Hi,

I was thinking recently..do you think we'll ever be able (that is, middle-class or lower-middle-class) citizens (i.e. your typical american) be able to go to space on a "trip" without having to become an astronaut in our current lifetime? (I'm 30)

It kinda depresses me a little bit that I've just realized that's one thing I'll probably never experience in my life..to see the earth from the 'other side'

Hey Pink,

I've contemplated this question often. I remeber when the "big trip" for Senior week was to go down to the shore for a week. I can truly picture (in about 40 years) kids trying to persuade their parents to let them "go to the moon" for a week or flying off to Mars for a weekend. I could picture the conversation between the teenager and the parent on the com-link.

Tennager: "Hey Dad, could I head out with my friends after graduation tonight?

Father: Sure son. Where are you headed?

Tennager: Umm, well....Ted's already got a ticket for me to Mars. His Dad's got a place near Olympus Mons and I was wondering....

Father: (Intervening before his son can finish) Not on your life. I told you, I would let you go to Hawaii or even to Copernicus on the Moon, but NO MARS!!!!!

Teenager: Awww DAD!!! C'mon man......

Anyway, not to get off the subject but I think it is a small possibility that we will see it before our time is up (I'm 38). However, I do feel that our children will definetly be tourists to the moon. And our grandchildren may take weekend trips to Mars.

Lol..yeah..i've thought about that kid to parent scenario too! lol..haha that was funny bro..

well, i just hope before I'm gone, I at least get to just get in orbit. I would be satisfied with at least that. going to the moon would be AMAZING or Mars, even better..but I doubt I'd be alive for something like that, of course, Project Constellation is supposed to happen 2020, so that isn't too far off.

In mid 3000, we'll see celebs "planet hopping" i'm sure... :)

And who else bought real estate on the moon some years ago...

 And who else paid money and had some stars named after them...

And who else thinks its a good idea to patent the air space/ atmosphere of another planet/star...

Well,

By this time in the year of 2008 I had envisioned all sorts of things that have not come to pass.  I mean, I should be hopping about the Moon, colonizing Mars, and then at the end of the day drinking Titanian spring water chilled by Saturnian ring ice.

Good luck in you dreams and ambitions for space tourism, perhaps later generations will be able to roam where only my imagination can go.

L

Don't talk silly you...

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chuck norris once lived on mars...

 that's why theres no signs of life there.

I'm guessing that mars had very colourful fauna species {as infra red refraction produces light conjucive for photosynthesis= which is green} and had resilient palm tree species which may have been the latter of the fauna species existing. It would be probable to suggest that looking for evidence of the fauna kingdom, we should expect some sort of result with that particular strain. It may be that because plants recycle carbon dioxide the proximity of the plants retrograde may connect via solar wind stimulation and magnetosphere integration to produce some sort of virus that spawns photosythetic stimulus. Hey, thats a bit sci fi, but, gamma rays and air bourne viruses are very real.

Traces of sediment may show us 'AMBER' which is fauna residue and a very good fossil specimen for the preservation of insects and fauna.

That must perhaps represent the most significant martian exploration.

Do viruses travel in a vacuum?

Perhaps its obvious they do, thats how stars form.

You're smart ^

NormanCopeland:

And who else paid money and had some stars named after them...

While I've never paid $$ for a star to be named after me, I personally know two different young ladies who had stars named after them by the guys in their lives.  Kinda romantic, huh ladies? 

NormanCopeland:

I'm guessing that mars had very colourful fauna species {as infra red refraction produces light conjucive for photosynthesis= which is green} and had resilient palm tree species which may have been the latter of the fauna species existing. It would be probable to suggest that looking for evidence of the fauna kingdom, we should expect some sort of result with that particular strain. It may be that because plants recycle carbon dioxide the proximity of the plants retrograde may connect via solar wind stimulation and magnetosphere integration to produce some sort of virus that spawns photosythetic stimulus. Hey, thats a bit sci fi, but, gamma rays and air bourne viruses are very real.

Traces of sediment may show us 'AMBER' which is fauna residue and a very good fossil specimen for the preservation of insects and fauna.

Um......maybe you have your definitions mixed up ?

Fauna = animals

Flora  =  plants

Thank you...

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Astronomers could attach telescopes to the top of them {with automatic positioning} when its cloudy.

pinkwarrior235:

Hi,

I was thinking recently..do you think we'll ever be able (that is, middle-class or lower-middle-class) citizens (i.e. your typical american) be able to go to space on a "trip" without having to become an astronaut in our current lifetime? (I'm 30)

It kinda depresses me a little bit that I've just realized that's one thing I'll probably never experience in my life..to see the earth from the 'other side'

Even if we got the chance to, don't you think the ride would be about a $1,000,000

who's got that kind of money?