{"id":220,"date":"2003-11-24T07:24:13","date_gmt":"2003-11-24T13:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=220"},"modified":"2003-11-24T07:24:13","modified_gmt":"2003-11-24T13:24:13","slug":"space-for-sale-to-the-highest-bidder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2003\/11\/24\/space-for-sale-to-the-highest-bidder\/","title":{"rendered":"Space, for sale to the highest bidder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, you can bid on a space mission on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously.  Of course, I&#8217;m not sure what the average Joe would want with a satellite, but you never know.  It <i>does<\/i> have a camera, according to <a target=\"_blank\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,61267,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2\">this article on Wired News<\/a>, but is it really worth the price?  Well, I guess we&#8217;ll see.<br \/>\nPersonally, I like it.  Sure, I&#8217;m not going to bid on it, but I like the idea of privitizing space this way.  After all, how else are we going to get out there?  What&#8217;s more, how else are we going to make it cheap?  Cars and planes used to be horribly expensive, until everyone started using them.  Now, almost every family owns a car and everyone flies somewhere.  Okay, maybe not in their own plane, but still&#8230;  Combine this with a little space tourism and we might actually start to get out into space!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, you can bid on a space mission on eBay. Seriously. Of course, I&#8217;m not sure what the average Joe would want with a satellite, but you never know. It does have a camera, according to this article on Wired News, but is it really worth the price? Well, I guess we&#8217;ll see. Personally, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,27,28,30],"tags":[157],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crass-commerce","category-fun","category-science-and-technology","category-science-fiction","tag-ebay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}