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(Poll) Space Tourism
Danny Dot wrote:
wrote in message ... When it becomes available and reasonably priced do you plan on becoming a Space Tourist? That Virgin Galactic crap? Where you don't even get into orbit? Where you are only weightless for five minutes? I'd pay $50 for that if it were at a theme park... where it belongs. I would go if I was ultra rich. Remember there are many in this world that the fee to them would be like a bus ride to the rest of us. You can't take it with you, so you might as well spend it if you have it. Danny Dot |
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Traveler wrote:
'John Doe' wrote in: -- wrote: That Virgin Galactic crap? Where you don't even get into orbit? Where you are only weightless for five minutes? I'd pay $50 for that if it were at a theme park... where it belongs. I wouldn't call it "crap". It is still an experience worth taking. It is a thrill ride which I would classify along with bungee jumping or parachuting or maybe like climbing the sydney harbour bridge. Not something I would refuse to do. I call it crap. Dumb humans are just too obsessed the with thrills and rare opportunities bull****. Um, yeah. You say that like it's a bad thing.... (assuming I'm not missing a 'sarcasm' tag) -- Frank You know what to remove to reply... Check out my web page: http://www.geocities.com/stardolphin1/link2.htm "To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." - Stephen Hawking |
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"Danny Dot" wrote:
:I would go if I was ultra rich. Remember there are many in this world that :the fee to them would be like a bus ride to the rest of us. You can't take :it with you, so you might as well spend it if you have it. All I can say is they must have some real expensive buses where you live.... -- "Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar territory." --G. Behn |
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nomen wrote:
"Danny Dot" wrote: I would go if I was ultra rich. Remember there are many in this world that the fee to them would be like a bus ride to the rest of us. You can't take it with you, so you might as well spend it if you have it. Danny Dot redistributing wealth, taking from the rich and giving to the poor sounds better. Bwahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!! That's what taxes are for... But beyond a certain point, you destroy any reason to *become* rich. Who will you redistribute from then, Robin Hood...? -- Frank You know what to remove to reply... Check out my web page: http://www.geocities.com/stardolphin1/link2.htm "To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." - Stephen Hawking |
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Frank Glover wrote: That's what taxes are for... But beyond a certain point, you destroy any reason to *become* rich. When being rich is outlawed, only outlaws will be rich. :-) Karl Marx |
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(Poll) Space Tourism
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:36:39 -0400, in a place far, far away, John Doe
made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that: -- wrote: That Virgin Galactic crap? Where you don't even get into orbit? Where you are only weightless for five minutes? I'd pay $50 for that if it were at a theme park... where it belongs. I wouldn't call it "crap". It is still an experience worth taking. It is a thrill ride which I would classify along with bungee jumping or parachuting or maybe like climbing the sydney harbour bridge. Not something I would refuse to do. However, it doesn't even come close to the experience in the Soyuz, mostly because it lacks all the training, and living in Moscow for a while, visiting Star City as well as Baikonur, meeting real astronauts, doing all the pre-requisite exercises, and I assume the wilderness survival tests (when landing on the Soyuz). I never fail to be amused at fools who mistake their own preferences for the market. |
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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message ... Frank Glover wrote: That's what taxes are for... But beyond a certain point, you destroy any reason to *become* rich. When being rich is outlawed, only outlaws will be rich. :-) That's why tax cuts improve government revenue- up to a certain point. If tax cuts were the primary answer, then it should be possible to raise government income to infinity with a tax rate of zero. The converse, of course, is that tax increases will eventually result in a decrease in revenue, as folks stop doing the things to generate revenue, and get better at hiding it. |
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PS wrote: And it is not like it is such a good thing either. Humans are like a devolved species. We're just monkeys who lost our tails growing up from little snails, after all. ;-) Pat |
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(Poll) Space Tourism
-- wrote:
When it becomes available and reasonably priced do you plan on becoming a Space Tourist? That Virgin Galactic crap? Where you don't even get into orbit? Where you are only weightless for five minutes? I'd pay $50 for that if it were at a theme park... where it belongs. Try scuba diving, it's around $50 and you get 45 minutes of weightlessness. |
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