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To: xp38

The last thing you want in exploring space is a shoe string budget.

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And 5,000 feet isn’t space. There are better ways to get to that altitude.


10 posted on 02/23/2020 7:24:15 AM PST by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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To: Moonman62

Yes. He could have used weather balloons and a lawn chair.


15 posted on 02/23/2020 7:27:20 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: Moonman62
And 5,000 feet isn’t space. There are better ways to get to that altitude.

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25 posted on 02/23/2020 7:37:39 AM PST by MD Expat in PA (No. I am not a doctor nor have I ever played one on TV. The MD in my screen name stands for Maryland)
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To: Moonman62
And 5,000 feet isn’t space. There are better ways to get to that altitude.

A quick commercial plane ride would have gotten him 6-7 times that. Hell, I live at 5,280 MSL.

26 posted on 02/23/2020 7:38:03 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: Moonman62

And 5,000 feet isn’t space. There are better ways to get to that altitude.


He could have driven up to Big Bear—its even in the same county.


45 posted on 02/23/2020 8:30:46 AM PST by hanamizu
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“There are better ways to get to that altitude.”

like maybe renting a piloted aircraft to ride in for a couple of hours?


46 posted on 02/23/2020 8:34:32 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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