Craigslist Ad Seeks Astronaut for Trip to Titan

[Guest]

I'm considering it. But does the ship have a holodeck, phasers and a shield? I dont want the Borg to stop me from completing the mission.

 

[Guest]

I for one, would think it's a perfect gift from a dying father to his family left behind.
There are plenty of people I know with cancer, that will go sooner or later.
Without proper life insurance this could be a small help for the family to still be able to live a year or two without worries.

though, I think he'd have more success in Africa or Asia, where pilots used to do Kamikaze for honor instead of pay!
They died, and left their family with nothing.

 

[beehew]

I'm in.

 

[roldy]

$25,000...put a 1 and two 0's on the end of that and you got yourself a deal!

 

[Kelavarus]

[citation][nom]ta152h[/nom]On the plus side, you'd have a greater chance of finding intelligent life there than on Earth.[/citation]

I'm... Fairly certain we've already 'found' intelligent life on Earth. 😵?

I mean, not much, but there's some...

 

[lashton]

lol that would be like a 10 year trip one way

 

[krolo]

damn i'm 5'll

 

[nitto555rchallenger]

Just called my life insurance company and they told me that death in space isn't cover in the plan...

 

[arrghushakaboorga]

Hmmm... let's see. No other jobs available anywhere? This pays money? Hmmm. I'm in

 

[arrghushakaboorga]

[citation][nom]uh_no[/nom]what is 25k worth in space cash?[/citation]
Silly, space cash only has a value that you assign to it. What we really need to do is take a pinewood derby car and discover warp speed

 

[one-shot]

[citation][nom]doomtomb[/nom]Right, because you can surely believe everything you read on the internet.[/citation]

I believe everything on the internet. My Nigerian friends(they're almost family) would never lie to me, as long as I send them money.

 

[will_chellam]

phasers are a good idea - but it sounds like there are enough things that could go wrong even without a holodeck.if startrek has taught us one thing - holodecks are asking for trouble.

 

[archange]

The man says he served the U.S. military in advanced aeronatautics as a scientist and spent the better part of forty years working on this machine

So, I guess, the craft is roughly 40 yars old now... xD

 

[anamaniac]

[citation][nom]ta152h[/nom]Titan is a lot like Earth, although colder. Methane rivers and rain. I've often wondered why the methane just doesn't burn up, especially since there is lightning. Must be too cold. But, if you could land there, and find a way to create breathable air, you'd have an endless amount of fuel to keep warm.On the plus side, you'd have a greater chance of finding intelligent life there than on Earth. Also, you might get to fly by Jupiter, and get charged up by the magnetosphere (it's probably very invigorating, if you're a hydrogen ion) You'd get to see Saturn's rings pretty close. But, most likely, you'd be kissing Uranus good bye when you plunged into Titan. This guy built the rocket, but he didn't mention anything about a really warm coat. I'm not going there without it[/citation]
Might not be burning because of a lack of oxygen.

 

[enforcer22]

[citation][nom]Kelavarus[/nom]I'm... Fairly certain we've already 'found' intelligent life on Earth. 😵?I mean, not much, but there's some...[/citation]

Yeah dolphins and chimps are pretty smart.

 

[jgiron]

Titan is like sooo last year.

 

[jellico]

While it's an interesting idea to solicit the terminally ill for a one-way exploratory mission in space, there is a fundamental problem. Unless their "revolutionary propulsion system" is a warp drive (or some other non-Euclidean space form of propulsion), then the probability is that the person would be dead.

When we went to the moon, it took 4 days to get there. That's a speed of about 1200 m/s. Saturn is about 1.4x10^12 meters from Earth, so at that speed it would take about 40 years to get there. Ok, assuming this drive could applied nominal thrust for the entire time (i.e. it's nuclear powered and won't run out of fuel), then you could reduce the trip time to around 10 - 15 years (optimally, the ship would be constantly accelerating to a bit more than half-way there, then reverse direction and apply braking thrust for a bit less than half the trip, fly around Saturn to finish the braking maneuver and then settle into a parking orbit around Titan). The problem is that terminally ill people seldomly live that long, and we don't have any sort of suspended animation technology.

 

[bill gates is your daddy]

Titan?? Aww man. I don't want to go there.

Now if he would send me to Europa I would be all over it. I don't take kindly to some bitch-ass alien telling me where I can and cannot land.

 

[obsidian86]

hope there is peanuts and an in flight movie

 

[nelson_nel]

Well, this was obviously news worthy... Funny though.