A $100 Million Trip to the Moon 451
Kyusaku Natsume writes "Russia's federal space agency will offer a $100m trip to the moon. From the UK Guardian's article:" "We've had the necessary technology for many years, the only problem will be finding someone prepared to pay that much." "
Seems a bit steep to me... (Score:5, Funny)
From TFA:Doesn't sound all that great, really...$100 mil for that? I can do that right now for free...in fact, I am doing that right now (sitting in my cramped cubicle, eating Ding-Dongs from the snack machine, and examining the cratered lunar crust [google.com].
Oh, and by the way,
Warning (Score:5, Funny)
So lemme see if I got this right... (Score:1, Funny)
Seriously though, who in their right mind would pay that?
Need funding? (Score:3, Funny)
But the real question is... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So lemme see if I got this right... (Score:3, Funny)
except (Score:5, Funny)
Didn't RTFA
Three steps to a better world (Score:4, Funny)
2) Get Russians to provide it - one way.
3) Profit!
I wonder if... (Score:3, Funny)
I just have to get my plan to hold the world hostage with a giant "laser" off the ground.
discount (Score:3, Funny)
Seriously though, kids weigh far less and take up less space, what about a donation for a make-a-wish foundation candidate?
Just don't be the 13th to go (Score:5, Funny)
Peanuts? (Score:2, Funny)
What a bargain (Score:5, Funny)
Trip to the Moon, $100 Million (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Seems a bit steep to me... (Score:5, Funny)
In other news, the space agency was approached by a space enthusiast who suggested paying using the jingling sound of quarters worth $100 million in a tin cup. The sources confirm that the agency denied him the ride.
Re:So lemme see if I got this right... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Russsia shouldn't be the only one (Score:3, Funny)
I think this is a terrible deal, however. If the module was a bit bigger (read: i can move around, and give this weightless thing a shot) then cool. For food...biscuits? For what a weeks travel? Come on, what about the MREs...can I bring them with me...at least they are good.
NASA could do what it does for a fraction of the cost if gov't contracts weren't such a ripoff to the people.
Re:So lemme see if I got this right... (Score:2, Funny)
oi (Score:1, Funny)
Russian Space Value Meal (Score:5, Funny)
Please choose one of the following from our "Government for sale" programs:
1) Drive a t-37 tank - $50,000
2) Fly a MiG - $200,000
3) Pilot Nuclear Submarine - $1,000,000
4) Fly to IIS - $20,000,000
5) Fly to Moon - $100,000,000
6) Kill a Chechnian - $50
7) Preside over Duma for a day - $10,000
Or anything else you want to do! Just name it and we'll stick a price on it.
Re:Warning (Score:5, Funny)
Re:So lemme see if I got this right... (Score:3, Funny)
That's first class. For 50 Million Dollars, you can travel Economy, strapped to the outside of the craft as a 'pretend fuel pod.'
Re:So lemme see if I got this right... (Score:4, Funny)
From TFA:
Space tourists will not land on its surface but will circle its dark side and orbit close enough to examine its cratered lunar crust. They would live in two cramped modules about three metres across and eat biscuits and food in tubes.
So to answer your question: Compared to most major airlines, you'd be going first class!
ebay feedback: (Score:3, Funny)
What else is included? (Score:5, Funny)
For example, the Russians on board had better be some REALLY hot Russian babes (like those mail order brides they are always advertising)!
For $100 million, I'd want to be the first guy to have a three way in Space! (with 2 hot women - of course). I also want the exclusive rights to reproduce and sell the video
For that matter, would I be the first guy to have sex in Space?
I mean, seriously, if they're not landing on the moon, they had better give me something to do for two weeks. Two weeks in Space would get boring after the first few days if I had nothing to look forward to other than flying around the moon and (hopefully) landing (in one piece). They'd have to provide some serious entertainment for me to fork over that kind of cash
Re:discount (Score:5, Funny)
what about a donation for a make-a-wish foundation candidate?
Good idea. If the rocket explodes on the way up or the craft disintegrates on the round trip or burns up reentering the atmosphere we could just shrug and say "Hey, the kid was going to die anyway."
Re:Russian Space Value Meal (Score:5, Funny)
One ticket please. Aisle seat.
Re:Space tourism and lottery (Score:3, Funny)
Re:discount (Score:3, Funny)
Well, given that you weigh a sixth of your weight here, that looks like an 83% discount to me.
Oh. You mean mass. Never mind.
Re:Space tourism and lottery (Score:1, Funny)
*scratch sniff* "Cherry!"
*scratch sniff* "Cherry!!"
*scratch sniff* "Mule"
Thousand-mile high club... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Space tourism and lottery (Score:2, Funny)
Offer people a ticket for a raffle to win the goat, sell them for $1.
Appologize to the winner, after selling no less than 50 tickets, and inform him/her that the goat got loose, and ran away.
"But won't they be mad at you? You took their money!"
Ah, but I refunded the winner the cost of his ticket.
Holy F@#$ batman the moon is made of cheese! (Score:3, Funny)
Nice, nice... not thrilling, but nice... then I zoomed in on the Apollo 11 landing site. Still nice, not thrilling but nice...
so I zoomed in all the way to see how good the resolution gets.
All of the sudden... Yikes! the moon turned yellow and looked like cheese... Not surrender monkey Brie or boardshead gouda either but aparantly the surface is clearly some type of swiss cheese.
I was not prepared for this revelation! My day has now been wrecked by the likes of the google crew...
Re:Seems a bit steep to me... (Score:1, Funny)
Free
Free for 1000 Jars
Free Trip to Mars
Burma Shave
Then when they found out that somebody had collected more than 900 jars...
Free Trip to Mars
But We Have to Say
The Trip's One-Way!
Burma Shave
Re:What else is included? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Seems a bit steep to me... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What else is included? (Score:3, Funny)
Probably OT, but why not:
Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man, two chicks at the same time, man.
Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I had a million dollars I could hook that up, cause chicks dig a dude with money.
Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.
Lawrence: Well the kind of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.
Re:Three steps to a better world (Score:5, Funny)
BG: OK. Is that a wizard?
Baikonur: Try the wizard first.
BG: Got it. It says the Soyuz launch vehicle is not attached.
Baikonur: Ignore that. Click next.
BG: OK. There's an option for the retro-rockets. Selected. Oh, now it says the Soyuz has to restart.
Baikonur: OK.
(two minutes pass)
BG: Hmm, it seems to have forgotten the retro-rockets setting.
Baikonur: OK, go to control panel.
BG: Hold on, it wants me to update my virus settings.
Baikonur: Ignore that, you're going to miss your orbit insertion window.
BG: OK, Navigation Controls.
Baikonur: No, it's in Configuration Options
BG: O... K...
Baikonur: Click advanced.
BG: OK. Ah, I see retro-rockets in the list.
Baikonur: Select and click configure.
BG: It's grayed out.
Baikonur: Hmm. Are you running as admin?
BG: Uh huh.
Baikonur: It shouldn't be grayed out.
BG: It is.
Baikonur: Did you check the retro rockets are properly installed?
BG: Wow, I'm going right past the moon.
Baikonur: OK, lets try doing a 180 and using the main engines. Go to Thruster Options.
BG: OK. There's a little dog asking me if I want to lift off.
(etc, ad infinitum.)
Re:Seems a bit steep to me... (Score:3, Funny)
You get free Ding-Dongs at work? Are they hiring?
The hook... (Score:5, Funny)
(Please imagine unintelligible Cyrillic characters between quotes. I am poor and cannot afford to waste my few precious real Cyrillic characters in Slashdot posts.)
Re:Russian Space Value Meal (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Seems a bit steep to me... (Score:3, Funny)
It can be udderly [thefarside.com] devastating.
In Soviet Russia... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Seems a bit steep to me... (Score:3, Funny)
Be creative:
Tell them, "No one on the moon is using Windows: in fact, there's a strict, enforced 'No Windows' policy."
They'll be packing, along with their landsharks, and on the launchpad before a blastoff can be scheduled.
Re:Seems a bit steep to me... (Score:3, Funny)
That's marketing-speak for "crash".