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Topic: Astronaut Wanted. One way trip. (Read 1149 times)
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CompanyMan
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This could be Recreation Lounge fodder, it is somewhat comical, and scientific! About a month ago (September 14), the Calgary, Alberta edition of Craigslist ran an ad (since removed) under Transportation Jobs, titled ASTRONAUT NEEDED (NORTHERN ALBERTA).
I’ve found a picture of the actual ad. Click on it again to enlarge.
The advertisement’s author said that he required someone “no taller than 5 feet 10 inches,” “relatively slim,” and “mentally sound” for an “experimental flight to Titan.”
This experimental flight represented “the result of my professional experience and imagination while serving the U.S. military in advanced aeronautics as a scientist working on this project for near 40 years.”
The spacecraft, he promised, featured “a revolutionary propulsion system and its fuselage is fabricated with the most advanced material.”
The job pays $25,000, and the successful applicant will get to see the solar system. There is a catch, though, and a big one. The proposed flight to Saturn’s moon is a one-way trip.
The advertisement’s author wrote: “I am certain you will make it safely to Titan but there will not be enough fuel to get home. This is for someone unique that has always wanted to see the universe first-hand and has perhaps a terminal view on life here at home. Here’s your shot at romantic history.”
No news yet on whether anyone volunteered, or on whether the alleged project actually exists in a remotely practicable form.
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CompanyMan
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Not that I wish to see em' go but I figured SM'ed be all over this!  |
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Thedus
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So here's a question: how long is this supposed trip to Titan? And how large is the craft? It would need ample storage space for food, and water. ...And lets not forget CO2 scrubbers and the extra filters... Call me a skeptic but...
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Not that I wish to see em' go but I figured SM'ed be all over this! Don't lie - you'd love to see me go! And I'd love to oblige. It's the 'not coming back' that is slightly concerning...  |
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deezelboy
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Hmmm... Nice easy experimental flight to the Moon, with enough storage space for fuel for the return trip, or one-way rocket ship to Titan! |
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Thedus
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There's also the mind-numbing months of absolutely nothing happening! Great, you see Mars... and then what? Wait for the asteroid belt and pray you don't get clobbered by a floating boulder... and then wait again.
The entire trip would be nothing more than extreme exercise of patience... provided you lived long enough to actually see anything.
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BlackWatch
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What would the travel time be? Three or four years? No way it's feasible with current technology.
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Thedus
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It's not. Which is why I doubt the "astronaut" would survive to even see Titan. And if he did make it he'd be stark raving mad from boredom!
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BlackWatch
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Reminds me of an episode of Ren and Stimpy. Space madness!!! Hmmm... wonder if that's on YouTube.... Hell yeah it is: |
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« Last Edit: October 20, 2009, 01:07:50 PM by Hicks »
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CompanyMan
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Space cabbage, and Stimpy get the flap!
I just wonder how many people he paid the $ 25,000 to that never showed back up for launch.
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BlackWatch
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Maybe it was a 'half now, half when you get there' kind of deal.  |
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CompanyMan
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I would think in these harsh economic times that the economy of Saturn's moons would be in real decline.
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Eet is not I who am crazy... eet is I who am MAAAADDDD!!!
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Reminds me of an episode of Ren and Stimpy. Space madness!!! Oddly, it reminds me of something completely different.  |
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"The experiment requires that you continue."
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Yeah, I'm moving this one to Recreation  |
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Viva La Cucaracha!
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