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Bezos' Blue Origin revealed!
"Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... "Okay, I can stick the $200,000 into the spaceflight...or I can buy a Lamborghini Gallardo for $175,000: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini_Gallardo The car will get you laid faster than a ticket stub for a suborbital flight. |
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... I thought the whole flight was fascinating, and the view wonderful; but I can guarantee you I don't remember it anywhere near as much as that time I was up in the Bridger Range of mountains near Bozeman, Montana all on my own, and hyperventilated to the point where I almost fell off the mountain because of my senses getting muddled and unconsciousness setting in. That was memorable, because if things had gone just a little differently, it would have been all over. Well, gee, Pat, *I* almost lost it at the Grand Canyon because of a poor choice in picking the rock to put my weight on. |
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"Jeff Findley" wrote in message ... True, but how did Alan Shepherd feel about his suborbital flight? He certainly didn't drop out of NASA after it was over. *He* didn't write a check for $200,000 for the ride. |
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"Greg D. Moore (Strider)" wrote in message hlink.net... And $200K doesn't and won't buy you a "walk up, here's my black American Express Card" climb aboard flight. It gets you the "training", the flight jacket, the "My granddad flew on SS-2 and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" etc. In short, you're not buying 5 minutes of weightlessness, you're buying the whole experience. Go to Recall and get the same thing for $500. |
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Scott Hedrick wrote: I thought the whole flight was fascinating, and the view wonderful; but I can guarantee you I don't remember it anywhere near as much as that time I was up in the Bridger Range of mountains near Bozeman, Montana all on my own, and hyperventilated to the point where I almost fell off the mountain because of my senses getting muddled and unconsciousness setting in. That was memorable, because if things had gone just a little differently, it would have been all over. Well, gee, Pat, *I* almost lost it at the Grand Canyon because of a poor choice in picking the rock to put my weight on. Don't you just hate it when they start moving? We've got a earth-fill dam just north of town, and you'd really think that all the boulders on the water side would have achieved some angle of repose after thirty years... but no... they just sit there as precariously balanced as they were on day one, and then you step on a odd-shaped multi-ton piece of granite, hear the grinding noise under your feet as it does a teeter-totter on you, and start heading downhill. At least in the Bridger Range two hummingbirds came flying out of the tree range near me, hovered a foot or so in front of my face giving me the once-over, and then flew off as I sat in a wobbly super-oxygenated state thinking "I'm going to fall off the mountain now, aren't I? Okay, I can deal with this... it's just my karma, isn't it?". I just thought it was odd and funny, but new-age vision quests have been made out of far less substantial things. :-) Pat |
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... Well, gee, Pat, *I* almost lost it at the Grand Canyon because of a poor choice in picking the rock to put my weight on. Don't you just hate it when they start moving? It was a Wile E. Coyote moment, I tell ya, especially since that same rock held me fine on the way down. My wife won't let me climb rocks anymore. Ropes are for pussies. |
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Scott Hedrick wrote: Don't you just hate it when they start moving? It was a Wile E. Coyote moment, I tell ya, especially since that same rock held me fine on the way down. This is a fun website BTW: http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/acme.html Pat |
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... Scott Hedrick wrote: Don't you just hate it when they start moving? It was a Wile E. Coyote moment, I tell ya, especially since that same rock held me fine on the way down. This is a fun website BTW: http://home.nc.rr.com/tuco/looney/acme/acme.html I wasn't scared as I fell. It's nothing macho, I was just too busy digging my fingers into the rock racing by. |
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"Scott Hedrick" wrote in message ... I wasn't scared as I fell. Quite right. As you know it's not the fall that does you in :-) Well, it can if the Q is high enough ... |
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Scott Hedrick wrote: I wasn't scared as I fell. It's nothing macho, I was just too busy digging my fingers into the rock racing by. Sounds like me and the butte by Bismarck. It was a big "badlands" type formation (not rock, but extremely hard dirt, like dried adobe) and had a pretty vertical face where a road had been cut through it. So I had the brilliant idea that it would be very easy to climb; all I had to do was cut hand and footholds in it with my geologic hammer and I could scurry right up it. This worked like a charm, and soon I was on top. Only one problem...once on top, there was no way to see where those hand and footholds were when it was time to go over the edge and start back down. So I decided to go down the side which was inclined at around 45 degrees and covered with small loose pebbles. ....which is where I started sliding down the side at a ever increasing rate until I arrived in the pile of cacti at the bottom, which drove their needles through the sides of my tennis shoes, effectively nailing them to my feet. As I looked down at my shoes, and realized I was going to have to take them off, I suspected that this was going to be a bit painful to do. I was not to be disappointed in that regard. :-) Pat |
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