury. Moderate risk. C1 was the first flight of an early prototype (over a year before it was ready to fly a mission longer than 3 orbits). It was launched on a rocket with maybe half a dozen flights? Rocket fails: death. Payload separation fails: death. Pressure vessel fails: death. Propulsion system fails: death. Heat shield fails: death. Parachute fails: death. Moderate probability of failure, very high severity of injury. High risk.
- WalterBright 6y ago> unlikely The pilots laid prone and head first. An auger in meant they'd go head first into the ground. I don't think there was a harness or anything to prevent that. The Wrights were actually terrified of a nosedive into the ground, which is why they put the stabilizer out front. This made it much more responsive to pitch commands. Ironically, this was also the source of the pitch instability, making an abrupt nosedive more likely.
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- ExcavateGrandMa 6y agoThe day you'll have done some orbiting... you'll never feel the envy to orbit anymore after that :D
- jtchang 6y agoIn the sweepstakes it says the Approximate Retail Value ("ARV") is $2.21 Million. That is one expensive ticket!
- justaguy88 6y agoShould be closer to $50million I'm thinking
- tenuousemphasis 6y agoThat's what NASA pays per seat to ferry astronauts to the ISS.
- spike021 6y agoI wonder how this would all work though. Surely not everyone who joins the raffle has the sort of good health/natural athleticism as a typical astronaut.
- schoen 6y agoYou can look at the rules: you can be disqualified for not meeting medical standards or not passing the training. Certain forms and times of disqualification seem to come with monetary compensation, but others not.
- Ericson2314 6y agoI wish we had the green house gas quotas to smoother the rich people that do this for no benefit.
- kqr2 6y agoFrom https://www.prizeo.com/campaigns/inspiration4/inspiration4/official-rules https://www.prizeo.com/campaigns/inspiration4/inspiration4/o... : TO ENTER WITHOUT DONATING: To enter the Sweepstakes for free without donating to the Sponsor's campaign, visit the Sweepstakes Website and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the simple online entry form ("Form"). All fields must be completed. Incomplete entries are void. Each valid submission of the Form earns 100 entries. You may complete and submit the Form as many times as you wish, subject to the overall limit of 10,000 entries per person regardless of method of entry. https://www.prizeo.com/campaigns/inspiration4/inspiration4/digital-free-entry-form https://www.prizeo.com/campaigns/inspiration4/inspiration4/d... (edited)
- schoen 6y agoOne subtlety is that you apparently get ten sweepstakes "entries" per dollar you donate, whereas I believe the free-of-charge entry method you linked to only gets you one entry. So your chances of winning would start out at 1% of those of a $10 donor. Here in this thread we saw someone donate $1,000, so that person already has 10,000× the chance of winning of each person who uses the free sweepstakes entry method. :-)
- kqr2 6y agoSorry, didn't include the whole text but you can get 10,000 entries for free too: TO ENTER WITHOUT DONATING: To enter the Sweepstakes for free without donating to the Sponsor's campaign, visit the Sweepstakes Website and follow the on-screen instructions to complete the simple online entry form ("Form"). All fields must be completed. Incomplete entries are void. Each valid submission of the Form earns 100 entries. You may complete and submit the Form as many times as you wish, subject to the overall limit of 10,000 entries per person regardless of method of entry.
- schoen 6y agoOh, interesting! Well, that definitely makes free entrants a lot more competitive than they would otherwise be.
- foobarbecue 6y agoIt's a sweepstakes??
- hikerclimber 6y agohopefully it suceeds. :)
- dingaling 6y agoNot very 'inspirational' to exclude 95% of the World's population from entering. I can't see that it's based on ITAR requirements.
- aero-glide2 6y agoMaybe just eases the paperwork.