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A $100 Million Trip to the Moon
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." "
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.
Oh, and by the way,
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Warning: Dont buy this. The price is does not include a landing. You just fly around the moon and come back. It is clearly a rip off.
I can pay $100 million to go stand on a big rock covered with dust? Sign me up!!!
Seriously though, who in their right mind would pay that?
They can ask that Russian astrologer that sued over the Temple 1 probe for the 'moral damages'.
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does it include the return trip?
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
Once you're there getting back will cost another hundred million.
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1) Convice Bill to offer "one BILEEEON dollars" for a landing.
2) Get Russians to provide it - one way.
3) Profit!
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I just have to get my plan to hold the world hostage with a giant "laser" off the ground.
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Can I get a discount if I lose a few pounds?
Seriously though, kids weigh far less and take up less space, what about a donation for a make-a-wish foundation candidate?
Unless you want to say, "Bakinour, we have a problem."
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So do you get a bag of peanuts on your trip?
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Damn, I'd pay the $100M but I don't think my boss would let me take the week off.
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The trip back, priceless
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This is nothing new...Russia was the first to offer civilians the opportunity to fly in fighter jets.
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.
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Start the countdown. Not to the launch mind you, but to the first person posting a soivet russia joke.
Welcome to Crazy Ivan's Russian Experience!!! Everything is for sale, all offers considered!!!
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.
"Seller is A-one first rate! That really was the real moon right outside my window. Really the authentic item."
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For $100 million, they better do better than just a pass around the moon!
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... (that is, if I had it).
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
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No it goes this way:You sign up and pay $10 dollars. When you get 10M friends to sign up and each pay $10 you get your moon trip. When each of them gets 10M firends to sign up they get their moon trip.....it'll work, i swear. :)
If they have a lottery, the ticket should be scratch-n-sniff style like the lottery ticket Fry bought on Futurama: :(
*scratch sniff* "Cherry!"
*scratch sniff* "Cherry!!"
*scratch sniff* "Mule"
It might be easier to find someone willing to pay that kind of money for a private, small but luxurious compartment, big enough for two, and a short, orbital or perhaps even suborbital trip with a couple of hours of weightlessness.
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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.
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So... I click on the moon.google.com link you posted.
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...
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The hook is that beverage service is not even included. By day 3, they expect to be able to charge you another $100 million for each can of Coke. And it won't even be real Coke, just some weird Uzbekistan knockoff named 'Koke'.
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They charge you $200 Million to bring you back.
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