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Who Would Pay $2 BILLION for a vacation on Mars?
On Jul 21, 7:33*am, BradGuth wrote:
On Jul 20, 9:17*pm, giveitawhirl2008 wrote: On Jul 20, 10:40*pm, BradGuth wrote: On Jul 20, 5:10*pm, giveitawhirl2008 wrote: Let them check out: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.policy/topics Is that $2 BILLION per ticket some kind of a cheap group rate? (possibly one-way?) *~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth BG / “Guth Usenet” Hopefully not one way! Not intentionally! But that's $2 Billion PER SEAT! Some people could coff that up! And I do not find it absurd that some of those WOULD! I agree, although each two-way ticket might have to run at least $10B. *~ BG- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Well, you might be right because even at $10 Billion the seat may not be paying for itself, fully. Maybe it would actually have to cost $20 Billion to pay for itself. I was originally thinking $2 Billion because, high as that is, it sounds like something a few could afford and might even be willing to fork over for the chance to go to MARS. But I was also thinking, maybe I should be multiplying these prices by a factor of TEN if customers are REALLY going to "carry their weight" as to the cost of the total flight. I've even been thinking (casually, with some but not a full amount of research): With the true cost of a Soyuz launch possibly as low as $150 Million - and upping this to $200 Million to cover contingencies and allow a moderate profit margin - that: The Russians could fly EXTRA Soyuz missions that are not part of their normal space program, which would NOT need to go to the ISS but just orbit the Earth one to several times and return. With ONE professional cosomonaut and TWO PAYING passengers, this could be at $100 million per seat. One consideration: would the Russians have to build extra hardware or could they just use existing hardware? If they need to build EXTRA stuff, this might up the price unreasonably. But at $100 Million for a trip to orbit, I think your James Cameron types might fo for it. It's either: pay only $20 Million to go the ISS but get in a line that's already out the door, and therefore you may never go, OR, get in the SHORT LINE - the $100 Million Line! THEN you actually get to GO...and fairly soon! Now, while the Russians have been proposing a $100 Million trip to swing aroung the Moon but not land, I'm thinking, multiply that by TEN and you might be able to land customers on the SURFACE!? If it costs $1 Billion to SERIOUSLY be able take a walking/driving tour of parts of the lunar surface, there might yet be SOME who would pay it. But, if so, then do we need to multiply THAT by ten to be talking about covering your own costs to climb Olympus Mons (say) on MARS!? At $10 Billion, we might find no Mars tourists ready to go. But these ten-times-what-I-was-thinking/hoping-for proposals are hunches about what it would cost to FULLY PAY ONE'S SHARE of the flight. But even the Russians do not charge their space tourists the true cost of their part of the trip, I do not think. SO..... Think of how much extra excitement NASA could generate by selling seats to the Moon and Mars at prices SOME COULD ACTUALLY AFFORD!! Say, $100 Million to walk on the Moon and a $Billion or maybe $2 Billion to walk on Mars! At these prices, the tourist seat may not pay much if its own way. But between the notable reduction in cost to the taspayer (by hundreds of millions or billions of dollars!) and the THRILL that the public can share in about the fact that some can actually BUY A TRIP TO THE MOON OR MARS.... This could be a fantastic, win-win proposition! ------------------------- Now, these Moon/Mars tourism proposals are separate from the idea of the Million Mile Per Hour Spacecraft and exploration of the Outer Solar System. One approach with the 1 Million MPH spacecraft and the human exploration of Titan, etc., is to get the public to think about how thrilled it is, sharing in spirit, the Apollo astronauts' journeys to and on the lunar surface. If the many people who love that memory could also be interested in sharing that kind of thrill again! This time, not only of Lunar and Martian exploration, as planned, but: exploration of the breath-taking worlds in our Outer Solar System! The public can share this thrill with the astronauts who actually get to do it. If the public would like this strongly enough, the public can have this excitement! |
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Who Would Pay $2 BILLION for a vacation on Mars?
No, I am not paying $2.0E09 for a trip to Mars. Check out these 2 Mars
QTVR links: http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen3/f2_mars4.html http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen5/...rest-mars.html Would you pay that much for a trip to a dust bowl? Bon Voyage !!! TWV. http://travelworldvideos.googlepages.com/ On Jul 22, 4:17*pm, giveitawhirl2008 wrote: On Jul 21, 7:33*am, BradGuth wrote: On Jul 20, 9:17*pm, giveitawhirl2008 wrote: On Jul 20, 10:40*pm, BradGuth wrote: On Jul 20, 5:10*pm, giveitawhirl2008 wrote: Let them check out: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.policy/topics Is that $2 BILLION per ticket some kind of a cheap group rate? (possibly one-way?) *~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth BG / “Guth Usenet” Hopefully not one way! Not intentionally! But that's $2 Billion PER SEAT! Some people could coff that up! And I do not find it absurd that some of those WOULD! I agree, although each two-way ticket might have to run at least $10B. *~ BG- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Well, you might be right because even at $10 Billion the seat may not be paying for itself, fully. Maybe it would actually have to cost $20 Billion to pay for itself. I was originally thinking $2 Billion because, high as that is, it sounds like something a few could afford and might even be willing to fork over for the chance to go to MARS. But I was also thinking, maybe I should be multiplying these prices by a factor of TEN if customers are REALLY going to "carry their weight" as to the cost of the total flight. I've even been thinking (casually, with some but not a full amount of research): With the true cost of a Soyuz launch possibly as low as $150 Million - and upping this to $200 Million to cover contingencies and allow a moderate profit margin - that: The Russians could fly EXTRA Soyuz missions that are not part of their normal space program, which would NOT need to go to the ISS but just orbit the Earth one to several times and return. With ONE professional cosomonaut and TWO PAYING passengers, this could be at $100 million per seat. One consideration: would the Russians have to build extra hardware or could they just use existing hardware? If they need to build EXTRA stuff, this might up the price unreasonably. But at $100 Million for a trip to orbit, I think your James Cameron types might fo for it. It's either: pay only $20 Million to go the ISS but get in a line that's already out the door, and therefore you may never go, OR, get in the SHORT LINE - the $100 Million Line! THEN you actually get to GO...and fairly soon! Now, while the Russians have been proposing a $100 Million trip to swing aroung the Moon but not land, I'm thinking, multiply that by TEN and you might be able to land customers on the SURFACE!? If it costs $1 Billion to SERIOUSLY be able take a walking/driving tour of parts of the lunar surface, there might yet be SOME who would pay it. But, if so, then do we need to multiply THAT by ten to be talking about covering your own costs to climb Olympus Mons (say) on MARS!? At $10 Billion, we might find no Mars tourists ready to go. But these ten-times-what-I-was-thinking/hoping-for proposals are hunches about what it would cost to FULLY PAY ONE'S SHARE of the flight. But even the Russians do not charge their space tourists the true cost of their part of the trip, I do not think. SO..... Think of how much extra excitement NASA could generate by selling seats to the Moon and Mars at prices SOME COULD ACTUALLY AFFORD!! Say, $100 Million to walk on the Moon and a $Billion or maybe $2 Billion to walk on Mars! At these prices, the tourist seat may not pay much if its own way. But between the notable reduction in cost to the taspayer (by hundreds of millions or billions of dollars!) and the THRILL that the public can share in about the fact that some can actually BUY A TRIP TO THE MOON OR MARS.... This could be a fantastic, win-win proposition! ------------------------- Now, these Moon/Mars tourism proposals are separate from the idea of the Million Mile Per Hour Spacecraft and exploration of the Outer Solar System. One approach with the 1 Million MPH spacecraft and the human exploration of Titan, etc., is to get the public to think about how thrilled it is, sharing in spirit, the Apollo astronauts' journeys to and on the lunar surface. If the many people who love that memory could also be interested in sharing that kind of thrill again! This time, not only of Lunar and Martian exploration, as planned, but: exploration of the breath-taking worlds in our Outer Solar System! The public can share this thrill with the astronauts who actually get to do it. If the public would like this strongly enough, the public can have this excitement! |
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Who Would Pay $2 BILLION for a vacation on Mars?
On Jul 22, 1:17*pm, giveitawhirl2008
wrote: On Jul 21, 7:33*am, BradGuth wrote: On Jul 20, 9:17*pm, giveitawhirl2008 wrote: On Jul 20, 10:40*pm, BradGuth wrote: On Jul 20, 5:10*pm, giveitawhirl2008 wrote: Let them check out: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.policy/topics Is that $2 BILLION per ticket some kind of a cheap group rate? (possibly one-way?) *~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth BG / “Guth Usenet” Hopefully not one way! Not intentionally! But that's $2 Billion PER SEAT! Some people could coff that up! And I do not find it absurd that some of those WOULD! I agree, although each two-way ticket might have to run at least $10B. *~ BG- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Well, you might be right because even at $10 Billion the seat may not be paying for itself, fully. Maybe it would actually have to cost $20 Billion to pay for itself. I was originally thinking $2 Billion because, high as that is, it sounds like something a few could afford and might even be willing to fork over for the chance to go to MARS. But I was also thinking, maybe I should be multiplying these prices by a factor of TEN if customers are REALLY going to "carry their weight" as to the cost of the total flight. I've even been thinking (casually, with some but not a full amount of research): With the true cost of a Soyuz launch possibly as low as $150 Million - and upping this to $200 Million to cover contingencies and allow a moderate profit margin - that: The Russians could fly EXTRA Soyuz missions that are not part of their normal space program, which would NOT need to go to the ISS but just orbit the Earth one to several times and return. With ONE professional cosomonaut and TWO PAYING passengers, this could be at $100 million per seat. One consideration: would the Russians have to build extra hardware or could they just use existing hardware? If they need to build EXTRA stuff, this might up the price unreasonably. But at $100 Million for a trip to orbit, I think your James Cameron types might fo for it. It's either: pay only $20 Million to go the ISS but get in a line that's already out the door, and therefore you may never go, OR, get in the SHORT LINE - the $100 Million Line! THEN you actually get to GO...and fairly soon! Now, while the Russians have been proposing a $100 Million trip to swing aroung the Moon but not land, I'm thinking, multiply that by TEN and you might be able to land customers on the SURFACE!? If it costs $1 Billion to SERIOUSLY be able take a walking/driving tour of parts of the lunar surface, there might yet be SOME who would pay it. But, if so, then do we need to multiply THAT by ten to be talking about covering your own costs to climb Olympus Mons (say) on MARS!? At $10 Billion, we might find no Mars tourists ready to go. But these ten-times-what-I-was-thinking/hoping-for proposals are hunches about what it would cost to FULLY PAY ONE'S SHARE of the flight. But even the Russians do not charge their space tourists the true cost of their part of the trip, I do not think. SO..... Think of how much extra excitement NASA could generate by selling seats to the Moon and Mars at prices SOME COULD ACTUALLY AFFORD!! Say, $100 Million to walk on the Moon and a $Billion or maybe $2 Billion to walk on Mars! At these prices, the tourist seat may not pay much if its own way. But between the notable reduction in cost to the taspayer (by hundreds of millions or billions of dollars!) and the THRILL that the public can share in about the fact that some can actually BUY A TRIP TO THE MOON OR MARS.... This could be a fantastic, win-win proposition! ------------------------- Now, these Moon/Mars tourism proposals are separate from the idea of the Million Mile Per Hour Spacecraft and exploration of the Outer Solar System. One approach with the 1 Million MPH spacecraft and the human exploration of Titan, etc., is to get the public to think about how thrilled it is, sharing in spirit, the Apollo astronauts' journeys to and on the lunar surface. If the many people who love that memory could also be interested in sharing that kind of thrill again! This time, not only of Lunar and Martian exploration, as planned, but: exploration of the breath-taking worlds in our Outer Solar System! The public can share this thrill with the astronauts who actually get to do it. If the public would like this strongly enough, the public can have this excitement! Technically we can do damn near anything. However practically we can not seem to keep our rabbis and a number of others in line, much less afford to fix what we've broken as is. What we need are cheap trips to/from a nearby planet that has unlimited local energy, a bit less gravity than Earth, a much thicker and thus protective and otherwise buoyant atmosphere, plus of course having all the raw elements easily obtainable, such as Venus. Brad Guth, Brad_Guth, Brad.Guth, BradGuth, BG / “Guth Usenet” |
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Who Would Pay $2 BILLION for a vacation on Mars?
On Jul 27, 2:15*pm, travelworldvideos
wrote: No, I am not paying $2.0E09 for a trip to Mars. Check out these 2 Mars QTVR links: http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen3/f2_mars4.html http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen5/...rest-mars.html Would you pay that much for a trip to a dust bowl? Bon Voyage !!! TWV.http://travelworldvideos.googlepages.com/ On Jul 22, 4:17*pm, giveitawhirl2008 wrote: On Jul 21, 7:33*am, BradGuth wrote: On Jul 20, 9:17*pm, giveitawhirl2008 wrote: On Jul 20, 10:40*pm, BradGuth wrote: On Jul 20, 5:10*pm, giveitawhirl2008 wrote: Let them check out: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.policy/topics Is that $2 BILLION per ticket some kind of a cheap group rate? (possibly one-way?) *~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth BG / “Guth Usenet” Hopefully not one way! Not intentionally! But that's $2 Billion PER SEAT! Some people could coff that up! And I do not find it absurd that some of those WOULD! I agree, although each two-way ticket might have to run at least $10B.. *~ BG- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Well, you might be right because even at $10 Billion the seat may not be paying for itself, fully. Maybe it would actually have to cost $20 Billion to pay for itself. I was originally thinking $2 Billion because, high as that is, it sounds like something a few could afford and might even be willing to fork over for the chance to go to MARS. But I was also thinking, maybe I should be multiplying these prices by a factor of TEN if customers are REALLY going to "carry their weight" as to the cost of the total flight. I've even been thinking (casually, with some but not a full amount of research): With the true cost of a Soyuz launch possibly as low as $150 Million - and upping this to $200 Million to cover contingencies and allow a moderate profit margin - that: The Russians could fly EXTRA Soyuz missions that are not part of their normal space program, which would NOT need to go to the ISS but just orbit the Earth one to several times and return. With ONE professional cosomonaut and TWO PAYING passengers, this could be at $100 million per seat. One consideration: would the Russians have to build extra hardware or could they just use existing hardware? If they need to build EXTRA stuff, this might up the price unreasonably. But at $100 Million for a trip to orbit, I think your James Cameron types might fo for it. It's either: pay only $20 Million to go the ISS but get in a line that's already out the door, and therefore you may never go, OR, get in the SHORT LINE - the $100 Million Line! THEN you actually get to GO...and fairly soon! Now, while the Russians have been proposing a $100 Million trip to swing aroung the Moon but not land, I'm thinking, multiply that by TEN and you might be able to land customers on the SURFACE!? If it costs $1 Billion to SERIOUSLY be able take a walking/driving tour of parts of the lunar surface, there might yet be SOME who would pay it. But, if so, then do we need to multiply THAT by ten to be talking about covering your own costs to climb Olympus Mons (say) on MARS!? At $10 Billion, we might find no Mars tourists ready to go. But these ten-times-what-I-was-thinking/hoping-for proposals are hunches about what it would cost to FULLY PAY ONE'S SHARE of the flight. But even the Russians do not charge their space tourists the true cost of their part of the trip, I do not think. SO..... Think of how much extra excitement NASA could generate by selling seats to the Moon and Mars at prices SOME COULD ACTUALLY AFFORD!! Say, $100 Million to walk on the Moon and a $Billion or maybe $2 Billion to walk on Mars! At these prices, the tourist seat may not pay much if its own way. But between the notable reduction in cost to the taspayer (by hundreds of millions or billions of dollars!) and the THRILL that the public can share in about the fact that some can actually BUY A TRIP TO THE MOON OR MARS.... This could be a fantastic, win-win proposition! ------------------------- Now, these Moon/Mars tourism proposals are separate from the idea of the Million Mile Per Hour Spacecraft and exploration of the Outer Solar System. One approach with the 1 Million MPH spacecraft and the human exploration of Titan, etc., is to get the public to think about how thrilled it is, sharing in spirit, the Apollo astronauts' journeys to and on the lunar surface. If the many people who love that memory could also be interested in sharing that kind of thrill again! This time, not only of Lunar and Martian exploration, as planned, but: exploration of the breath-taking worlds in our Outer Solar System! The public can share this thrill with the astronauts who actually get to do it. If the public would like this strongly enough, the public can have this excitement!- Hide quoted text - Would you pay that much for a trip to a dust bowl? Bon Voyage !!! I think some people would who are multi-billionaires. Not an awful lot of those. But even many people of the general public get excited about space tourists who get to go to space NOW. There would be more excitement over just knowing someone bought themselves a tour of MARS! |
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Who Would Pay $2 BILLION for a vacation on Mars?
On Jul 28, 11:20*am, giveitawhirl2008
wrote: On Jul 27, 2:15*pm, travelworldvideos wrote: No, I am not paying $2.0E09 for a trip to Mars. Check out these 2 Mars QTVR links: http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen3/f2_mars4.html http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen5/...rest-mars.html Would you pay that much for a trip to a dust bowl? Bon Voyage !!! TWV.http://travelworldvideos.googlepages.com/ On Jul 22, 4:17*pm, giveitawhirl2008 wrote: On Jul 21, 7:33*am, BradGuth wrote: On Jul 20, 9:17*pm, giveitawhirl2008 wrote: On Jul 20, 10:40*pm, BradGuth wrote: On Jul 20, 5:10*pm, giveitawhirl2008 wrote: Let them check out: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.policy/topics Is that $2 BILLION per ticket some kind of a cheap group rate? (possibly one-way?) *~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth BG / “Guth Usenet” Hopefully not one way! Not intentionally! But that's $2 Billion PER SEAT! Some people could coff that up! And I do not find it absurd that some of those WOULD! I agree, although each two-way ticket might have to run at least $10B. |
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