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[topsider]

Hypothetical:
Would you give up a year's income to be able to travel into space (orbit the earth, maybe spacewalk, but not walk on a non-terrestrial surface)?

Comments

[cutup]

Did you hear the Russian government is offering trips to the moon for $100 million?

[cutup]

(That's about how much I make in a year, so these kinds of things aren't hypothetical to me.)

[ganatronic]

Are we talking like two weeks in space, or closer to two days? But yeah, I'd do it. I'd rather we had better technology, though, good enough so I could pop out to Pluto and then cruise around and zap asteroids for a bit.

[space_princess]

i wouldn't even do it if it were free. i would imagine space travel to be really uncomfortable. i don't like the idea of urination without the aid of gravity, but maybe that's just me.

[ganatronic]

You just pee into a vacuum, baby. And not a space/time vacuum, but a Hoover vacuum.
Personally I have issues with peeing in an open bowl full of water. I wish I could pee in space every day.

[brainwaster]

no way. maybe a year of my income circa 1994, but not now.

[ganatronic]

You've become too powerful to give it up now?
Don't kid yourself, bro. Starting over in a year wouldn't really be starting over. You'd have all that experience, and those recommendations. I don't think it would set you back much (not like I actually know what you do). Plus you'd have gone to space. That might, you know, open up some new doors.

[brainwaster]

you're anti-space at my house and pro-space at jeff's house. it's like me with sports.