Because barely anyone has had the chance to see the entire venue of human history at once. Philosophically it'd be very pleasing and worth it to me. And I'm not talking about flying really high in a plane, I actually meant orbiting a few times.
Lol, you mean stare at the earth from very far away? For 200k you could travel the world actually seeing where human history was made and enjoy the locations.
It's like paying extra to have a video game really zoomed out so you could see the whole thing at once. If that is philosophically pleasing to you, then you really need to expand yourself.
What may not be worth it to you, may be worth it to others. Playing the personal perspective as if it magically applies to everyone is a bit of self delusional generalization. Hence, you are only speaking from a position of opinion, or a position of non-interest. I would gladly pay 200k. And you do realize that in terms of economics, once everyone is doing it, it gets cheaper! Eventually this will become common place and an irrelevant conversation. It's basically a huge untapped market, and private companies know this.
Perhaps sometime in the far off future there will be Orbital Cruise ships that take you out to the moon and back 
Uh... everyone doing something doesn't make it cheaper, it makes it more expensive. Have you ever actually studied economics?
I wanna buy an apartment in NYC. there are hundreds of thousands of them, so ergo they are extremely expensive, therefore i should go buy a huge estate in California in order to get the cheapest deal right? Have YOU ever actually studied economics?
That's talking about supply, not how many people are buying them ie demand.
Everyone tries to buy superbowl tickets so they are very expensive, Cleveland browns tickets have very few buyers so they are relatively inexpensive.
Please don't confuse supply with demand, it is irritating and makes you look not too intelligent. When you say "lots of people are buying them" what you actually meant is "there are lots of them."
Think about your example this way, if there were only 2 people that wanted to live in those thousands of apartments in new york, they would be much less expensive than if everyone was buying them.
That was the point of my original logic. Space travel at the moment will only have 1 supplier, such as the Super bowl ergo very expensive. There's only one super bowl. Now to use the cruise example, if only one cruise went out every year to the sea, it would be hella expensive, but there are hundreds of cruises, which will be the same for space travel in the nearish future.
Which i think was the point of him saying private companies know its a huge untapped market.
a) you said "the more people that do something, the cheaper it gets"
b) the price of space travel is mainly the fuel and such that it takes getting up there. It is very very expensive to take something into space. The price of going into space will never fall below the cost of going into space.
c) until new tech comes out it doesn't matter how many people are going into space or how many companies are taking them there, it will be very expensive and just as pointless.
I didnt say that, Jackel did, shows how smart you are there doesnt it .
B) Proof? I would actually say the price of space travel to just rip off the hype of the idea and rich peoples pockets.
C) No doubt it will still be pretty expensive, and the second part is full of opinion. The Earth is nice, but space is a whole new "world" to explore. I would love to look back at Earth from a different perspective. Watching the sun rise and set and the moon hang in the sky amazes me. Everyone can go around the world, discover whatever history or culture you could have gotten a taste of in a book, congratulations. But to go into space is an area that hold surprise and wonder, similar to the bottom of the ocean.
I would much rather go to the moon and sit upon its surface just gazing at the Earth then to go to Italy take a ride on a gondola and take some idiotic souvenir back with me. A rock from the moon would have so much more meaning.
I would find it pointless to travel a world that everyone knows about, I'd rather go somewhere that still holds some secrets.
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10631&page=247
20,000 dollars per pound using a space shuttle.
10,000 dollars a lb on reusable space shuttles.
1,000 dollars per pound is a goal that we hope to eventually achieve. Then you have to factor in the cost of the shuttle, paying for wear and tear, paying for the crew, paying for ground support.
The price is mainly because of cost, not so much demand.
How credible is this information? I still like the outrages assumptions your making .
How smart did the Jackel comment make you feel by the way? You usually ignore it when i prove you wrong.
Sigh, at most you've proven that I don't care who you are. You are the millionth faceless noob that I've run into in my years here and you think that I actually give you an identity in my mind past that of the last post I read.
So how worthless do you feel when I don't even take the time to notice your entrance to a conversation?
What outrageous assumptions am I making? I showed the figures provided by someone else. Spaceflight is expensive. That is not an assumption, it is the reason poor countries aren't going to space.
I"m sorry that your general knowledge is so low that common knowledge comes off as an assumption to you.
Well if your common knowledge couldn't make the distinction between two different people talking i don't really see it as deserving much credit. I got the numbers from my little sister, she says it would cost about 50 thousand dollars, can you dispute her numbers any more then i can dispute yours? Oh my god someone who went to college gave you some number, congratulations, suddenly because a smart person said a number its fact.
Im not saying its not expensive and im not saying poor countries would go to space, this is currently discussing WHY its expensive not the fact that its expensive or not.
And oh my god you've been coming to a forum for years, congratulations, do you really think that makes me care at all?
How worthless do you feel being here for so long and still deserving of the same respect as someone who just joins the forum? Just goes to show all the time you spend here has some purpose other than making yourself look stupid.
In an attempt to no longer derail the thread into a petty arguement, please stay on topic or ignore our topic of discussion completely and allow someone else to discuss privatized space flight.