curmudgeon
[kəːˈmʌdʒ(ə)n]
NOUN
a bad-tempered person, especially an old one.
Wouldn't it be cheaper and just as realistic to ride the Mission Space ride at Disney World and then you can go out and get a churro. What a waste both of money and this space to talk about these idiots. Tom Tusser and P T Barnum were right.
No it wouldn't. Going into orbit requires speeds of up to 20 times the speed of sound. I have been on them Disney rides in Orlando. They don't even come close.
(If you just want to get into orbit around the Earth, you need to reach speeds of at least 4.9 miles per second, or about 17,600 miles per hour. If you want to completely escape Earth's gravity and travel to another moon or planet, though, you need to be going even faster - at a speed of at least 7 miles per second or about 25,000 miles per hour.)
“No it wouldn’t. Going into orbit requires speeds of up to 20 times the speed of sound. I have been on them Disney rides in Orlando. They don’t even come close.”
They also don’t smear your body all over the seat. I’ve been in a F15 at a few G’s and it was rough. A spacecraft leaving the surface of Earth, for example, needs to be going about 11 kilometers (7 miles) per second, or over 40,000 kilometers per hour (25,000 miles per hour), to enter orbit.
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/k-4/features/F_Escape_Velocity.html
I, and a few in that list of people wanting to do this, am not young. It would take a trowel to put me back together again. I just can’t quite see why I should pay $55M to hammer myself to a seat.
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