PayPal Founder Wants To Launch Satellites

XNormal writes "Elon Musk, founder of Zip2 and PayPal is planning to build a launcher for small satellites. Much of his personal fortune come from the IPO of PayPal and subsequent sale to eBay. The amount of money he plans to spend on this project is not much more than Denis Tito spent on his space station visit. The difference is that this venture actually tries to do something productive. Elon is also behind the Life to Mars mission."

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[Freston Youseff]

multi-millionaires and space travel? Does the money really "go your head" so much that you must "look down" upon the world from space because you're better than everyone else? Just look at that n'Sync idiot Lance who never got to go in to space; he just didn't have enough money. Clearly merchantilist cretins like Dennis Tito think they're better than everyone else "down on earth" and have this sickening Freudian complex. What'll we see next? Bill Gates building a space platform in Redmond to look down from his private space elevator? Sometimes I think millionaires have nothing better to do than be condescending!

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[bkontr]

The satellites probably have remote image sensing equipment for seeing those exposed credit card #s from outer space. 'Cause that's just the type of *Pal* PayPal is.