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View Poll Results: Which prize option would you take? (See back story in thread header.) | |||
One-week trip to the International Space Station | 21 | 35.59% | |
$150,000 in cash | 37 | 62.71% | |
I would take neither. My real prize is in winning the contest in the first place. | 1 | 1.69% | |
My answer depends on whether I can take my dog. My dog and I go everywhere together. | 0 | 0% | |
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02-25-2014, 03:48 PM | #16 |
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I wanna trade for the chocolate milk.
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02-25-2014, 03:50 PM | #17 |
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ISS, without a second thought. $150k is nice, but it's not really that much. Somebody said increase it by a factor of 100 and they'd take the money. Well, I wouldn't need that much to change my mind, maybe a factor of 10.
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02-25-2014, 03:50 PM | #18 |
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I love space. I would love to goto space.
But compare that to paying off my house and providing a better life for my family? The value in time/usefulness on a space trip is not good. |
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02-25-2014, 03:52 PM | #19 |
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No way the contest/trip couldn't be turned into a book that made way more than 150K.
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02-25-2014, 03:55 PM | #20 | |
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If they're offering $1.5 million, I'd consider the cash. If they're offering $10 or $15 million, I'd take the cash for sure. |
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02-25-2014, 03:57 PM | #21 |
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02-25-2014, 03:59 PM | #22 |
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I'll take the cash unless I get to pick the other 11 people, which changes the game completely. In fact, that would be a good follow up question.
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02-25-2014, 04:03 PM | #23 |
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man, look at all those beaten-down domesticated people. $150,000 isn't much money. Paying off your mortgage? That is your dream?
Bizarre difference in philosophy, I guess. To me, the meaning of life is the accumulation of fantastic experiences which often but not always comes from vacations. These experiences don't end when you are done or get back home, they live on in your memory. I don't get up every day and go to work to pay off my house, I do it so that I can hopefully save enough money someday to stop working, and then its party time. The only reason why I'd probably take the money if it was $15MM is because even though the intangible value of the ISS voyage would be incredibly high, I can probably make up for it with that fat wad of cash because I could quit immediately and do stuff for an additional few decades more than planned.
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02-25-2014, 04:09 PM | #24 |
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Meh. Pretty sure it costs more than 150 large to get someone to space, so on a purely NPV basis space makes decent sense. But I'm a cheap ****. I'm a CHEAP ****.
Is it taxable? If so, what's the value of the space trip? If I have to pay tax on space trip no go. Not even close. So what are the tax implications? |
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02-25-2014, 04:12 PM | #28 |
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It's an honor just to be nominated.
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02-25-2014, 04:13 PM | #29 |
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It could be a book about nothing and it would sell. Document your bowel movements and it would be made into a coffee table book.
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02-25-2014, 04:14 PM | #30 |
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Even though it would cost a ton more, I'd go in debt to the tune of $250k to go into space. Easily
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