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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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  1. What is it about by Freston+Youseff · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    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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  2. Top 10 Things I Want To See Destroyed!!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    10. Pop-up Ads
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  3. Here's What Will Go Down by WookieOnTheRun · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Sattelite launched, however not regulated by NASA since its not really a sattelite. It docks on the International Space Station because they want better food transfers, however it inadvertantly steals all the food from the space station and no longer will respond to inquiries and complaints. Yay!

  4. More practical solution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait


    What he should do is build a laucher and shoot all those smelly fucking liberal hippy linux using faggots into space. Or better yet, shoot them only a mile high so we can have the pleasure of watching them splat when they come back down. Or shoot them into the ocean since that's the closest those filthy fuckers will ever come to a bath.

  5. Re:Evil by bkontr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

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  6. The histroy of PayPal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

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  7. Give Up! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Give it up you ignorant fucktard!
    SSN or not you have been tracked since the day you were born. None of your information is as private as you think it is.
    If fact the moment you went on this wacko crusade to declare yourself "soveriegn" you have been under more survielance than you ever imagined.
    The US goverment doesn't let anyone stray too far from the herd.
    Suck it up and do things the right way. Conform and your life will be easier.

  8. nig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    you niglet