Weightless for 20 seconds

Discussion in 'Free Thoughts' started by one_raven, Jun 21, 2007.

  1. one_raven God is a Chinese Whisper Valued Senior Member

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    What would you pay?

    If there was a "ride" you could go on (not a parabolic flight, a ride fixed to the ground like a roller coaster) that allowed you to feel the sensation of weightlessness for 20 seconds, what would you pay to get on that ride?
     
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  3. shorty_37 Go! Canada Go! Registered Senior Member

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    not alot
     
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  5. EmptyForceOfChi Banned Banned

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    an airport in london (forgot wich one) is opening a space runway/launch thing. and you pay for some weightless flight time, i forget howlong, and i forget howmuch it costs, but i think its around 90-100k.

    wow that was a useless post wasnt it, but in reply to your Q i would pay around £500 i guess. but only if it went up in space.



    edit- if it didnt go up in space then i would pay around £40 i guess, its hard to say actualy, it depends on the tech used and how expensive it is to run. but i would love to do it, and if they charged alot i would pay out if it seemed worth it.

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  7. one_raven God is a Chinese Whisper Valued Senior Member

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    These guys do that - I don't know what they charge, though.
     
  8. one_raven God is a Chinese Whisper Valued Senior Member

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    ...or 30 or 40 seconds...
     
  9. fishtail Registered Senior Member

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    I would pay £1 a minute.
     
  10. one_raven God is a Chinese Whisper Valued Senior Member

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    I'm thinking that it will cost in the neighborhood of $5 million to build.
    I'm wondering if the costs could be recouped.
     
  11. EmptyForceOfChi Banned Banned

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    i would 100% try it out, and if i thought it was worth it i would do it many more times, if i could stay up for over 3-4 mins that would be a dream come true,

    me and my friend would pay nicely to be able to have a weightless fight, dragonball z style.


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  12. te jen Registered Senior Member

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    If someone could create a gravity-free zone at the surface of the earth - say a sphere 10 meters in diameter - people would pay PLENTY for the experience. It's the universal human dream. I'd pay $10US a minute for something like that if the time was open-ended, and I'd figure out a way to scrape together $100000US if I could buy one of my own.

    I think a more likely technological scenario would be to forget about the physical experience itself, but rather to envision some sort of Matrix-like brain/machine interface that would allow you to ditch the human body's senses and substitute a virtual reality indistinguishable from (and likely in many ways superior to) the real thing.
     
  13. domesticated om Stickler for details Valued Senior Member

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    20 seconds of weightlessness sounds kinda cool - although hanging out in a quazi-weightless swimming pool also has its perks

    The 'anti grav' room would likely involve waiting in a long line, then finally getting a brief few moments to float around a room among the kind of people you see when you go to museums & amusement parks (families, children, tourists, retirees, etc). I guess riding the vomit comet may also be a rewarding experience.

    The swimming pool --- there's probably no line. I hang out for a few hours at a time, and have more control over the kind of people I want to float around....... sun baked adults in bathing suits (preferably women wearing bikinis)-- If I'm at the right place, then I can order a drink while I'm there

    I would avoid spending money on the brief antigrav experience, but would gladly spend a hundred dollars at the pool
     
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  14. apendrapew Oral defecator Registered Senior Member

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    What would I pay? Depends on how much money I have. Right now, I'd pay $20-40 bucks. For 20 minutes, I'd pay $570. That'd be cool to gobble a huge gobblet of Hi-C or water. Like a bubble in the mouth. It'd take a while to think of shit to do with zero gravity. 20 seconds... nah, more like 20 minutes.
     
  15. original sine Registered Senior Member

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    I'd pay one dollar per second, if I could purchase time in blocks of minutes or hours and have the device to myself or those I invite. Or steal a shuttle from a space agency and just leave the planet for the rest of my life.

    Hm...

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