When will I be able to buy a personal spacecraft?

Will · 03-19-2005

Any thoughts as to when personal spacecrafts will hit the market.

C1ay · 03-19-2005

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Originally Posted by Will

Any thoughts as to when personal spacecrafts will hit the market.

With a sufficient offer you might be able to get a copy of SpaceShipOne from Scaled Composites now.

Will · 03-21-2005

wow.. that's pretty cool.

but any thoughts as to when its regular?? 100 years? 300 years? longer?

C1ay · 03-21-2005

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Originally Posted by Will

wow.. that's pretty cool.

but any thoughts as to when its regular?? 100 years? 300 years? longer?

I'd guess less than 50 years. It's really available now for a price which will only come down as time moves on.

Will · 03-21-2005

but in 50 years you don't imagine it'll be that common...

orbsycli · 03-23-2005

i do.
think about this will:

all the technology ever created will DOUBLE in the next 5 years.
and then that technology, will double AGAIN 5 years after that.

we are going to see some pretty amazing things.

Fishteacher73 · 03-23-2005

I'm still waitin' on one of them there facncy horseless carriages.

Will · 03-23-2005

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Originally Posted by orbsycli

i do.
think about this will:

all the technology ever created will DOUBLE in the next 5 years.
and then that technology, will double AGAIN 5 years after that.

we are going to see some pretty amazing things.

i understand that technological improvements increase at an amazing rate. when you compare how long it took humans to make some advancements thousands of years ago to advancements we've made over the last hundred years it is very shocking.

and of course the technology we've made over the last 20 years is allowing us to produce new technologies even faster. it's really cool! but i still don't see the world changing as quickly. It's 2005 and while a lot has changed since 1995, i don't know that 50 years is enough for us to start seeing personal spacecraft as common.