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Google Shoots for the Moon
$20 million doesnt seem much of a prize for building a spaceship and landing on the moon..
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Virgin Space Shuttle
a $1000 a minute is still a rich mans game. Id rather spend a few month on the beach in thailand than spend $5000 for 5 mins in space. I would be that excited that 5 mins would seem like 10 seconds and I wouldnt take anything in. plus people would be pushing you outa the way to get the best view for their money!.
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space travel for normal folk?
You need to be strong enough to join a space travel!.
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Zero gravity for $3,750 plus tax
[quote]....also that link is 404[/quote]
The original post is from almost 3 years ago... :roll:
Anyway, you can see it on space.com here: http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ft_051008_zerog_ksc.html.
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funny website about a travel company owner going to space
I used to work for Craig, and the comment about "once a space cadet" has never been more true.
http://doncastronaut.com/
Nick.
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Aliens
Im pretty sure that inteligent life exists in more than one place in the universe but the chances of two species actually existing at the same time and meeting must be pretty remote. Anyhow, read a good book last year: "Aliens why they are here" by Brian Appleyard which was quite interesting..
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ENOUGH OF THE TALK: MAN NEVER WENT TO THE MOON!!!
[quote]... and u could get sites and videos proving this too!![/quote]
Oh no you couldn't. :P It's actually very difficult to PROVE anything. You have to eliminate ALL doubt, and I don't think the conspiracy theorists have done that.
FWIW, here are the 10 most popular hoax claims:
#10. Fluttering Flag: The American flag appears to wave in the lunar wind.
#9. Glow-in-the-Dark Astronauts: If the astronauts had left the safety of the Van Allen Belt the radiation would have killed them.
#8. The Shadow Knows: Multiple-angle shadows in the Moon photos prove there was more than one source of light, like a large studio lamp.
#7. Fried Film: In the Sun, the Moon's temperature is toasty 280 degrees F. The film (among other things) would have melted.
#6. Liquid Water on the Moon: To leave a footprint requires moisture in the soil, doesn't it?
#5.
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UFO?
Company discaimer- the opinions expressed in the previous blogs are not those held by RoomFT. RoomFT believes in equal opportunity for all, aliens included. RoomFT does not support alien discrimination. Thank you.
hehehe :lol:.
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Warning of catastrophe from mass of 'space junk'
The amount of debris orbiting the Earth has reached a critical level. Old satellite parts, solar panels and the odd astronaut's lost glove now pose serious risks to space missions. A report from the International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety is calling for stringent international laws to be brought in urgently to avert a tragedy.
The threat posed by orbiting debris can only be allayed by extending civil aviation standards into space, says the report, which is to be presented to the United Nations in April. 'Failure to act now to regulate space to protect property and human life would be pure folly,' says the association's director, Tommaso Sgobba. Professor Richard Crowther, who is representing the UK at a UN space safety meeting in Vienna, agrees: 'Eventually binding international civil aviation style laws will have to come.'
Last week, the United States courted an international row after shooting down a disabled spy satellite, saying its fuel could cause serious damage if it crashed to Earth.
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The Milky Way is twice the size we thought it was
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i204/tampico554/milkyway.jpg
We were tossing around ideas about the size of the Galaxy, and thought we had better check the standard numbers that everyone uses," Professor Gaensler said.
It took just a couple of hours using data available on the internet for University of Sydney scientists to discover that the Milky Way is twice as wide as previously thought.
Astrophysicist Professor Bryan Gaensler led a team that has found that our galaxy - a flattened spiral about 100,000 light years across - is 12,000 light years thick, not the 6,000 light years that had been previously thought.
Proving not all science requires big, expensive apparatus, Professor Gaensler and colleagues, Dr Greg Madsen, Dr Shami Chatterjee and PhD student Ann Mao, downloaded data from the internet and analysed it in a spreadsheet.
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Trips to the moon
Space junk is going to be an issue if more flights go up. I'd do it for the right price though..
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Moon for sale
I did a politics project on this a few years ago for uni. It is very interesting indeed, because it is one of the few properly uncolonised places to come within our reach (in terms of motivation as well as capability) since the norms of national sovereignty became so entrenched. The problems are coming up because we no longer accept that say 'It's mine'.
Interestingly, there has been a UN mandate that says roughly 'the United States does not own the moon', as a clarification of what their flag there means, but what they say about the other countries is characteristically vague- it is referred to in terms like the 'common heritage of humanity'.
There are lots of parallels with Antarctica of course, which like the moon there has until recent and continuing changes in world economy/ technology etc been much point in claiming it.
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Comet hotel - fine if NASA don't lose it...
I had an idea earlier - wouldn't it be really cool to take the concept of an ice hotel and place it in outer space, say on board a comet since they've got plenty of ice...? OK, you've gotta be careful about which bit of ice you chose, but it'd give Martini on the Rocks a whole new meaning.
The only tiny problem to this is that NASA seem to have lost the latest one they were trying to land on, something called [url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/17/deep_impact/]Comet Boethin[/url], but hey this is perfect - just like one of those package holidays where you get dumped at the airport and find the hotel has been demolished.
Must admit I was really chuffed to find out that they're trying to land on Comet Hartley 2 which is nice as we never get anything named after us. There's about as much chance of calling a planet "Trev".
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Space hotel
I have enough problems getting to the other side of the world, I don't think I'll be in space anytime soon!! :P.
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Smithsonian Air and Space Museum
We recently took a trip to DC and spent some time in the Air and Space Museum. This place is fantastic! You can see all kinds of things from Apollo space capsules to Amelia Earhart's plane. I'd highly recommend it to anyone interested in space travel!.
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When do you think travel companies will take us to the moon?
The companies are already taking us to space, so in no time the moon will be a delightfull cruise :P
Ok, not the companies, but Nasa. And not us, but those with endless bank accounts....... but it has been done and will be developed in the future.
Think about it, less than 100 years ago, only few people had a car, now everybody has at least 2! :P
ciao.
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Galactic Suite space hotel - mere $4m!
Why not try the latest idea in space travel after you've been on Virgin Galactic and tasted near space travel, you could book a place on the [url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKL1089156420070810]Galactic Suite space hotel[/url] which will set you back a mere $4m for 3 nights...!
Naturally all rooms come with a nice view although whether they turn it around so you see both the earth and stars I'm not too sure. However $4m (2m) for 3 nights I guess qualifies as the most expensive hotel in history....even outdoing some of these daftly priced suites. :)
Strangely this one isn't from Richard Branson, but a collection of people although most of the $3billion it took to get the idea off the ground (sorry!) came from one person. I wonder who apart from Bill Gates has $3b !?
Trev.
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space stations
I once went out with a fella who told me he had crashlanded in the woods, that he had survived and awoken to find me sitting in the seat next to him. I told him he was joking, he said he was serious and couldnt remember anything of his life before he was 16, the age he crashlanded. Of course, he was joking, spaced-out or completely mad. I didnt stay around to find out which..
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Zero Gravity - fly like an astronaut!
3.000 dollars for 30 seconds ? That`s 100 dollars for every second ! The price is outrageous! Come on,how many people will going to try this ?.
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Japan travel agency to offer trips to space
Sign me in! I want to go,just joking. Seriously now,although I think it`s an amazing experience the price is just too big..How many people can afford a trip like this ?.
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