I haven't stayed up to write a letter, in an envelope, put a stamp, sent from afar. Typically, the price of a stamp is about 8 cents or 1.2, if the place far away, or are overweight, we need to stick a few more.
If the place as far as Mars, how much money do I need to buy stamps to send? Also, how much stamps do.
Oliver Giddings wrote a 5 year old child abroad United Kingdom Royal Mail (RoyalMail) asked whether the return to Mars the postage? (Don't want to give in on Mars missions, nothing to write play with self-curiosity? ）
It seems "boring" problems, but also from the children in our home, we could laugh it off. However, the United Kingdom Royal Mail failed to do, in order to answer the child's questions, United Kingdom Royal Mail also help United States National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) solution.
NASA's answer is, needs £ 11602 (about 112250 Yuan).
Why are prices so high?
First of all, of course, is the distance, is the distance between the Earth and Mars 567 million-kilometer.
In addition, the Royal mail customer services adviser Andrew Smout said that fuel is very expensive, which will directly affect the cost of return to Mars.
He said: "NASA told me that they carried on a trip ' curiosity ' (Curiosity) Rover to Mars, it spent about $ 700 million. "
Other than fuel, storage costs are high. Andrew Smout said: "the spaceship itself is quite small, and therefore very expensive to store, if the proportion of cost according to the weight of the spacecraft and Mars to be, 100 grams of the object may have had to charge $ 18000. " Just Cavalli iPhone 5 Case
Post Office will not have a £ 11602 stamp, so if you return to Mars, which means you need to 18416 level stamp or 21466 grade stamps.
Oliver Giddings says a mother who received information from Royal Mail, children very happy. He's very interested in space, planets.
And of course, send a letter to the price so expensive, children naturally can not afford, and the post office there is no project, hope he does astronaut when I grow up, may be able to achieve this dream, if the astronaut dream cannot come true, or through travel letter.
Netherlands a company offering "one-way travel to Mars", that is, one with no tourism. Many people enrolled in the world, but not rich registration can chosen, also through layers of singles, who will become the first Mars immigrants settled in the above.
Last year United States scientists at MIT published its research report on Mars environment could enable human death in 68 days, however, there are still as many as 200,000 people eager to apply for the first human inhabitants of Mars.
In addition, the CEO of SpaceX, billionaire ailun·masike has announced an ambitious program of Mars – in the next 15 to 20 years, to 80,000 people on Earth to Mars, they will be where humans can live on a Mars base self-sufficient, reproduce.
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