Wouldn't you guys rather go to OUTER SPACE?

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i guess you could go to space for "less than a med school education" but by that logic...




but yea i would rather be in outer space. i bet its mad anti-climactic when you get there though.
 
Screw space. $200k to blow, I'd get this
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Or buy a cheap car and drive it around the world like these guyshttp://www.theworldbyroad.com/
 
you guys never wanted to go to outer space? If I had the money I would go. Its high up on my bucket-list. Spurs would probably rather spend the 200k on a dinner with Tim Duncan though.
 
brooklynblunder said:
you guys never wanted to go to outer space? If I had the money I would go. Its high up on my bucket-list. Spurs would probably rather spend the 200k on a dinner with Tim Duncan though.
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Ha. I'm not saying it wouldn't be cool; I'm just saying if I had to choose to do one before the other, it's not a hard call for me. I'll note you'll probably be dropping that money on med school first too 😉

Right now I think my spending 200k priorities would go like this:
1. Go to med school (though I'm not paying that much, I would if I had to)
2. Dinner with Timmy.
3. Put it towards a huge house.
4. Personal lake full of Jell-O (refillable).
5. Go to space.
2398749027509823424. Dinner with Kobe.
 
Dinner with Kobe would be more interesting. Although I can see Timmy being Tiger-eque. He does have a playa for life tattoo (or something) on his back (nh)
 
For $200,000 you should be able to go to med school IN outer space.
 
You probably can't get loans to go to outer space though...not since the economic crash, at least.

If I had that kind of money to waste I would definitely go to space. How many people can say they've been there? Not many.
 
Compass said:
A 90 minute trip to space, or several years of education... You strike a hard bargain.
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:laugh:

GoSpursGo said:
Ha. I'm not saying it wouldn't be cool; I'm just saying if I had to choose to do one before the other, it's not a hard call for me. I'll note you'll probably be dropping that money on med school first too 😉

Right now I think my spending 200k priorities would go like this:
1. Go to med school (though I'm not paying that much, I would if I had to)
2. Dinner with Timmy.
3. Put it towards a small condo.
4. Personal lake full of Jell-O (refillable).
5. Go to space.
2398749027509823424. Dinner with Kobe.
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Fixed for CA.
 
I actually used the topic of space tourism for my HS's mandatory thesis requirement. Always been a dream of mine.👍
 
But once I go to space I'm probably not gonna be able to pay back my massive debt by remembering how I went to outer space that one time.
 
OP, it seems like your repeated attempts at dissuading us from medicine are pretty futile. Maybe you should try the high school forum. Gotta get em while they're young and more naive.
 
brooklynblunder said:
i guess you could go to space for "less than a med school education" but by that logic...




but yea i would rather be in outer space. i bet its mad anti-climactic when you get there though.
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you know a homie from New York when he say "mad" as an adverb.
:laugh:
 
Well considering that the price for civilians in space has dropped from 20 million to 200,000, I'm willing to bet in a decade or two it'll be under 50,000. After being an attending physician for a few years, I'd definitely consider something like going into space. I've always wanted to go to space.
 
I think you're only in outer space for 5 minutes. Med school you shell out 200k for a lifetime of experience.

I also think it's bs that the state and the taxes are paying for the space port in New Mexico seeing as how so few of the general public will benefit from this. It's not like an interstate that 80% of the population will use at sometime, and 60% will use regularly. This is $200M of tax payer money spent on something that less than 1% will benefit from, and the benefit is non-vital.
 
GregoryMD said:
Well considering that the price for civilians in space has dropped from 20 million to 200,000, I'm willing to bet in a decade or two it'll be under 50,000. After being an attending physician for a few years, I'd definitely consider something like going into space. I've always wanted to go to space.
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Using that logic, I'm gonna wait until im retired; by then it should be around the price of a southwest flight, $59. 50 years left 😀
 
I am withdrawing my acceptance to medschool and use the money for Space!!!!!

Thanks OP!! maybe I will find a hot cylon up there 😎
 
locus000 said:
I am withdrawing my acceptance to medschool and use the money for Space!!!!!

Thanks OP!! maybe I will find a hot cylon up there 😎
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If you're not lucky, she'll shoot you and let you float off into the vacuum of space.

If you are lucky, she'll ask if you're alive, ask you to prove it, and then let you float off into the vacuum of space.
 
brooklynblunder said:
you guys never wanted to go to outer space? If I had the money I would go. Its high up on my bucket-list. Spurs would probably rather spend the 200k on a dinner with Tim Duncan though.
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How bout dinner with a REAL basketball player??? Maybe like the bad-ass dunking deutcshmen...DIRK NOWITZKIIIIII. Tim Duncan is a joke just like the rest of the Spurs... Mavs baby.

MFFL.

😀 😀 😀
 
Concubines anyone? Concubines! Con. cu. bines! Con. cu. bines!
 
mbh11 said:
How bout dinner with a REAL basketball player??? Maybe like the bad-ass dunking deutcshmen...DIRK NOWITZKIIIIII. Tim Duncan is a joke just like the rest of the Spurs... Mavs baby.

MFFL.

😀 😀 😀
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Too easy. Making fun of Dirk No-Ring-Ski isn't even fun anymore.
 
mbh11 said:
How bout dinner with a REAL basketball player??? Maybe like the bad-ass dunking deutcshmen...DIRK NOWITZKIIIIII. Tim Duncan is a joke just like the rest of the Spurs... Mavs baby.

MFFL.

😀 😀 😀
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Both are good players, but I'd pick LeBron any day.
 
Call me crazy, but for some reason I'd feel unsafe paying them $200-250k for the trip. I mean, i know that nothing will probably happen and that's great. But, what if there was an engine malfunction or something, and you went just a little bit too far out of the atmosphere. It's not like NASA is going to come save you (or could, since the spacecraft are probably not compatible) -- you are SOL.

Also, they said that in the event of engine failure, the engine would be dumped and you could safely glide down to earth. I don't doubt the whole gliding thing, but if the engines misfire and you are 60-odd miles high, traveling 3,000mph, with a descent of about 160 ft/sec (what the space shuttle uses) it will take 33 minutes to reach earth, after which time you will have traveled 1,650 miles off course. And I mean, I know you could fly in circles and stuff, and you'd probably have enough time to make it to some appropriate landing site, but with my luck we'd end up in the Arctic ocean.

Edit: Conclusion -- I'd take the Lambo.
 
hell no. i am scared of flying in a regular plane, so i'm certain i'd be scared of flying in a f-ing rocketship into outer space.
 
Its a waste of money (the flight).

I'd go if it was free or something. Flight Doctor anyone?
 
He2 said:
you know, you could also pay $200,000, get a med school education, then be qualified to fly to space FOR WEEKS AT A TIME

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/satcher-rl.html

(all astronauts must have an advanced degree)
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This is kinda what I am going for since I've been working in the aerospace field for a few years before I realised I needed to be a doc to go further in my research. I've also published on space tourism. 🙂

By the way, you could fly up to a year at a time since the cosmonaut who currently holds the record is a medical doctor. There are a lot of astronauts and cosmonauts that are MDs.
 
ziggyd0c said:
hell no. i am scared of flying in a regular plane, so i'm certain i'd be scared of flying in a f-ing rocketship into outer space.
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Me too! I tried drinking a few last time.... it didn't help. 🙁 I hate flying!
 
He2 said:
you know, you could also pay $200,000, get a med school education, then be qualified to fly to space FOR WEEKS AT A TIME

http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/satcher-rl.html

(all astronauts must have an advanced degree)
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Is it possible to be a physician or surgeon IN space? You know, like Dr. McCoy? 😛 I mean, I'm sure they've got some kind of medical personnel on board, usually, right?
 
Algophiliac said:
Is it possible to be a physician or surgeon IN space? You know, like Dr. McCoy? 😛 I mean, I'm sure they've got some kind of medical personnel on board, usually, right?
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It's a specialty called aerospace medicine, which usually means being on planes but it can extend to outer space stuff as well. Edit: Wait nvm... that might not necessarily mean they'll be in space though...
 
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Would love to go in space!
 
schrizto said:
It's a specialty called aerospace medicine, which usually means being on planes but it can extend to outer space stuff as well. Edit: Wait nvm... that might not necessarily mean they'll be in space though...
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I believe this actually involves the physicians and surgeons also being pilots or something of that nature...and I don't believe it involves outer space, either, but thanks anyway! *sighs* It seems like I'll have to wait until outer space traveling is significantly more of a common phenomenon before I jump on the outer space medicine ideals. 😀
 
Algophiliac said:
I believe this actually involves the physicians and surgeons also being pilots or something of that nature...and I don't believe it involves outer space, either, but thanks anyway! *sighs* It seems like I'll have to wait until outer space traveling is significantly more of a common phenomenon before I jump on the outer space medicine ideals. 😀
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Actually the aerospace doctors don't have to be pilots, they just have to do flight physicals. Aerospace DOES involve outer space. The flight docs screen all the astronauts and there have been several MDs that were mission specialists that have flown in outer space.
 
familyaerospace said:
Actually the aerospace doctors don't have to be pilots, they just have to do flight physicals. Aerospace DOES involve outer space. The flight docs screen all the astronauts and there have been several MDs that were mission specialists that have flown in outer space.
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Wow! Could you provide information on how to go down this path eventually in an MD career? Is there a specific specialty that I would have to choose in medical school, or is another path entirely required?

To be honest, I don't really want to be part of any military endeavors due to personal convictions. My preference would be to work in some capacity with astronauts/in outer space. Is committing only to outer space flights possible? Thanks!
 
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