A free trip to space: do you take it?
 

As part of an Amazon Prime promotion, you win a sweepstakes to go on an 11-minute ride up into suborbital space. You also get designer space togs specific to your group.

The other five astronauts on your ride will be:

Kanye West
Kim Kardashian
rob gronkowski
Jake Paul
Justin Bieber

You will spend two intensive weeks with this crew to "train" for your "mission". This will include a lot of posing with the group for selfies and standing in the background while they're being interviewed.

Do you accept the prize? If you turn down the prize, you'll get two years of free Amazon Prime as an alternative.

Do we have to have that group? It'd be more fun to have the first all-bald-head-and-goatee crew on a spaceflight.™

But yes, I'm in. No question.

I would do it, but I would wear earplugs the entire time and I would eat lunch by myself.

Historic!

It's that group or nothing. You don't have the option to wait for the group with The Rock, Bruce Willis, and John Travolta.

Absolutely. Every once in a while I'd throw in a what's your name again?

I would buy a telescope so I didn't have to endure the company.

Can Bill Romanowski be added to the list?

I would not but only because I have kids and going to space is presumably a bit dangerous.

If I didn’t have kids I would definitely risk it.

I think I speak for most of CP when I say I'd rather ride with the celebrities OP listed than you.

I'm a scuba diver and if anything goes wrong at 100+ feet, you're just as dead down there as you'd be at 100 miles up.

So the fear doesn't bother me -- the experience is worth that trade every time.

But man, that particular lot would be annoying as hell. I'd just have to get drunk with Gronk and spend the rest of my waking hours eye-banging Kim. I could make it work.

In.

Would there be any probing?

Holy shit, Rain Man. That group...you do not take any half measures.

Yes, even with those assholes. But Kim will have to be naked while weightless.


Would love to do the vomit comet. Just cant afford it.

But of course! How many times does one get offered a trip to space (astronauts need not apply).

This.

Not just no, but **** no

For what, guys?
You aren’t going to fix anything or save anyone. Or discover anything.

You’re a glorified Titanic expedition.

Free Prime comes with NFl games.

Yes and I would stir the tanks.

I'll take 730 days of Prime.

Yes, easy decision.

If I had endless money I'd try to get a seat. Its a 150k deposit to apply on their website. No idea what the real cost is if you're selected

I went with space is terrifying, and so are the celebs

**** yes I'd go to space. I wouldn't care if I was trapped in a small cabin with Elway, Skip Bayless and my ex-wife. IT'S ****ING SPACE. You get a chance, you go. Duh.

Skip is a tall order

LMAO

Who on board is doing the trajectory math?

Yeah if anything, I'd rationalize spending weeks with Rain Man's group just to get further away from Skip Bayless.

Thanks for polluting another thread with your cancer.

Now that I think about it, another downside of going with that group is that you'd know that 8 billion people are hoping the thing will crash.

No I enjoy living.

I don’t believe in space… mostly kidding. But I wouldn’t want to be on the craft with Kanye. Dude knows some shit about the messed up stuff that goes on with the recording industries shady dealings. He is probably a prime target to be Clinton’d in a “freak accident that killed the whole crew” (but their passports were found at port Canaveral).

Chiefs fandom has prepared me for this these past few years.

I flew the Space Shuttle Simulator at Space Camp for Educators.

yeah, that is the closest I will get to space.

It was fun. Flew the shuttle and stuck the landing!!!!

Theres no such thing as free pie

I can spent 11 minutes with them in a confined space.

I have dealt with that crap every day.

You cant scare me. I teach middle school.

If Kim is naked I'd fill up that barf bag.

Honestly, I'd probably do it just to hang out with Gronk for two weeks. You know he would mercilessly taunt the other celebs.

But those guys would be so much cooler.

I think I'd wait for the next rounds...maybe the Celebrity Boxing round with Screech, Danny Partidge, Horshack, and Tonya Harding. Surely that would be better.

I would rather eat expired gas station sushi from the dumpster lid in Calcutta than travel anywhere near that group.

Biebs and Gronk would be super cool. Jake Paul, Kim K., and Kanye West would be legit ****ing psycho. Kim and Kanye would probably cause the spaceship to crash.


It'd be tough for me because I'd be terrified. I don't do well flying lol.

I wouldn't go to space just to go to space. Is there a reason other than to brag to people that I did? Maybe you could say the profundity of looking back at the blue marble and contemplating the unity of all mankind to the earth.

But I'll pass. Seems too risky a thing to do for the reasons above.

No thank you. Too claustrophobic.

Yes.


1, because space


2, because even thought I can't stand any of those celebrities, I might make some connections that could pay off big in the future

I'm in, but if Stephen A subs for anyone, I'm out.

I guess it's a cool little brag to friends, but I think the entire thing would be pretty amazing... getting immersed in the process and prep (even if it's just a quick trip), being launched into ****ing space, the trip back down... and then of course seeing the Earth from space with your own eyes.

I dunno, I did a glacier hike last year as part of an Alaskan cruise and going in thought it might not be amazing, but it had seriously great reviews (and you'd think there would be a few dumbasses bitching about it being cold or something, or "yeah it's cool but not worth the price", but there was none of that)... and it was worth every penny.

I could see this being similar... might think, so you go up, look, go down... but might be surprised at the awesomeness.

It's a short-lived flight, but astronauts often talk of the Overview Effect, described as a profound sense of awe, wonder, and a new understanding of the interconnectedness of life on Earth. At least a few of the New Shepard "crew" have mentioned something similar, Bill Shatner being one of the more outspoken about it.

It'd be cool to gain that kind of perspective.

Plus, it would be a hell of a ride.

And to this point, we didn't do a hike, but we did a day cruise out to a couple of glaciers. This is my favorite picture from the day - not necessarily because of my fantastic photography skills, but because you have to look really close to see the 3-story ship in the middle. I love how surprising the scale is.

https://i.imgur.com/C69RlPs.jpeg

That describes my trip to Antarctica pretty well, too. Seeing it in person had a real wow factor that I didn't expect. It's not hyperbole when I say I see the world a little bit differently now.

But of course I didn't do it for that reason. I did it to inspire future generations of little boys to go into careers related to Antarctica.

Whoa, that's wild

I would have to say yes, despite the company. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity. I dealt with my libtard sister in law( who was absolutely unbearable the entire trip) for a 2 week trip to Alaska. I can put up with that group for this experience.

I did an Alaska cruise back in 2016 and absolutely loved it. The scenery was breathtaking and being on ship again after disembarking from the Concord for the last time nearly 30 years prior brought me a joy I couldn't hardly believe. We even had some mildly rough seas the first day - the ship was rolling and pitching, shit was sliding around, people were pissing and moaning and getting sick and I was in heaven.

You can have the same epiphany with trippy music and Alan Watts. Even more fun with naked 20 year olds on molly but that might be a bit much for CP.

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I want to go back and do some inland stuff, like the train ride from Anchorage to Fairbanks.

The cruise I went on traveled like 2000 miles round trip up the coast and back from Seattle, yet still ended up like ~450-500 miles east of Anchorage (furthest west was Glacier Bay), barely scratching the surface of Alaska.

I still promote the assertion that we should provide Mr. Romanowski an invitation and have very inconvenient accident zero gravity, extreme radiation or extreme temperatures.


Quiet certain we can spray paint the invitation it gold with some Armor All and convince him he's going to the Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory.

I’d do it I think. It would be mostly worth it just so my kids and grandkids would have a story to tell someday. It would also be worth it for the thrill of that few minutes of life/death adrenaline.

You can do the train on the regular ol' Alaska Railroad, but we decided to do it with a little extra luxury. Highly recommend.

https://www.alaskatravel.com/trains/wilderness-express/

Thanks! I was expecting far worse in terms of price, TBH... Vermont/New Hampshire have those domed trains and IIRC, costs would run about the same for less than half the time spent on the train (of course, I also assume there's far greater demand in New England than Alaska).

What an awful group of people to have to endure for what should be a singularly incredible experience.

However, I’d just have to grin a bear it, I suppose. Couldn’t turn down the chance to go into space.

In a heartbeat.