Some Moron Just Paid $28 MILLION For An Eleven Minute Trip To Space With Jeff Bezos
Source - Some high roller just dropped a fortune and a half to be one of two people who will fly up into space next month alongside the Bezos brothers ... all for a quick 11-minute trip!
Blue Origin auctioned off the third seat of the manned-voyage that's set to go down in late July -- the first of its kind for the company -- and they're saying the winning bid went to somebody who dropped ... wait for it ... a whopping $28 MILLION for the opportunity.
The sale closed Saturday, and it reportedly follows a month of bidding wars that didn't start getting into stupid rich territory until this past week ... when Jeff announced he'd be one of the four people going up there, with none other than his own brother, Mark, as person #2.
Oh, and we should also mention ... the $28M is being donated to an in-house BO educational arm that promotes science/space travel among the youth. So, this person definitely has money to blow ... and can feel good about themselves afterward. Win-win!!!
I'm just going to come out and say it- enough with the space. Enough with the aliens, enough with the UFO's, enough with it all. There's nothing up there and even if there was who cares? What could we possibly find that would meaningfully change our lives? Nothing. Which is why I simply do not understand the allure of space travel and I definitely don't understand why someone would spend $28 MILLION for a trip.
The details:
Jeff announced Monday that he himself would be going up for BO's maiden voyage with people inside … putting his ass on the line, and kinda roping his bro in by extension.
We know we've said this before, but it's worth stating again … what they're essentially doing is shooting themselves up in a rocket, which will then propel a separate capsule even higher up to the point that it breaks the stratosphere and technically reaches "space."
All in all, they'll be some 62 miles above ground -- and it'll take about 10 minutes or so to get there. Once they're above the Earth, they'll take a quick gander around, soak in the scene … and then descend back down. Bottom line … it's a sightseeing expedition.
10 minutes and some awkward small talk. That's all they get. Also, not to get morbid but what if it blew up? Like I hope it doesn't, but that's a definitely possibility, right? It's the first "manned voyage of it's kind" meaning Blue Origin has no idea what they're doing. Probably not the smartest idea to send the richest man in the world on the trip but what do I know, maybe it will go well. Also, the $28 million is being donated to promote science/space travel among the youth, so at least there's that. Best of luck to Bezos and whoever it was that bought that ticket, they're going to need it.