Jinn of Quality and Risk

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According to critics, an eavesdropper, constantly striving to go behind the curtain of heaven in order to steal divine secrets. Grants wishes.

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Write a book, quickly. Read, more. Sleep, less. Travel in Europe and America, v.soon. Find a job, again.

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Species: featherless biped, chocolate addict
Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — good genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany
Languages: French, English, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ada, Perl, Java, assembly language, Pascal, C/C++, etc.
Jobs: factory worker, farmhand, supermarket cleaner, programmer, language lawyer, soldier, lecturer, software engineer, consultant, director of technology, solutions architect, programme manager, methodology lead, quality and risk manager, writer

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2002-05-03

Cheaper Spaceflight

People are starting to line up for the $20m week-in-space price. How many would be happy to pay $1m? Let's say at least one thousand. That's a $1b market awaiting entrepreneurial talent. Imagine what would happen at a $100k rate...

NASA is looking for a space shuttle replacement. Among NASA's main objectives: to lower the cost of delivering payloads to orbit from $10,000 a pound on the shuttle to $1,000 a pound or less, and reduce the risk of a deadly catastrophe from the current 1-in-almost 500 to 1-in-10,000. [nandotimes] At that $1,000 a pound, it would be possible to sell $1m tourist flights (and make a nice profit) — and at $100 a pound, the price can go down to $100,000. But note the risk. A cheap and less risky means of getting people up there would be a space elevator, brainchild of Arthur C. Clarke.

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