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hanaeleh · Post by **hanaeleh** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 12:13 pm

Has anyone else been following this?

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/space/06/2 ... index.html

I've been following this race and it looks like us laypeople might actually be able to get into space without all that darn fool book-learning and science nonsense!

pastatdude · Post by **pastatdude** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 1:11 pm

I have issues paying the price for a plane ticket, let alone a spaceship ticket.

It'd be cool to go into space though.

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 1:11 pm

That's nice. I have a friend named "John Lennon".

hanaeleh · Post by **hanaeleh** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 1:39 pm

Imagine that, Cloud.

Majin_Vegeta_2028 · Post by **Majin_Vegeta_2028** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 1:43 pm

hanaeleh wrote:without all that darn fool book-learning and science nonsense!

strange, thats exactly what my high school career councilor told me

id do it, but id wait a couple of years until they perfect it a little more.

Marauder · Post by **Marauder** » Mon Jun 21, 2004 6:32 pm

I think it's a great achievement! The whole project only cost about $20 million to get to where it is now. NASA could probably learn a few things about cost-efficiency from them

I'd love to be in the SpaceShipOne for it's first "official" trips, but I'd gladly pay for a commercial flight at some point.

Keropi · Post by **Keropi** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 12:04 am

It sounds like fun to me, but I would never want to pay over $10,000 to do it. And it'll be a long time before doing something like that will become that "cheap".

Cloud · Post by **Cloud** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 12:05 am

Oh really what does fun to him or her but he or she would never want to pay over $10000 to do it sound like?

Makoli · Post by **Makoli** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 1:32 am

hell no i have problems with getting car sick...*rembers the trip up to sakura-con and shudders* i dont reamber eating quiche at all.

weyrlady · Post by **weyrlady** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 7:51 am

Hells yeah! Getting humanity into space is something I *really* want to see happen in my lifetime. If I had the money, I'd already be up in the ISS. ;-)

On a similar subject, anyone here read "Firestar" by Michael Flynn? Life imitates art, apparently. I wonder who will be our Mariesa van Huyten...

In_Gabriel_We_Trust · Post by **In_Gabriel_We_Trust** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 8:10 am

This is not for me... yet.
All that money and no peanuts or little kahlua-bottles...

Kane · Post by **Kane** » Tue Jun 22, 2004 5:01 pm

If I had lots of money I'd love to go out into space. That would be so cool!

Wendy · Post by **Wendy** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 8:53 am

Makoli wrote:i dont reamber eating quiche at all.

That's just nasty

But I would go! definitely!

yaten · Post by **yaten** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 11:16 am

Once i'm old and the price for the trip drops to a reasonable rate... I'll do it. ^^ Until then... yeah... I'll just have to rely on that Stargate buried in my backyard. I'm still waiting for McGuyver to come jumpin through it.

hanaeleh · Post by **hanaeleh** » Wed Jun 23, 2004 6:39 pm

Hee hee... Richard Dean Anderson is rather cute, but I'd rather have Michael Shanks.... mmm....

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