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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, 04:15 PM | #31 | |
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2. You can take a one-time cash prize of $150,000, with all prize taxes paid by the dairy. I would take the cash. If I was 25 I would do something stupid like take the trip. |
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02-25-2014, 04:16 PM | #32 |
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People have been in space before, so not sure how much of a story it would be. Now, do something crazy up there, I'm sure you can think of something, and then maybe you'll have a story to sell.
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02-25-2014, 04:16 PM | #33 | |
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02-25-2014, 04:18 PM | #34 |
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Yeah... I've seen how this story ends.
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02-25-2014, 04:20 PM | #35 | |
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02-25-2014, 04:27 PM | #36 |
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I'm taking the cash and buying my own tractor and telling Trans Am to **** off.
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02-25-2014, 04:27 PM | #37 |
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Id take the cash and donate it to my church.
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02-25-2014, 04:28 PM | #38 | |
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02-25-2014, 04:29 PM | #39 |
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02-25-2014, 04:32 PM | #40 |
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02-25-2014, 04:32 PM | #41 | |
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02-25-2014, 04:33 PM | #42 | |
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02-25-2014, 04:34 PM | #43 | |
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And that's exactly what I would do. No mortgage means another 600 bucks a month plus ownership of (hopefully) an appreciating asset. For me, It would only take about half of the prize money to do that. Plenty left. |
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02-25-2014, 04:35 PM | #44 |
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1 week in space without a doubt. I didn't even have to think about it. That is a crazy ass experience for pennies on the dollar.
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02-25-2014, 04:35 PM | #45 | |
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The other reason is that $150,000 can buy you a lot of good experiences down on terra firma. Would I go into space for a week, or would I do an epic trip around the world for a year? The epic earth trip is really tempting, but in the end I envisioned myself sitting in the South Pacific in front of some overwater hut, and I would look up and see the Milky Way and think, "Man, I could've been up there." No matter where I went or how I spend the money, I would always look up on a clear night and say, "I could've been up there." In the end, I would do the space trip for that reason. It's hard to turn down a once-in-a-lifetime adventure that less than 500 human beings have done in the history of mankind. Plus, what's more impressive at a party? "I spent a year traveling the world", or "Yeah, I was in freakin' outer space".
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