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From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (ems)
Newsgroups: net.space
Subject: Re: Joy rides - Barnstorming reborn?
Message-ID: <2734@amdahl.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Feb-86 20:27:38 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  3 20:27:38 1986
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Organization: Circle C Shellfish Ranch, Shores-of-the-Pacific, Ca
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Summary: Barnstorming in space!!

> > 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

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