Maybe we get to see a rocket full of billionaires go pop. That’d be neat.
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First flight of an airplane: 1903 First landing on the Moon: 1969
67 years. Not even a single average lifetime.
I remember there being a newspaper interview with an old lady. She was a child and saw one of the wright brothers first flights. She then got to see man land on the moon, at the other end of her life.
66.5, even. Wright flyer flew in December, Eagle landed in July.
Technically correcter, therefore bester.
Both the “space” and “travel” parts of “space travel” are disputable there. It’s not even “space tourism”. I’ll maybe give you “high altitude tourism”. Space tourism, to me, implies spending an extended period in space, not a minute or two. That’s barely enough time for a satisfying wank.
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Travel to where exactly?
So bored rich people can piss away a shitload of cash to look at the unrelenting blackness of space for a few moments before coming back to earth and continuing their lives of wasteful excess in a vacuum of ignorance, duh
While doing this they will emit the carbon dioxide equivalent of 395 transatlantic flights, or the c02 emissions equivalent of what 22-24 Americans output in an entire year from their average daily life. Meanwhile sabotaging an oil pipeline is called ecoterrorism but their behavior is called a fun experience. But that’s okay, katy perry had to see space! We don’t need those ice caps, really. Sorry your children will grow up in a post apocalyptic wasteland
Ecoterrorism is ecology-motivated.
Egoterrorism on the other hand…
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To do what when you arrive at this novel location? Leave Edison’s electrocution of an elephant out of this.
🎶They’ll say, “Aww, Topsy” at your autopsy…🎶
Colonize space of course!
Yup, this is the sad reality of the system we live in. If we want space travel, it has to receive funding, and we have to hope that billionaires really want that wank.
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I know the chances of me going to space are slim to none at best
I’ll still root for the advancements of space travel cause not everything is about me
Awesome song about this that becomes increasingly more relevant every day:
I mean it was never going to magically go from highly selective to anyone being able to go to space overnight. As time goes on and technology advances the “too much money” bar drops lower and lower.
Hopefully if society doesn’t collapse, it might be feasible for an average person to do it as a once in a lifetime experience.
I hear there’s nuttin in space anyway
Such negative sentiment. Not everything is about rebelling against billionaires you know? Space travel is following the same innovation curve as any other mode of travel. Remember how expensive a car used to be, or flying? Those used to be only for the wealthy, now you can hop on a flight to the other side of the content for less than 100 Euro. It will eventually be the same for space travel. The cost of space cargo is coming down quickly, which will enable us to explore “the final frontier”. I hope I get to experience it in my lifetime and it isn’t really outside the realm of possibility either.
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What about Strauss-Kahn who lost the french presidency election because he wanked in front an hotel employee ?
Human testing, obviously.
According to space, the end goal is
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