I can not understand the social value of yesterday's space trip. A billionaire went on 10 minute space trip and took a few people along. I don't know if he did it for kicks or there was something important about this.
To pay for this for Bezos it is like for me to pay for a subway fare. It is lunch money. They went up, experienced weightlessness, jumped around like kids and returned to earth. What was the meaning of this if not just plain publicity? Is Amazon planning to use this as a new delivery system?
Three billionaires are in competition to see who gets to space first. Virgin Atlantic's Branson, Bezos and Musk are racing against each other to see who will win. Maybe all three will and this will create a space traffic jam.
After this flight they all talked about their space experiences. What experience? At least the billionaire space tourists in the past who went using the Russian rockets stayed at the space stations and worked with the real astronauts up there. And stayed more than ten minutes.
Maybe I too much of a cynic but I see nothing tom cheer about this. Now, if I had gone up there it would have been different.
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