Fly Me With Balloons is one of my favorite Stern parody songs.
No thanks. I've seen what happens to bouncy castles on windy days.Only 50k? They're practically giving away trips to near space.
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Another company is offering edge-of-space balloon trips, but at just $50,000
The space balloon race is in full effect, as Arizona's World View offers five-day trips 100,000 feet above the Grand Canyon at the bargain price of $50,000.www.cnn.com

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From the article:Were any of them green?
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FIFYWhen I get trojan assteroids, I use a little ointment.

Cool. They should figure out a way to fling poop into space that way.A trebuchet to freaking space!
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The future of satellite launches? Startup CATAPULTS vehicle into space
California-based start-up SpinLaunch successfully completed a test flight of its prototype suborbital accelerator last month after loading a projectile into it and blasting it to space.www.dailymail.co.uk
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Cool. But what could possible go wrong?A trebuchet to freaking space!
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The future of satellite launches? Startup CATAPULTS vehicle into space
California-based start-up SpinLaunch successfully completed a test flight of its prototype suborbital accelerator last month after loading a projectile into it and blasting it to space.www.dailymail.co.uk
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Oh yeah. That.Cool. They should figure out a way to fling poop into space that way.
Oopsy, we now have moved an asteroid into a earth collision course.![]()
NASA mission is set to launch and deliberately crash into an asteroid's moon
A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is preparing to launch. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test will lift off at 10:20 p.m. PT on November 23. NASA will test its asteroid deflection technology in September 2022 to see how it impacts the motion of a near-Earth...www.cnn.com