The Cellar - View Single Post - Just how tenuous is our toehold in space?

Undertoad · 12-10-2004, 01:10 PM

The new toehold will be from private entrepreneurs. In my lifetime a trip to outer space will be the price of a theme park all-day ticket and $100,000 will get you an overnighter on the moon.

People should press for infrastructure projects that actually have a long-term return, like cheap high-speed maglev underground city-to-city transit or something. (It has to be cool to be saleable to the public)

12-10-2004, 01:10 PM	#11
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	The new toehold will be from private entrepreneurs. In my lifetime a trip to outer space will be the price of a theme park all-day ticket and $100,000 will get you an overnighter on the moon. People should press for infrastructure projects that actually have a long-term return, like cheap high-speed maglev underground city-to-city transit or something. (It has to be cool to be saleable to the public)