Peter1469 (07-20-2021)
DGUtley (07-20-2021)
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I'd rather lease a condo on a beach somewhere and have years of enjoyment. A large fart could lift you off your bed and have you feel weightlessness for less.
I would not pay for such a trip, even if I had the money. I think Bezos is the least effectual space billionaire. Musk has the right idea. Colonization of Mars.
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More on Jeff Bezos Is Ready to Cross a Cosmically Controversial Line, which goes into the controversy and the Branson/Bezos contest, and adds:
Neither Blue Origin nor Virgin Galactic can put people into orbit around Earth, but the nature of orbits provides a useful way to understand this problem. Imagine you’re a satellite traveling in an elongated orbit around Earth, and your closest approach brings you less than 50 or so miles from the ground. At that point, the atmosphere will assert its presence and drag you down into a fiery plunge. But if your approach takes you above 50 miles, “you will likely survive ’til the next orbit and go around,” McDowell said. At this boundary—which I’m calling the McDowell line—gravitational forces become more important than atmospheric ones.
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Peter1469 (07-20-2021)