Topic: Holidays on the moon will be possible in a DECADE - but... (Read 1305 times)

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It is not about the beauty it is about the adventure of going to the moon, to go to outer space and being there, if my memory serves my right only twelve people have set foot on the moon, so it will be similar to those that climb the everest as a challenge.

In a decade 8000 will not be only for the rich people. Monthly payments go up with time so many people can afford to go there and have a look. Most of the people of earth are curious to know so they all would like to go and check the moon and make some selfies there.

To see such a price I choose silence, I think this is the rich people can do, and I am far from rich.

A trip to the moon.

Costing £8000.

Sounds like a scam.

 

The cost of reaching the moon is so high.

Even if the moon were made of pure gold.

It would cost more money to reach the gold, than the gold is worth.

Why? Because everybody will want to go the first time, just to see what it is like up there.

At $10,000 a pop, and with 7 billion people in the world, that's $70,000,000,000,000 they will make on the first trip. Then there will always be some who will want to go back. I hope their advertising is good. I might even want to go.

That'd be very great, but why someone want to spend such an amount to visit the moon.
There are so many beautiful and fascinating places you can visit here.

For £8000 I think many people can afford it.

This will be a big business opportunity. I know many companies are working on that. When moon travel becomes popular, the price will go further down.

this is cool, but the spacecraft ticket will make you poor. hahaha just kidding. trip to moon is good if you are millionaire. you can afford the ticket for the tirp to moon if you have lots of money. but for the people in the third world. it is not advisable to do the trip. you will just end up being poor after you go back here in earth.

Not everyone can go to the moon, your body is hard enough

Yes, but the moon is not a gravity free environment. It just has less gravity than earth. 

i don't really care . because gravity free environment is very hazardous to human body. i would not go .

Consumer space travel will probably be more affordable/accessible within ten years but trips to the moon probably won't be, but if they are they'll cost you a lot more than 8k.


Why leave your house and travel the world when you can watch it on your 3D tv? Why get a girlfriend when you can buy a sexdoll or use your hand?



Yeah, nothing special or mind-blowing about witnessing that.

Well if what they send to the moon next year works as intended and only cost $7 million, then they are in for a big payday and that was a very smart investment.

This is why they are doing it:  http://lunar.xprize.org/

Since the moment the astronauts landed on the moon, more people have begun to look forward to seeing the moon. According to the American CNBC television reported, an American private enterprise - "moon express" is planning to let the human change on holiday on the moon as possible. The United States has been approved by the government in August this year, the company launched the lunar spacecraft, this is the history of the United States for the first time approved folk lunar exploration program. Company responsible person intends to launch lunar spacecraft next year, is expected to cost $7 million. However, according to his statement, is expected to achieve human "lunar holiday" in 2026, the per capita cost of the moon is likely to be reduced to $10 thousand.

They were saying things like this back in the 1950s, that by the end of the century, we would have a thriving base on the moon... maybe more than one. Take a look at all the science fiction books from the '50s and '60s that talk about all kinds of space ventures by the end of the '90s.

Of course they lie. But they lie less. The technology is actually making things like this possible.

they said that in 2001 we would spread all across the solar system

they always fail with such deadlines

Many people will go simply because they think that it will be really great. Then they will find that it wasn't all that fulfilling after all. Yet, there will be many who will be drawn into some aspect of space base building, simply because their moon trip whetted their appetite.

I agree, it has the potential for many things and is a great "stepping stone" towards further space exploration.

I just don't see the allure of going to the moon as a vacation destination, which is what the article was referring to.

There is something else intriguing about the moon. The moon is not earth, but it is way closer than anything else.

The wealthy are not jointly into everything government. Government is not on the moon. If the wealthy can start their own moon government, there might be nothing the war mongering governments of earth can do about it.

Think of the logical, peaceful advancement of civilization and science, away from the war mongering governments. Yet, moon is close enough that it will be easy to transport necessities from here, which can't be readily had on the moon right away.

Probably, all the raw materials can be found on the moon. But it will take too much time developing a basic start to just go there without some help from earth. Mars is too far away to do ANYTHING easily. The lighter gravity of the moon will make it a good jumping-into-space point, especially once we get things set up for real manufacturing there. Then, Mars, and beyond.

Probably by the time we are able to colonize Mars in a meaningful way, somebody will have found out how to give people 500 years of life in good health. We won't have to worry about overpopulation, even with longer lives.

Next will come other planets, and by that time we will have found out how to live to one or two thousand years old. Then the universe.