Nerd Word of the Day: Tourinauts
Tourinauts: Tourists that tag along on space flights.
The launch of the Soyuz TMA-14 this morning included another tourinaut, a repeat tourinaut mind you: Charles Simonyi.
Other tourinauts were: Dennis Tito, Mark Shuttleworth, Gregory Olsen and Anousheh Ansari – some paying as much as $20 million dollars for the trip.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has already plopped down $5 million dollars to be a tourinaut on a future flight, but investors in Google stock have been trying hard to keep him down on Earth! :-)
Thanks Bob for the suggestion!
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Don’t spend your money on it now.
Wait a few more years for the price to go down. If no one else, I promise to invent the next fuel efficient space car! We’ll all have one. Don’t worry if you can’t afford it, I’ll have enough cash from inventor privileges, to buy one for everyone of you here. :-)
I would absolutely, positively love to go. $20mil? Even if I had it, I really do not think I would blow that much cash on a toy.
I would not like to drink my own urine. :grin:
You would rather drink someone else’s?
As long as they didn’t eat asparagus :shock:
That nerd word rhymes with TATER NUTS! :lol:
Pigs In Space :mrgreen:
Nothing in orbit, but a bunch of junk we’ve been shooting up there. I’d rather visit the bottom of the ocean. There are things swimming around down there that are far more interesting.
Huh!? You’ve been shooting up a bunch of junk? :twisted:
Dear Marina,
I can’t afford to be a “tourinaut.” Even if I did have that much, I hope I’d use the money to make things better here on earth. It’s an interesting “nerd word”, but so few people have paid for this ride into space and back, that it won’t be used very much. :cool:
Have you selected a name for the Bernese Mountain dog of your friend’s? I hope you choose Seesix, but there are many other nice names. :smile:
Seesixcm6
I would pay the money five million dollars ten million whatever. To see it from way out their. That would be something to see :?: :shock: :shock: <a href=”http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/meteorite.html”.wow
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Hi Marina,
I like how you superimposed yourself in front of the astronauts… I’d be smiling too… especially if you were coming along for the ride! :shock: :smile: :grin:
I did a ride on the “Vomit Comet” once…
heh heh! weightless acceleration… WHEE!
They tell me Viagra does the same thing :mrgreen:
For a better ride, combine the viagra with ecstacy, cocaine, tequila and a Vegas escort.
:roll:
You left out pot and heroin :mrgreen:
Do drugs make you cool, or only “feel” cool?
Ecstacy (aka MMDA – methamethyldioxyamphetamine)
is just speed… Speed Kills, hm’kay?
Might as well do the freefall without the airplane- LOL!
Never known anybody who did speed because it was ‘cool’. Pretty much everybody I’ve known who did it, did it because it does kill.
It was an ugly lifestyle, but then the world can be an ugly place.
:roll: “tourinauts” sounds like a syndrome
I especially enjoyed the part about keeping Sergey Brin down on Earth — the entire Google/YT management needs to be down to earth regarding their goals for YT; and the entire Google/YT engineering staff needs to be down to earth regarding their design and implementation! They need to get real!
If I had that kind of money to spend on a vacation I’d be a Tourinaut too.
Are peanuts included in the $20 million dollar ticket. :grin:
Nah, they use space M&M’s.
And you have to wear diapers.
Well I guess that could be a fetish.
I’d rather refer to it as a $20 million dollar “racket”
Tang instant breakfast drink, space M&M’s, snug fitting diapers, baby crib, etc.
You can get that and much more for under $300. Madame K told me so.
Soyuz has molded seats.
Who had the lucky job of molding Marina’s bottom?
$20 Million, that’s just a few videos isn’t it?
Petty cash for Marina.
Did this word just come out today? :???:
$20 million dollars for what these tourinauts are being told is a “space flight” is a very sad joke indeed :!:
Whoa, that was quick! Please stay here on the ground if you can help it, Marina! You know what happened the last time a schoolteacher tried space travel :twisted: , but anyway…
And what’s up w/ the ads about Russian beauties? Do they have the brains and wits to compete w/ you— highly doubtful!?
Wow, you’re kickin’ ass today, Marina!
This is a clever one.
Sorry this word sucks… lol!
You’ll need to wrap up better than that if you go into space, Marina.
Baby, it’s cold out there and there’s no ozone layer to protect you from the Sun’s radiation – more farmer’s tan, methinks. :lol:
I thought you made this word up :cool:
I suppose, I won’t even get on an airplane.
Wow that was fast!
It was so fast that I can’t believe she wasn’t about to post it anyway, which means that my psychic connection is still working – that’s creepy – sometimes I SCARE myself. :lol:
brains
Bellagio Fountains – Frank Sinatra Fly Me To The Moon…space age is for the MARINA cadets :razz:
Aero-TV: Oshkosh Veterans — A Lifetime Of Homebuilding …miss muppet…I live less than 50 miles of… :oops: :mrgreen: :razz: