Are they actually going to the moon if they are only going to orbit it? Sorry my English isn’t the best
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#22The director obviously has to be Jim Cameron if his health holds up.
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#23Wouldn't it be easier to train astronauts to be artists than to train artists to be astronauts?
- Not sure why they would need to be "trained" astronauts.
- Easy doesn't seem to have any place here.
- It sounds like bringing in diversity of perspective is a large priority here, and starting with trained astronauts would severely constrain that.
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#24Are they actually going to the moon if they are only going to orbit it? Sorry my English isn’t the best
They aren't going to actually orbit the moon, they're going around the moon. It's called a "free return trajectory".
This is actually less than Apollo 8 did (edit: only talking about the orbit): Apollo 8 actually went into lunar orbit with a burn, and then left lunar orbit with another burn.
However, this is using "orbit" in its formal sense. Most people would look at the diagram of the spaceship flying around the moon and call it an "orbit". I'm not going to tell them that they're wrong to say that.
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#25This guy is only worth $3B, he may be spending half of his entire net worth to make this happen. I hope he inspires the richest billionaires of the world to fund such lofty ventures.
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#26As others have said, this is way better than anything I had anticipated this private citizen arrangement to be. What a wonderful way to kick off human space travel round 2!
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#27Wouldn't it be easier to train astronauts to be artists than to train artists to be astronauts?
Can you even train artistic talent? Doesn't it require a natural gift that you're born with? Not to belittle astronauts, but space travel training is more teachable than true art.
>> Can you even train artistic talent?
Yes. 100%. It's a muscle you train.
>> Doesn't it require a natural gift that you're born with?
It helps a lot, but from my experience having parents who can support you with lessons and prop you up well into your 20s is a bigger factor to being a successful artist.
>> Not to belittle astronauts, but space travel training is more teachable than true art.
In my mind it's much harder to be an astronaut than an artist, excluding extremely elite painters and musicians. And I doubt most artists would disagree with this.
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#28This guy is only worth $3B, he may be spending half of his entire net worth to make this happen. I hope he inspires the richest billionaires of the world to fund such lofty ventures.
$10M-$20M is more than sufficient for a few generations (in a 100-200 years, our current understanding of the concept of money might not even be relevant, so it's pointless to plan for anything more than that). Anything more is just throwaway cash IMO. If you had the opportunity to become the first private citizen to go to the moon, you'd be stupid to not cement your legacy like that.
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#29Wouldn't it be easier to train astronauts to be artists than to train artists to be astronauts?
Not as easy as you'd think.
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#30Astounding.
I don’t care what you have to say about Elon Musk’s flaws; he’s the most inspirational human to have lived in the past fifty years.
I am unabashedly a SpaceX fanboy.