On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:42:50 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 17:09:14 -0500, hk wrote:

Calif Bill wrote:
"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:43:04 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
"Reggie is Here wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:08:16 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:

"Would you pay $200,000... "

Errr.

No.
Of course you wouldn't.
I wouldn't either, but if you want to pay for my ticket, I will come
along.
This is what bothers me.

If you have the money, you are healthy enough to do it, why not?

It's the first step to the stars - revel in it.

I'm going to do it - I'm telling you, I'm going to go.

At $200k probably not, at $100k very likely.

For that kind of throw-away money, I can think of a bunch more earthly
pleasures on which to indulge myself.

soapbox

Of course you could - so can I.

But that's here - this is about there.

The real point is to go - to see - to experience - the essence of
seeing something that very few people have gotten to see first hand.

It's the first step to moving beyond this planet and moving to others.

If I can be a part of that - a part of the inevitable move to other
worlds - moving beyond our planet to others, then I'm going to do it.

And I don't give a damn what anybody else thinks.

/soapbox

Maybe, after I've seen Alaska, the Grand Tetons, Monument Valley, the
Petrified Forest and a few other things I've missed. For a few seconds of
weightlessness, one could go to King's Dominion.

Hell, I'd rather give the $200,000 to the local children's hospital.
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Mackerel Snapper