How would you like a roundtrip to the moon for a hundred million dollars?
Definitely, who wouldn't want a trip to the moon? Imagine the following benefits:
a. becoming history's first lunar tourists;
b. the chance to be closer to your inner wildthings than anybody else;
c. be one of the passengers of the world's most reliable spacecraft, the Soyuz; and
d. the chance to find out how it is to be really departed from your dear ones (no more naggers
Well, of course you can also discount the following disadvantages:
a. becoming part of a big experiment on finding out what happens to tourists if they are sent to the moon;
b. undergo a training like every other astronaut and would-be astronauts. I don't really have an idea but they say it always gets closer to hell;
c. of course, lose a hundred million dollars on the process which could have been your best car ever or your tenth trip around the world with all the luxury; and
d. I think you'll be spending more time photographing Earth that way, Earth is more beautiful isn't it?
Somehow, the point gets to the fact that man really had exceeded his grasp. When Verne introduced the cannonball idea of getting into the moon, he was really not joking that time. He really did introduced us to a way. And now, years and years later (I'm no historian, go to Wikipedia if you wanna know), he had gotten us into sending tourists there. And by the way, this space-spending spree for the "lucky few" will happen around 2008 or 2009. Start saving your dimes, kids, but oh sorry - I think this limited-time offer will be sold out before Christmas 2006. Yeah, try counting those autocratic dictators all around the world. They love travels and spending. And to think that only 27 people in history had ever made it to the moon, you would love to be number 28 and so forth!
It's like a Boeing trip. Not really. But of course, you'll be training for it. I don't wanna be rude, but hey, should be then that those Bin Laden suiciders be planning terrorist activities again, they would drive it straight to the moon :) .
I've started saving now - at least for that witch broom in auction house. I have no 100 million dollars neither any hi-tech camera. Now, that's yours, you lucky bums! If moon travel is really that easy nowadays, we'll be seeing Martian Winter Games in the near future or Lunar Sea Games at that.
Read more of it here. Or just buy that Jules Verne book from Amazon (if it still is sold). That would give more inspiration than casual daydreamings.
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