Now YOU can fly to space for $450,000: Virgin Galactic announces first public space tourism flight for three people in August
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Those who didn't get to visit Titanic now can try to visit space.
Billionaires: the best candidates for Darwin Awards
Not really, unfortunately.
Wow, it almost costs twice as much for the chance to explode instead of implode!
Exploding is much more fabulous than imploding, obviously!
This is so much better than socializing healthcare
How would Virgin Galactic socialize healthcare?
Rich people shouldn't have the money to do this before we have universal healthcare.
There are thousands of other things they shouldn't have the money to pay for before someone should arrive saying that innovating space exploration technology shouldn't exist.
Wrong.
I guess they are reducing the number of people it would need to support.
There’s gonna be a floating graveyard of billionaires whizzing around the Earth and taking out satellites soon enough.
Bonus points whenever they hit a Starlink.
please no. the debris will make everything worse
No it won't. They are orbiting very low.
It's entirely possible that they will still end up on the ocean floor inside some crumpled metal and composites.
The billionaires yearn for the tubes
I had a look at my bank account, and it turns out I actually can't.
Perhaps less avocado toast in the morning and more tugging on bootstraps in the afternoon?
Tim Gurner. The ratshit who got a massive free "loan" from his dad is named Tim Gurner.
What if you sell everything and work for 237 more years?
Also I need a new job.
Haha “fuck, so close..”
Rejoice, subsistence farmers of Africa.
This is what your overlords are spending their money on.
They have upgraded the controller and now use a wired xbox version so that it will never run out of batteries. It's safer than ever
You joke but the US military uses Xbox controllers very heavily
And how many atmospheres of pressure can the planet express ship withstand?
Well, it's a space ship, so anywhere between zero and one.
Well it's a space ship so, somewhere between 1 and 0.
Just today I learned in a YT vid how much more dangerous the deep sea is compared to space. In the ISS there's around 1 bar of pressure, in space it's zero. 1 bar difference. In the deep sea it's more like 1000 bar vs 1 bar.
I think you meant deep sea because the surface of earth would be crushed by space.
Oh yes, of course. Thank you, I edited my post.
Gross. Can't they go back to building libraries for schools?
Those were the days, but nah.
How are you going to show off to your peers by helping others? That's not sexy right now. It's sexy to exploit others for... checks notes... SPACE!!!!!!
Can't get any good pics for their IG from that, building libraries are fo rif raf millionaires
Now I wouldn't spend that much money on a short trip to the edge of space even if I had it. If I'm going to blow that much money at once, I'll blow it on charity.
It's the whole "edge of space" thing that really pisses me off. When the billionaires started talking about creating their own space program, I was expecting corporate settlements on the moon or Mars--dystopian, to be sure, but at least humanity would be making progress to the stars. But no, let's be content with charging people to get to the edge of space so they can go home and tell themselves they're astronauts.
It's like driving to the Disney World sign, taking a photo, then going home and telling everyone you went to Disney World.
Rich people used to pay the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of dollars to ride short distances on triplanes just so they could see the ground from above. That's what this is. Soon, rich people will be going on trips to the Moon, and then middle class people will be able to afford it later. New technologies are always expensive at first but then get cheaper, case in point, the computer you're using right now.
Also, I doubt a corporate settlement is gonna be any worse than any other settlement considering almost everything the colony actually needs will be produced in the colony itself after the first few years and the corporation can't do much from all the way over on Earth if the colony decides to do something they don't like. Colonization schemes have usually been private endeavors that get subsumed by the state anyway, been like that since the Americas. I support anyone who brings us to the stars, including rich people.
I also like the implications of this technology when it does become affordable. Flights at the edge of space can go faster and have the potential to be more efficient for long distances.
With that much money you can have a charity blow you!
/s
Pretty much.
It's important people are left barely alive so parasites can talk all they can.
If I had the money to blow I wouldn't give it all to charity... Some, sure, I can think of a few I like.
That being said, after getting my luxury bones fixed and getting out of pain, I'd just buy a house and pay off my car.
Then retire. Probably move somewhere tropical... Or isolated, haven't decided. Maybe both is possible. All I know is a fiber (or future equivalent) would be mandatory.
Because if I have 450k to just blow, I've got way more in reserve.
My thought is if I can afford to blow 450k on a space trip, I can afford to give it to some needy cause instead and still live a good life.
NGL big titan vibes
Is this made of solid steel with a wired 8bitdo controller?
Well, at least you won't be on an imploding sub.
Branson is more of an old brand billionaire, though. He doesn't think money can override science and health and safety.
Lol, hard pass, even if I was paid to go
Adds more to the rich contribution to climate change