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Two New Space Tourists Announced
jfoust writes "Reuters is reporting that the space tourism company Space Adventures has signed up two Americans, at $20 million each, to fly on future Soyuz missions to the ISS. No details about who these people are, other than one is a 38-year-old male Manhattan real estate developer. One will fly in 2004 and the other in 2005. If you haven't quite saved up the $20 million yet, don't worry, the company is still looking for at least two additional tourists for flights through 2007..."
Damnit! I spent my $20,000,000 buying SCO licenses for my Beowulf cluster...
Does anyone remember just how many frequent flyer miles I would need to get one of those other spots?
'Thanks.. er, why does my ticket say 'ballast' on it, instead of my name?'
'Er, merely a formality sir. Now if you just take your seat in the 'duct taped to the wing' section.'
.. am incensed by the lack of opportunity for 'evil overlord jokes'. Damn you Nasa, you insensitive clods!
They'll STILL find that all the best spots around the pool have been reserved by Germans.
I'm sure I could scrape together $10,000,000 for an xmas gift to our beloved Eisner.
"Derp de derp."
Deep Vein Thrombosis is going to be a bitch in space...
"So what do you do?"
"I'm a real estate developer . . and in my spare time I'm an astronaut."
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
You're not allowed to develop real estate on the moon. And he thought he was going to break even on his trip... So who owns the moon? SCO, of course. Because they've got the title. You have to pay SCO a few million dollars and sign your life away to get the rights to see their title to the moon, but the title is bonafide. Or so they say.
Who moved my sig?
just for the ice cream. 20 million would be worth a weeks worth of astronaut icecream. :)_
Viral software licensing is not freedom, it is in fact GNU/Socialism.
In honor of the many replies on whether this is a waste of money, let me suggest some better things to do with $20 Million:
* Hire Van Halen and The Who to play at your birthday party
* Run 5 commercials during the Superbowl
* Kill yourself and watch every distant relative you've hardly ever spent time with come out of the wood work and crawl over your material posessions like maggots.
* Get into some questionable relationship with a young child and pay off the parents who threaten to take it public.
* Hire a D.C. lobbyist to promote the further reduction of the capital gains tax.
* Fund the new "Reagan Dime"
* Create a new reality TV show that makes contestants watch other reality TV shows. Call it "Really Real TV."
* Buy a bunch of SCOX stock
* Fund a feasibility study into the mating habits of the Duckbill Platapus
* Hire Johnny Cochran and F. Lee Bailey and make them scrub your toilets.
* Sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom
* Change the name of your favorite sports arena or convention center
* Buy every employee at Apple a brand new VW
* Produce a new Nick Cage or Van Damme movie