# Somebody Get Me A $100,000 Now!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-get-me-a-100-000-now/121216>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 28, 2002, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-get-me-a-100-000-now/121216 "2002-07-28T08:08:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2002, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-get-me-a-100-000-now/121216/1 "2002-07-28T08:08:04Z")

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Laugh all you want, but the guys who got the dude from N\*SIPID (or whatever they’re called) are selling tickets to space for a mere [$100,000](http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/07/24/cheap.rocket/index.html)! I wanna go, damn it! If I had a house, I’d sell it. Anybody know a fast way to make a $100,000?

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**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2002, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-get-me-a-100-000-now/121216/2 "2002-07-28T08:13:58Z")

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Hell, I thought you wanted a candy bar!

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**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2002, 8:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-get-me-a-100-000-now/121216/3 "2002-07-28T08:22:07Z")

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Yeah, but if you read the article, by the time you recovered from your space sickness you’d be back on the ground.

Also, they’re selling tickets on a semi-spaceship which they haven’t, technically speaking, actually built yet.

_Real_ space travel, the kind where you actually have some hope of staying up there long enough to do something besides upchuck, still costs $20 million bucks a shot, which is just a tad more than your average second mortgage will stretch.

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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2002, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-get-me-a-100-000-now/121216/4 "2002-07-28T08:25:44Z")

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> \*Originally posted by MEBuckner \*  
> \*\*Yeah, but if you read the article, by the time you recovered from your space sickness you’d be back on the ground.
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> Also, they’re selling tickets on a semi-spaceship which they haven’t, technically speaking, actually built yet.
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> _Real_ space travel, the kind where you actually have some hope of staying up there long enough to do something besides upchuck, still costs $20 million bucks a shot, which is just a tad more than your average second mortgage will stretch. \*\*

Feh, just get me up there, that’s all I ask! Then I can kill the pilot, jettison his body and use the extra fuel to go to the Moon! (Hey, it’d work for Bruce Willis, why not me?)