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This will make a great basis for an SF story -- most likely a comedy. The kinds of people who can front $500k for an exercise like this will generally be quite
by podperson 14y ago
This will make a great basis for an SF story -- most likely a comedy. The kinds of people who can front $500k for an exercise like this will generally be quite rich. If it's a one-way trip (or even if they're seriously contemplating immigration) rich people will want to liquidate assets and turn them into some kind of competitive advantage on Mars, but there's this really expensive cargo pipe (presumably with a waiting list), so I can see the 50 year old single software engineer with Aspberger's sitting on $750k in investments buying a ticket (and selling $500k of stocks to do so) and then discovering that some maverick billionaire wants to buy his ticket for $5M so he can bring over a suitcase of paté de foie gras and single malt Scotch, an antique stock ticker, and a catamite.
Here's a funnier idea -- offer shipment to Mars as an alternative to the appeals process for death penalty cases. It would save us money, and make for an awesome Nicholas Cage vehicle. This is how you establish a colony, dammit!
- bentcorner 14y ago> Here's a funnier idea -- offer shipment to Mars as an alternative to the appeals process for death penalty cases. It would save us money, and make for an awesome Nicholas Cage vehicle. This is how you establish a colony, dammit! Just what we need. A planetful of pissed off inmates who, with the arrival of the mad genius scientist, invent teleportation and attack the leader of the free world, and almost succeed at doing so if it weren't for the ex-seal cop who just wants to get home to his kids (and he also happens to reconnect with his wife who had separated with him, but now realizes that he was distant only because it kept them safe).
- ddw 14y ago> and he also happens to reconnect with his wife who had separated with him, but now realizes that he was distant only because it kept them safe My favorite aspect of the action hero that is divorced. It's not because he did anything _bad_, he just wasn't around enough. See also: action hero that has to go to jail because he killed a guy, but it was actually only in self defense.
- stcredzero 14y agoNot only goes to jail, but is also executed. However, by some highly unlikely circumstance, the execution doesn't work, so then the hero gets carte blanche to enact revenge on the parties that set him up due to "double jeopardy."
- gadders 14y ago> Here's a funnier idea -- offer shipment to Mars as an alternative to the appeals process for death penalty cases. It would save us money, and make for an awesome Nicholas Cage vehicle. This is how you establish a colony, dammit! Well, it worked for Australia.
- podperson 14y agoExactly!