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Old 07-July-2008, 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Ronald Brak View Post
World per capita GDP about $8,500.
World growth, about 5%.
Cost of a suborbital trip according to space tourism dude, about $100,000

So, about 65 years before the common person can afford a space trip with less than a year's income.

Note this is only a very crude back of the envelope calculation.
great calculation by you, I appreciate this kind of calculation, because it is so much perfect and to the tune of matching with the current inflationary situation, people today wants to win the bread because the food inflation is also in pipe, later who says water inflation may be in the pipeline.
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