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I do see some silliness, but I don't see the kind of money that flowed in the late 90s. Or am I wrong?
by api 15y ago
I do see some silliness, but I don't see the kind of money that flowed in the late 90s. Or am I wrong?
- burgerbrain 15y agoFacebook bought Instagram for as much money as it would take to put something like 112 '69 Volkswagon Beetles into low earth orbit. Now maybe that is an isolated incident, but I'm not so sure.
- lysol 15y ago89615kg to LEO (kg converted from curb weight of 112 '69 Beetles[1]) would actually cost 1,613,076,070 dollars[2]. [1]: http://www.1800vw.bizhosting.com/1969.htm http://www.1800vw.bizhosting.com/1969.htm [2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Space_Shuttle_program http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_the_Space_Shuttle_... Cost per kg from here
- molsongolden 15y agoNot if you use a SpaceX Falcon 9. edit: A quick search turned up a cost of less than $5,500/kg to LEO so it would only cost $492,882,500!
- IanDrake 15y agoPricing everything in the number of times you could rocket to space seems like "the next" Internet meme. Great for SpaceX for achieving that, but it's really not a measuring stick for value.
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- burgerbrain 15y agoNot a measuring stick for value, no. But certainly a measuring stick for "expensive as hell".
- burgerbrain 15y agoIndeed I was using SpaceX Falcon 9 numbers. Looks like I botched my math though.