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> These launches are marketing events for their space tourism businesses! Okay, so these launches aren't amusement rides for billionaires, they are marketing s
by thethethethe 5y ago
> These launches are marketing events for their space tourism businesses!
Okay, so these launches aren't amusement rides for billionaires, they are marketing stunts to advertise amusement rides for other billionaires? Hard to see the difference tbh
- meepmorp 5y agoNo need to be snide. Prices will drop hundreds of thousands of dollars in just a few years, well within the means of many millionaires. Democratization of space FTW!
- thethethethe 5y agoPoe's law is strong in this one
- pavon 5y agoThese rides are being sold for a few hundred thousand dollars. Before New Shepard and SpaceShipTwo, the only private tourists to space paid tens of millions. That is a huge decrease in price! Now any millionaire can afford it, and it is just within reach of an upper middle class person willing to save for a significant part of their life. Some people couldn't care less about this, but others have dreamed of flying into space ever since Yuri Gagarin, and it is finally a reality. And like all things, the price will go down. Not as fast as I'd like for these specific crafts, but they seemed like a good target at the time their development began.
- thethethethe 5y agos/billionaires/millionaires isn't a very compelling argument in my opinion. It's still a huge waste all so some rich people can float in zero-g for a few minutes so making it accessable to a few million people instead of a few thousand doesn't seem like a win to me.
- BurningFrog 5y agoIs there anything billionaires can spend money on that doesn't seem like waste from your perspective?
- thethethethe 5y agoEasy, paying their workers more