Moon tourism

[normandeeley]

Apparently a firm called Space X say they are going to send two paying tourists up to the moon next year.
This will obviously be extremely hazardous and with a fair chance of the craft not making it back.
Given this, I would like to propose Ant and Dec as the first two passengers.

[Sidney1st]

Tony Blair and ABC

[duncandisorderly]

Wallace and Gromit

[IWOODLOVETT]

Owen and Sandy.

[Dyched]

Whats the luggage allowance?

[NottsClaret]

I'd do it, once Ryanair open a route. Maybe £99? Obviously not to the Sea of Tranquility itself, but close enough.

[Chobulous]

Rowls and Imploding Turtle - they can spend all eternity nipping and scratching each other and pulling each other's hair after HAL has woken them up each day.

[Sidney1st]

Rowls and Imploding Turtle - they can spend all eternity nipping and scratching each other and pulling each other's hair after HAL has woken them up each day.

We should make that a reality show.

[box_of_frogs]

I'd love to do that. Seriously!

[Buxtonclaret]

I think there's a dark side to all this.

[Lancasterclaret]

Rowls : The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
IT : The white zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the red zone.
Rowls: [later] The red zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the white zone.
IT : No, the white zone is for loading of passengers and there is no stopping in a RED zone.
Rowls: The red zone has always been for loading and unloading of passengers. There's never stopping in a white zone.
IT : Don't you tell me which zone is for loading, and which zone is for stopping!
Rowls: Listen IT, don't start up with your white zone **** again.
[Later]
Rowls : There's just no stopping in a white zone.
IT : Oh really, Vernon? Why pretend, we both know perfectly well what this is about. You want me to have an abortion.
Rowls: It's really the only sensible thing to do, if its done safely. Therapeutically there's no danger involved.

[Belgianclaret]

Its an Elon Musk company - AKA founding father of PayPal and Tesla

Has money to burn

[john'sroseyspecs]

Has the rocket got the same technology as Tesla's self driving car? If so the passengers might become the first real men in the moon

[bobinho]

On a serious note, I'd love to see the earth from space.

Imagine the feeling as you pulled away, and the most amazing thing we have ever experienced got smaller and smaller.

Think I'll book...

[harpers_perm]

As long as that amateur 'astronaut' Branson isn't involved I'd be tempted.

We all know what happens when Mr big teeth builds one of his rockets.

[1968claret]

Imagine the feeling as you pulled away, and the most amazing thing we have ever experienced got smaller and smaller.

I think I would be calling a doctor

[geopancake]

If this happens I'll plait sawdust.

But I'd like to send Chris Evans and Matt Bacon or that rich farmer from countryside Adam whoever. Bear Grylls, Gary Lineker, Shearer, Sherwood, Paddy What's his face, Bono, him from Police, Kim kardwhatsissyon, Lily Allen, Lady Google, Madonna, Tom Cruise, Bob geldoff, Davina Dodah, Jezza Kyle, anybody from cast corrie, eastenders, or the yorkie one, strictly, anybody who prostitutes themselves reality TV, royalty, heredity peers, and this is just my shortlist.

However Elon will fail miserably.In fact he should be first up there.

[Darthlaw]

That's no moon...

[CombatClaret]

Space X are clever cookies, I follow this kind of stuff with an armchair interest. Utterly incredible that they can boost a payload to the ISS then guide the spend rocket engine to a safe vertical landing on a moving barge in the ocean.

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The orbit to the moon bit isn't really the hard, just no one's been making a rocket big enough to get all the hardware up there in one go since Apollo.

[Flatline]

Space X are clever cookies, I follow this kind of stuff with an armchair interest. Utterly incredible that they can boost a payload to the ISS then guide the spend rocket engine to a safe vertical landing on a moving barge in the ocean.

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The orbit to the moon bit isn't really the hard, just no one's been making a rocket big enough to get all the hardware up there in one go since Apollo.

Proof that NASA are the biggest lying turds going.

[dermotdermot]

Imploding Turtle as trialist astronaut for me. He needs a change of scenery.

[CharlieinNewMexico]

Brian Jensen, because he was always dropping Clangers

[conyoviejo]

"On a serious note, I'd love to see the earth from space"

Take a trip to the the IMAX cinema at Bradford .. Cheap as chips

[LoveCurryPies]

Corbyn & Trump. Communist & Capitalist. Both deluded.

[Wile E Coyote]

the moon is a nearby rock, great that it has been visited, but we need to get far more adventurous. Mars is useless too, ultimately, our species has to be far, far away to avoid destruction when our sun burns out,when it does, the solar system will be destroyed.Mars will be snuffed out immediately.
Problem is, the distances required to be traversed,are incredible. The moon is no more than a fannying about expedition for ultra wealthy morons.

[CombatClaret]

the moon is a nearby rock, great that it has been visited, but we need to get far more adventurous. Mars is useless too, ultimately, our species has to be far, far away to avoid destruction when our sun burns out,when it does, the solar system will be destroyed.Mars will be snuffed out immediately.
Problem is, the distances required to be traversed,are incredible. The moon is no more than a fannying about expedition for ultra wealthy morons.

The sun burns out in 5 billion years, man in it's physical form has been around 200,000 years so we're only 0.004% there. If we do make it that far without destroying ourselves I think we just pat ourselves on the back, stick a museum to our achievements on Pluto and die with dignity having beaten all the odds.

Besides climate change and all associated events (flood, famine), a big old rock hitting us is a more pressing concern. To quote sci-fi author Larry Niven
"The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!"

Proof that NASA are the biggest lying turds going.

NASA just got bloated, as more contractors got involved they push for mission which involve them, presidents come and go with different aims. A private company is more like the NASA of old with one single minded goal, a determined man in charge and a shed load of cash (but no congress to argue or tax payers to please).