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  • (Score: 2) by Osamabobama on Wednesday June 05 2019, @08:35PM (4 children)

    by Osamabobama (5842) on Wednesday June 05 2019, @08:35PM (#851923)

    That's a good point. People tend to die on Everest every year, and that's a well-worn path by now.

    The biggest difference is probably the budget required for either trip. I think a likely moon trip (excluding R&D, maybe?) would cost about 4 orders of magnitude more than a typical Everest excursion. That puts it out of range of most individuals, so investors would be required. Investors tend to like repeatable results, so they are biased toward the non-dying type of mission.

    (I suppose deadly moon launches are technically repeatable, but there would be non-technical roadblocks imposed from outside to limit deaths.)

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday June 06 2019, @09:15PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Thursday June 06 2019, @09:15PM (#852442) Journal

    Investors tend to like repeatable results, so they are biased toward the non-dying type of mission.

    Get reality-TV shows involved - as long as no gory details for the deaths are broadcast, the Big Brother aficionados will bite, even if it involves dying instead of eviction.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Monday June 10 2019, @06:19PM (2 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Monday June 10 2019, @06:19PM (#853779)

    Investors tend to like repeatable results, so they are biased toward the non-dying type of mission.

    Depends on the type of investor. Investors with lots of money, like Venture Capitalists, tend to live pretty high on the risk/reward continuum. Lots of risk is acceptable, as long as the (risk X reward) product justifies it.

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    • (Score: 2) by mobydisk on Tuesday June 18 2019, @09:57PM (1 child)

      by mobydisk (5472) on Tuesday June 18 2019, @09:57PM (#857196)

      The problem is there is no capital reward to going to the moon. Venture capitalists like capital.

      • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday June 18 2019, @10:53PM

        by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday June 18 2019, @10:53PM (#857225)

        You're lacking creativity, in the 1960s you could have signed CocaCola as a sponsor and they would have paid millions to have their logo visible on the face of the moon... I'm sure there are similar deep-pocket sponsors around today who would pay for the rights to a documentary of the mission plus direction of the mission objectives.

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