A very Hawking experience

[rewebster]

To quote S. R. Haddon to Ellie Arroway from "Contact":

"They still want an American to go, Doctor. Wanna take a ride?"



http://cgi.ebay.com/Fly-with-Stephen-Hawking-on-The-ZERO-G-Experience-4-26_W0QQitemZ180097370187QQcategoryZ16071QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[G01]

Wow.

The current bidder when I checked, bidded $21,000 to be weightless with Steven Hawking!

Someone's making some money on this!

 

[rewebster]

"100% of the proceeds from this auction will benefit Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation."

www.starlight.org

 

[rewebster]

What I find interesting is not that the bid is $21.3k--

-what I find interesting is that over 47000 have viewed the auction

(number near bottom of page)



(From what I've seen, the average for the 'viewed' on a general item may be around 50-150)

 

[Thrice]

probably got listed on digg or fark

 

[G01]

"100% of the proceeds from this auction will benefit Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation."

www.starlight.org

Cool, guess I should pay more attention.

 

[MeJennifer]

"100% of the proceeds from this auction will benefit Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation."

www.starlight.org

Starlight Starbright is a wonderful foundation! :!)

I hope they get a lot of money on this!

 

[sas3]

It is up to 25K now

A flight without Steven is only $3500, I thought it would be more.
It is going for a good cause so, get bidding.

 

[rewebster]

GedankenExperiment:

If you had a chance to choose an 'experience' (let's not get too weird here) with someone-----

who (someone that is still living) would it be?

what would it be?

and,

how much would you pay for the experience?

 

[rewebster]

I went through a few before deciding that I would like to meet with Professor Sheldon Glashow for a day and I'd give a week's pay for the meeting.

 

[tehno]

GedankenExperiment:

If you had a chance to choose an 'experience' (let's not get too weird here) with someone-----

who (someone that is still living) would it be?

what would it be?

and,

how much would you pay for the experience?

http://www.ettoremajorana.it/Majorana/index.html" in the case he is still around.
There's not much of a real chance for our meeting to take place but he would be my first pick.

Price?Well,I wouldn't mind spending $50 000 for one hour chatting with him.

 

[rewebster]

http://www.ettoremajorana.it/Majorana/index.html" in the case he is still around.
There's not much of a real chance for our meeting to take place but he would be my first pick.

Price?Well,I wouldn't mind spending $50 000 for one hour chatting with him.

Mrs. Houdini probably spent more than that with no luck.

 

[Mk]

Starlight Starbright is a wonderful foundation! :!)

I hope they get a lot of money on this!

I think they should award one seat to a kid!

 

[rewebster]

Well--it ended up good for the www.starlight.org --good for them

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I just clicked the link and---

the ended listing on ebay disappeared!

The end was over 70K ---I wonder what happened?--hmmm?