ems@amdahl.UUCP (ems) (02/04/86)
> > Are you seriously implying that most people would turn down a chance to > > go to space even if it cost 100 dollars? Personally, I think there > > are many people who would think money was no object, they would > > pay more just to get a chance for a ride. People already > > pay 100s of dollars for short plane trips > > I think your analogy with planes is stretched (charitably > speaking). I pay $200 for a plane trip not for the trip, but to get > from point A to point B. The trip itself usually is not even > particularly enjoyable. > > There would probably be a brief spate of people willing to pay > whatever it takes, tapering off to a trickle. In a decade or two such > trips will be as commonplace and boring as plane rides are now. (My > prediction only!) Hmmm. Maybe you are right. In the beginning we had barnstormers giving rides that went nowhere; from it grew commercial airlines that went somewhere... I always wanted to go barnstorming ... BTW, every day in San Francisco folks pay a large sum for helecopter rides that go nowhere. Ditto for Hawaii. The cost of a chopper is measured in HUNDREDS of dollars per hour. The price for the rides? I don't know, but to recover costs it ought to be in the hundreds range... -- E. Michael Smith ...!{hplabs,ihnp4,amd,nsc}!amdahl!ems This is the obligatory disclaimer of everything.