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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."
I guess hes now going to want to carve his name int the moon too
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It always seemed like PayPal was founded by some kind of space cadet. We shoulda seen this coming.
Elon is also behind the Life to Mars mission.
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i thought janet reno sent him back to cuba or something....
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Maybe he should put some of that vast fortune into preventing paypal from sucking.
You too can invest in this state of the art method of sending stuff into space. But be forwarned, just because rocket-pal sends things into space they arent an actualy aero-space firm, so ifyou lose all your investment/cargo with them its not insured!
Fly rocket-pal today!
They will take your satellite, hold onto it for a few months, and ignore you if you ask about the status. When you do finally get a hold of someone, they will remind you that per the terms of the service, your satellite was %100 at risk. At that point they will inform you that they have flagged your satellite for possible abuse, and already reviewed your case and decided to keep your satellite. If you wish to contest this you will have to go into binding satellite arbitration. http://www.paypalsucks.com/news.shtml
Before: "Sorry, Your money is locked in the Limbo account."
After: "Sorry, Your money is circling above the Earth."
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Yeah, but if Carmack went to the moon/mars then the place would suddenly become infested by grey demons and ugly pig things with big teeth. Subsequently, they'd be sucked into hell and have to battle their way through before returning to save earth...
It is a front for the construction of his EVIL Space Fortress! When the lasers are raining hot, burning death upon us all, YOU will be sorry you used Paypal to buy that anime video!
it's not a space flight, it's an interstratum transport venture
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Re "interstratum transport venture":
(1) What the heck is it?
(2) Could you say "interstratum transport venture" 6 times fast?
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Heh, so thats where all that "lost" PayPal money went.
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haha, your shift was down
"But does he have staying power?" asks NASA official.
Good question... is that a mutant power, like telekinesis?
"STAND BACK, Batman, he has STAYING POWER!".
-- Terry
This is all strongly reminiscent of the heyday of Communism and Socialism, when the bourgeoisie were hated from both ends: by the proles, because they had all the money, and by the intelligentsia, because of their tendency to spend it on lawn ornaments.
Actually, I imagine you're familiar with the prefix "inter-," meaning "between," already as well.
"Strata" are, uh, layers, basically. Generally stacked up on top of each other, as layers tend to do. Like geological layers, or the layers of a parfait or a Slurpee in one of those cool Strata cups. Or atmospheric layers. You know our atmosphere has layers, right? Troposphere, and, um, and so on. Oh, and "stratum" is the singular form of "strata," natch.
So what we've got here is a venture to transport something between atmospheric strata. Which is a fancy way of saying, it ain't going all the way into space so it doesn't count.
I guess. Your kilom't'rage may vary.
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He can send the order to randomly freeze another 200 accounts! Let the interest roll!
Excuse me, I don't mean to impose, but I am the ocean
Mind you falling is just a form of flying where the ground gets in your way.