January 16, 2024 • 11 mins
Embark on a cosmic odyssey with us as we uncover the trailblazers who are turning space tourism from a distant dream into a tangible ticket to the stars. Hang on to your space helmets while we explore the universe of Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Virgin Galactic alongside pioneers Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Richard Branson. Imagine strapping in for a suborbital flight, marveling at the curvature of Earth, and even chuckling at our pitch for a reality TV show that could silence all flat earth debates. With an eye on the future, we're not just talking about these astronomical experiences, but also how this exclusive club might one day welcome the average Jane and Joe without breaking the bank.
Back on terra firma, we transition from the vast emptiness of space to the bustling hilarity of our existence with stories that showcase the lighter side of life. From the quirkiest corners of our daily routines, we share laughs, swap tales, and keep the humor flowing. Remember, laughter is the best medicine, and we're here to provide your dose. Share the joy with friends, and be sure to spread the word about our blend of observational comedy that keeps the giggles coming. Keep curious, keep smiling, and most importantly—keep laughing.
Back on terra firma, we transition from the vast emptiness of space to the bustling hilarity of our existence with stories that showcase the lighter side of life. From the quirkiest corners of our daily routines, we share laughs, swap tales, and keep the humor flowing. Remember, laughter is the best medicine, and we're here to provide your dose. Share the joy with friends, and be sure to spread the word about our blend of observational comedy that keeps the giggles coming. Keep curious, keep smiling, and most importantly—keep laughing.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Do you ever lift your head up from your phone, look
around and think to yourself myGod, everything is weird.
Well, we do a lot.
This is the Observation Station, a unique, entertaining and
hilarious podcast.
(00:21):
If we observe it, we talk aboutit.
Anything and everything,anything and everything.
Let's get weird and let's havesome fun.
This is the Observation Stationand now your host, tommy
Heights.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Hey, what's going on?
Welcome back space travelersand enthusiasts.
This is the Observation Station.
I'm your host, tommy Heights,ready to take you on another
interstellar journey.
Today we're talking aboutsomething that's not just in the
realms of science fictionanymore space tourism.
You heard it right vacationingin space.
(01:04):
So let's blast off with thesebig names in the games.
First off, we're going to startoff with some Jeff Bezos, elon
Musk and Richard Branson.
These guys aren't just techmoguls, they're trailblazers of
the commercial space travel.
So Jeff Bezos, everybody knows,is the Amazon tycoon.
He launched Blue Origin withthe vision of millions of people
(01:26):
living and working in space.
So the company's new shepherdrocket has already taken
civilian crews just past theCarmen line, and that's the
official start of space.
So imagine floating in zerogravity and seeing earth from
above.
I mean, it's mind blowing,right.
I can just remember when wewere younger kids they would
(01:50):
have it where we would go, andyou know, to these places where
their ex like maybe NASA, notastronauts, but they're working
there and they would come intothe school and they'd tell us oh
well, you know, this is how itis out in space.
Here's some photos.
These are some things that thetelescope took photos of Mind
you.
This was when we were a lotyounger.
(02:10):
It wasn't like Google now whereyou can just type in these
images and see all kind of 4k ofMars and Jupiter and all that
other stuff, easily accessibleBack when you're kids and you're
like in elementary school.
You see the guy come in and ohmy.
God, is this guy an astronaut?
What's going on?
So everybody grows up seeing aspace is different.
(02:32):
I don't know what's going onwith these flat earthers.
These guys should be, you know.
You should say thrown off theearth.
You know, I would love to takeevery flat earthers, take them
straight out to space, to one ofthese tourism things, just film
it and make a reality TV show.
And when you toss them off thespace station, just let them fly
out into the ether of space andgo.
How flat is that earth?
(02:52):
So I mean, look, we have a lotof big people that have to have
a lot of financial backing to dospace travel.
This is not something that'scheap, where you can just get on
a spirit flight and say, yeah,let me go to Mars.
No, it doesn't work like that.
So next we have Elon Musk, theman behind SpaceX, tesla, I mean
(03:16):
.
So you name it.
This is the guy that is in thefront of everybody's mind when
it comes to technologicaladvancements into the world.
He's not just thinking aboutspace tourism.
He's eyeing Mars colonization.
His Starship rocket is designedfor deep space missions.
So Musk dreams of makinghumanity a multi-planetary
(03:38):
species.
Imagine booking a trip to Marsin the future, which has a whole
new meaning to long distancetravel.
I think if we had seen, maybeor I had seen an interview with
Elon, he was mentioning that ifhe was to die, he would rather
do it on Mars than on Earth.
I feel that if you're gettingbored of Earth, when you have
(04:01):
200 and something billions ofdollars, you're like well, you
know what other planets arethere out in the galaxy?
A lot of times people have tohave it where they get.
That next buzz of the big thing.
And the space tourism is goingto be the big thing because at
some point people are gonna belike you know, we see it all on
TV as our aliens, what's goingon out there, and you know how
(04:24):
is it gonna be inhabitable forhumans?
How long can you stay up therewith the oxygen levels, all
different kinds of things?
When you see somebody like ElonMusk, I feel like if there's
somebody to find out how to takecare of space tourism in a way
that is a consumer friendlything that we can say, hey, book
(04:45):
the ticket to Mars, we're going.
It doesn't even have to befirst class flying the economy,
unless it takes forever to getup there.
Eight hour flights are badenough.
On these planes.
I could just imagine, you know,I mean, you're spending a
couple hundred thousand dollarsto be going up to space at this
point From there.
It's like, okay, well, you seeit all in the pictures, but what
(05:06):
is it to be living it out inreal life?
That is two separate things.
It's like, okay, you have abunch of billionaires going at
it.
Who is the best at doing thespace tourism?
Is it the guy that's doing BlueOrigin?
Is it SpaceX?
Well, finally, we come here toRichard Branson.
Richard Branson a lot of peopleknow as the founder of Virgin.
(05:30):
So there's Virgin Airlines,virgin Voyages for Cruises, but
the adventurous founder of theVirgin Galactic, his spaceship
it's called Space Ship Two isaiming for suborbital space
flight.
So it's giving passengers a fewminutes of weightlessness with
ground zero gravity and abreathtaking view of Earth.
(05:54):
So, branson, he took himself ona ride to space, proving that
his vision is well within reach.
I was looking to say, okay, howmuch are these tickets worth?
But 125,000 dollars for 30seconds of being out in space.
If you have that kind ofcapital, that's nothing but a
drop in the bucket, but ifyou're a normal person, that's
(06:14):
gonna be way out of the budgetfor normal folks to say, hey
look, I would like to go tospace, here's $130,000.
Let's get there, buh-buh-buh,it's not that quick.
The advancements are incrediblewhen you think about it.
I mean it's over half a centurylike since humanity first set
(06:36):
foot on the moon.
So the historic Apollo 11mission in 1969 was a giant leap
for mankind.
Now we're looking beyond thatwith Mars as the next big
frontier.
So Maybe some people are alreadylike hey, what would it be like
to meet aliens?
Who knows if there's evenaliens out when you're gonna be
(06:58):
flying out there.
That's not a guaranteed.
When you're visiting out there,we don't even really know what
the universe has to offer,because there is so much out
there that has been undiscovered, just like the ocean.
It's like it gives you aheadache almost just looking out
into the starry sky light andsaying, wow, there is so much
out there that I have no ideathat even exists.
(07:20):
We just are knowing of what'sgoing on in front of us.
I mean, when you take a look atearth, you think to yourself
how small you are in the the biggame of life.
I mean earth as a, as it isright now, has about seven
billion people, how many youknow?
It doesn't have to be maybehumans, but what other species
(07:41):
are on these different planetsthat we could communicate with?
I mean, the mind just canwander forever and just say, wow
, look at all the resources, ifwe get good enough to extract
them from different planets,which wouldn't hurt, whatever
life is on those other planetsnot that there's human resources
for these interplanetaryresource extractions but I say,
(08:04):
oh my god, we don't have toextract any more from earth.
We can pull it from whateveryou know, the planet tata,
whatever you want to call it.
That would be super cool andsay, yeah, I run a resource
extraction on this, this planettata.
That'd be so cool.
These are the things thatpeople now with technology and
(08:24):
artificial intelligence can sayokay, so how can I fix this?
What can I do here?
When we were on the moon, thatwas a joke for people to say, oh
, yeah, well, that'll happen.
When a man walks on the moon,the 1969 walks around.
That happens.
Now what?
So that's a big part of or inyour life.
(08:45):
You're saying, okay, what is itthat I need to do to figure out
what is in my mind?
To say this is impossible.
I mean going to the moon.
That had to be beyondimpossible.
Trying to even explain that tothe people, even Like family
members, like hey, I'm going tosee the moon right there, I'm
going to be walking on that soon, families probably like you
(09:05):
know, alright, yeah, whatever,well, you know that probably
will blow up in midair orwhatever it is.
This is the beautiful thing ofhaving it where you're an
independent thinker say, alright, I want to do this.
This is what makes me Just tickto say I want to be on the moon
.
So From there you say, well,what is it that makes me want to
(09:29):
push Forward so hard that noone on planet Earth has ever
been able to do?
And that's what NASA was, a wasallowed to do when they sent
the, the astronauts out there inApollo 11, they put the flag of
the, the American, the flag, onthe moon.
I mean these are beautifulthings that you just like, wow.
You sit there even watching thevideos of the first time the man
(09:52):
Hit the moon.
You're like, oh my god.
I mean, just imagine beingright there to watch the TV and
say this is now where we'vepushed Technology to such a
extent that it's not evenunderstandable to the, even the
human that's watching this.
I mean it's so unbelievablethat people are like, oh yeah,
they filmed that in some moviestudio in Arizona and they faked
the moon landing.
(10:12):
It's like whatever, okay,whatever.
So I mean, look it is what itis.
So I mean that, look, thatwraps up our Cosmic ride for
today.
It's exhilarating to look upand and just see the sky and
think that what is the future ofspace travel?
How could it become a part ofour lives?
(10:33):
So Keep thinking you know, keepthe star, starry skies just up
there in your, in your back,your mind.
You know the the sky is nolonger the limit.
So alright, well, with thatbeing said, I wanted to have it
when the next episode is goingto be the luxury cars and
economical vehicles.
(10:55):
So it's going to be kind oflike why would you buy a luxury
version economy car?
What's the reason?
You know, is it just a flex oris there a purpose behind it?
So hey, that being said, guys,next we're going to be diving
into that.
So tune in, find out signingoff from the observation station
, stay curious and just keep itsmiling.
(11:16):
Bye, bye, everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
You've been listening to the observation station.
We find everyday life andeveryday situations Hilarious.
We hope you've enjoyed the show.
We know we had a blast.
Make sure to like, rate andreview, and be sure to tell a
friend about the show.
That would help too.
See you next time on theobservation station.
Do you ever lift your head up from your phone, look
around and think to yourself myGod, everything is weird.
Well, we do a lot.
This is the Observation Station, a unique, entertaining and
hilarious podcast.
(00:21):
If we observe it, we talk aboutit.
Anything and everything,anything and everything.
Let's get weird and let's havesome fun.
This is the Observation Stationand now your host, tommy
Heights.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Hey, what's going on?
Welcome back space travelersand enthusiasts.
This is the Observation Station.
I'm your host, tommy Heights,ready to take you on another
interstellar journey.
Today we're talking aboutsomething that's not just in the
realms of science fictionanymore space tourism.
You heard it right vacationingin space.
(01:04):
So let's blast off with thesebig names in the games.
First off, we're going to startoff with some Jeff Bezos, elon
Musk and Richard Branson.
These guys aren't just techmoguls, they're trailblazers of
the commercial space travel.
So Jeff Bezos, everybody knows,is the Amazon tycoon.
He launched Blue Origin withthe vision of millions of people
(01:26):
living and working in space.
So the company's new shepherdrocket has already taken
civilian crews just past theCarmen line, and that's the
official start of space.
So imagine floating in zerogravity and seeing earth from
above.
I mean, it's mind blowing,right.
I can just remember when wewere younger kids they would
(01:50):
have it where we would go, andyou know, to these places where
their ex like maybe NASA, notastronauts, but they're working
there and they would come intothe school and they'd tell us oh
well, you know, this is how itis out in space.
Here's some photos.
These are some things that thetelescope took photos of Mind
you.
This was when we were a lotyounger.
(02:10):
It wasn't like Google now whereyou can just type in these
images and see all kind of 4k ofMars and Jupiter and all that
other stuff, easily accessibleBack when you're kids and you're
like in elementary school.
You see the guy come in and ohmy.
God, is this guy an astronaut?
What's going on?
So everybody grows up seeing aspace is different.
(02:32):
I don't know what's going onwith these flat earthers.
These guys should be, you know.
You should say thrown off theearth.
You know, I would love to takeevery flat earthers, take them
straight out to space, to one ofthese tourism things, just film
it and make a reality TV show.
And when you toss them off thespace station, just let them fly
out into the ether of space andgo.
How flat is that earth?
(02:52):
So I mean, look, we have a lotof big people that have to have
a lot of financial backing to dospace travel.
This is not something that'scheap, where you can just get on
a spirit flight and say, yeah,let me go to Mars.
No, it doesn't work like that.
So next we have Elon Musk, theman behind SpaceX, tesla, I mean
(03:16):
.
So you name it.
This is the guy that is in thefront of everybody's mind when
it comes to technologicaladvancements into the world.
He's not just thinking aboutspace tourism.
He's eyeing Mars colonization.
His Starship rocket is designedfor deep space missions.
So Musk dreams of makinghumanity a multi-planetary
(03:38):
species.
Imagine booking a trip to Marsin the future, which has a whole
new meaning to long distancetravel.
I think if we had seen, maybeor I had seen an interview with
Elon, he was mentioning that ifhe was to die, he would rather
do it on Mars than on Earth.
I feel that if you're gettingbored of Earth, when you have
(04:01):
200 and something billions ofdollars, you're like well, you
know what other planets arethere out in the galaxy?
A lot of times people have tohave it where they get.
That next buzz of the big thing.
And the space tourism is goingto be the big thing because at
some point people are gonna belike you know, we see it all on
TV as our aliens, what's goingon out there, and you know how
(04:24):
is it gonna be inhabitable forhumans?
How long can you stay up therewith the oxygen levels, all
different kinds of things?
When you see somebody like ElonMusk, I feel like if there's
somebody to find out how to takecare of space tourism in a way
that is a consumer friendlything that we can say, hey, book
(04:45):
the ticket to Mars, we're going.
It doesn't even have to befirst class flying the economy,
unless it takes forever to getup there.
Eight hour flights are badenough.
On these planes.
I could just imagine, you know,I mean, you're spending a
couple hundred thousand dollarsto be going up to space at this
point From there.
It's like, okay, well, you seeit all in the pictures, but what
(05:06):
is it to be living it out inreal life?
That is two separate things.
It's like, okay, you have abunch of billionaires going at
it.
Who is the best at doing thespace tourism?
Is it the guy that's doing BlueOrigin?
Is it SpaceX?
Well, finally, we come here toRichard Branson.
Richard Branson a lot of peopleknow as the founder of Virgin.
(05:30):
So there's Virgin Airlines,virgin Voyages for Cruises, but
the adventurous founder of theVirgin Galactic, his spaceship
it's called Space Ship Two isaiming for suborbital space
flight.
So it's giving passengers a fewminutes of weightlessness with
ground zero gravity and abreathtaking view of Earth.
(05:54):
So, branson, he took himself ona ride to space, proving that
his vision is well within reach.
I was looking to say, okay, howmuch are these tickets worth?
But 125,000 dollars for 30seconds of being out in space.
If you have that kind ofcapital, that's nothing but a
drop in the bucket, but ifyou're a normal person, that's
(06:14):
gonna be way out of the budgetfor normal folks to say, hey
look, I would like to go tospace, here's $130,000.
Let's get there, buh-buh-buh,it's not that quick.
The advancements are incrediblewhen you think about it.
I mean it's over half a centurylike since humanity first set
(06:36):
foot on the moon.
So the historic Apollo 11mission in 1969 was a giant leap
for mankind.
Now we're looking beyond thatwith Mars as the next big
frontier.
So Maybe some people are alreadylike hey, what would it be like
to meet aliens?
Who knows if there's evenaliens out when you're gonna be
(06:58):
flying out there.
That's not a guaranteed.
When you're visiting out there,we don't even really know what
the universe has to offer,because there is so much out
there that has been undiscovered, just like the ocean.
It's like it gives you aheadache almost just looking out
into the starry sky light andsaying, wow, there is so much
out there that I have no ideathat even exists.
(07:20):
We just are knowing of what'sgoing on in front of us.
I mean, when you take a look atearth, you think to yourself
how small you are in the the biggame of life.
I mean earth as a, as it isright now, has about seven
billion people, how many youknow?
It doesn't have to be maybehumans, but what other species
(07:41):
are on these different planetsthat we could communicate with?
I mean, the mind just canwander forever and just say, wow
, look at all the resources, ifwe get good enough to extract
them from different planets,which wouldn't hurt, whatever
life is on those other planetsnot that there's human resources
for these interplanetaryresource extractions but I say,
(08:04):
oh my god, we don't have toextract any more from earth.
We can pull it from whateveryou know, the planet tata,
whatever you want to call it.
That would be super cool andsay, yeah, I run a resource
extraction on this, this planettata.
That'd be so cool.
These are the things thatpeople now with technology and
(08:24):
artificial intelligence can sayokay, so how can I fix this?
What can I do here?
When we were on the moon, thatwas a joke for people to say, oh
, yeah, well, that'll happen.
When a man walks on the moon,the 1969 walks around.
That happens.
Now what?
So that's a big part of or inyour life.
(08:45):
You're saying, okay, what is itthat I need to do to figure out
what is in my mind?
To say this is impossible.
I mean going to the moon.
That had to be beyondimpossible.
Trying to even explain that tothe people, even Like family
members, like hey, I'm going tosee the moon right there, I'm
going to be walking on that soon, families probably like you
(09:05):
know, alright, yeah, whatever,well, you know that probably
will blow up in midair orwhatever it is.
This is the beautiful thing ofhaving it where you're an
independent thinker say, alright, I want to do this.
This is what makes me Just tickto say I want to be on the moon
.
So From there you say, well,what is it that makes me want to
(09:29):
push Forward so hard that noone on planet Earth has ever
been able to do?
And that's what NASA was, a wasallowed to do when they sent
the, the astronauts out there inApollo 11, they put the flag of
the, the American, the flag, onthe moon.
I mean these are beautifulthings that you just like, wow.
You sit there even watching thevideos of the first time the man
(09:52):
Hit the moon.
You're like, oh my god.
I mean, just imagine beingright there to watch the TV and
say this is now where we'vepushed Technology to such a
extent that it's not evenunderstandable to the, even the
human that's watching this.
I mean it's so unbelievablethat people are like, oh yeah,
they filmed that in some moviestudio in Arizona and they faked
the moon landing.
(10:12):
It's like whatever, okay,whatever.
So I mean, look it is what itis.
So I mean that, look, thatwraps up our Cosmic ride for
today.
It's exhilarating to look upand and just see the sky and
think that what is the future ofspace travel?
How could it become a part ofour lives?
(10:33):
So Keep thinking you know, keepthe star, starry skies just up
there in your, in your back,your mind.
You know the the sky is nolonger the limit.
So alright, well, with thatbeing said, I wanted to have it
when the next episode is goingto be the luxury cars and
economical vehicles.
(10:55):
So it's going to be kind oflike why would you buy a luxury
version economy car?
What's the reason?
You know, is it just a flex oris there a purpose behind it?
So hey, that being said, guys,next we're going to be diving
into that.
So tune in, find out signingoff from the observation station
, stay curious and just keep itsmiling.
(11:16):
Bye, bye, everybody.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
You've been listening to the observation station.
We find everyday life andeveryday situations Hilarious.
We hope you've enjoyed the show.
We know we had a blast.
Make sure to like, rate andreview, and be sure to tell a
friend about the show.
That would help too.
See you next time on theobservation station.
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