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Agreed, They might as well close the company when a disaster happens. I wouldn't risk my life for 3 minutes of weightlessness. A week or two in space is another
by deletes 13y ago
Agreed, They might as well close the company when a disaster happens. I wouldn't risk my life for 3 minutes of weightlessness. A week or two in space is another story.
- ianstallings 13y agoYeah I don't like the idea of going to space for a quick trip very much. Rockets are incredibly powerful, and hence dangerous, machines. Never mind all the inherent dangers of the environment. It's just not enough pay off for me. One could always take a lift on the vomit comet if they want to feel weightless: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_gravity_aircraft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced_gravity_aircraft A trip to the ISS though? Holy cow I'd risk my life to go there. 300km orbit for a few weeks? It's just too much to pass up.
- tezza 13y agoOf course you are right it would be a complete disaster. However that might not be the end of it all. HN's SimonW gave a talk at Electromagnetic Wave 2013 about the fun and frolics of Zepplins. Apparently plenty of them crashed and burned, but people kept travelling on them. Early aeroplanes would crash too. http://lanyrd.com/2013/emw/scgptt/ http://lanyrd.com/2013/emw/scgptt/