Real Estate Sales Pitch 2 and Asteroid Mining 6

How to avoid being pressured during a sales pitch and humanities attempts to reach an asteroid

$20,000. That was the price the speaker had said the program, Renatus, cost. The initial excitement that I had been in from all of the hype proceeded to drain away that instant. The speaker knew what was going though my head because it was most likely going through everyone else head as well. He immediately switched to another slide from his presentation and showed the prices from other real estate programs. One from from Robert Kiyosaki, another was a program I never heard of before. The goal was to show how each one was way more expensive then Renatus. They ranged from $30,000, to $100,000. The $20,000 didn’t seem so bad. The speaker then began to show potential payment plans for the program. These would help someone pay for it without needing the cash upfront, however, it would cost more overall. The speaker then came to everyone’s rescue and told us 3 ways we could pay up front and get the cheaper option. The first was to get a loan from Renatus. This would allow you to buy the entire program and use Renatus to make you money while you paid off the loan. The second way was to sell Renatus to other people. The speaker then showed a price plan for how much money we could make if we sold the program to other people, similar to what he was hoping to do. The third option was to buy only the courses we needed. Every real estate course was divided into sections. For example, one section might be $5000 and only focus on buy and hold classes. Another might be $11,000 and have buy and hold, and fix and flip classes. I started to think if buying or selling the program was even worth it. After the presentation, the meeting was over, although it definitely was just sales pitch. I asked the speaker why Renatus should even be something I should consider if bigger pockets has $500 bootcamps and other real estate clubs I could join allow me to connect with investors in person. He said that the classes are more in depth than the bigger pockets bootcamps and are constantly updated for the newest information. Concerning other real estate clubs, he said the investors in real estate meetups would treat me like a tool and expect that I do the higher up investors dirty work, like comping properties and analyzing deals with little or no pay. I drove home afterwards and thought about my experience, really asking myself if this program would be my ticket to the good life or a multi level marketing scam designed to take my money.

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JAXA’s Hayabusa 2

Even though Hayabusa 1 had serious problems, it still accomplished its mission. Due to this success, Japan decided to launch a second mission called Hayabusa 2. Similar to Hayabusa 1, it is a science mission hoping to expand on the technologies of the previous mission. It was launched on December 3, 2014. The mission objective was the study of asteroid Ryugu. This asteroid is thought to be made out of very basic molecules that could be the building blocks for planets and moons. After 4 years of flying, Hayabusa 2 reached the asteroid in June 2018. The spacecraft deployed 2 rovers onto the asteroid, which were able to land and survey the area for 16 hours. What JAXA hoped to find were areas of loose soil for collecting deposits. However, none were found due to the many boulders and rocks. The team at JAXA decided to wait until 2019 to see if a better area would be found. Once they found a potential spot free from boulders, the spacecraft launched an impactor and created a small crater that loosened up the rock. The samples were gathered from this spot by Hayabusa 2. After the samples were collected, Hayabusa 2 launched back to earth where the samples were released into the atmosphere, where they landed in southern Australia in 2020. As opposed to burning up into the atmosphere due to the mission being complete, Hayabusa has had a mission extension and will now be targeting another asteroid, 1998 KY_26. It is estimated that it will arrive at the asteroid in 2031. The difference between Hayabusa 1 and Hayabusa 2 is night and day. One barley functioned and got its payload back, just in time, while the other was so successful that it had a mission extension for the next decade. It is amazing how much improvement can be made in a mere decade.

Artist's impression of Hayabusa2 firing its ion thrusters, Credit: DLR German Aerospace Center

JAXA MASCOT rovers, Credit: CNN

Artistic rendering of Hayabusa collecting a surface sample, Credit: JGarry

resources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2