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I'm half joking, but I'm worried someone will try to sell spaceplane trips to some inhospitable alien desert like Namibia and market it as "the interplanetary e

I'm half joking, but I'm worried someone will try to sell spaceplane trips to some inhospitable alien desert like Namibia and market it as "the interplanetary experience"... edit: Actually that could be interesting..

wpietri 13y ago
Ooh, I'll happily build the spaceship's "earth communication unit" so it has realistic delay: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/614795/simulate-delayed-and-dropped-packets-on-linux http://stackoverflow.com/questions/614795/simulate-delayed-a...
lgieron 13y ago
Death Valley in California is good enough for that IMO.
jff 13y ago
Why worry? Who cares if somebody wants to fly over Namibia and pretend they're looking at Mars?
jotm 13y ago
Hey, don't give people stupid ideas :-). But really, that could pretty cool (until you find out you were duped).