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Jeff Bezos' Shot At Space
Brad Stone points out his story (due out in Monday's issue of Newsweek) on Jeff Bezos' secret space-oriented company, called Blue Origin -- which aims to launch tourists in a reusable vehicle. The article also touches on some of the other private space ventures you've been reading about lately. (One cool note about Blue Origin is that Neal Stephenson is an employee; I hope he's not allowed anywhere dangerous.)
So has Jeff applied for a patent on this yet?
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the federal patent office awarded a patent on space to jeff bezos today. as a result, all extraterrestrial bodies are required to license their existence.
"Jeff Bezos' secret space-oriented company, "
Not so secret anymore eh?
"Now he has a $1.7 billion fortune to try to convert that dream into reality."
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Ok, I know now why I have not got one
That quote is right underneath a picture of bald Mr. Bezos in which he very subtly resembles Jean Luc Picard ;-).
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So is this something else that no one will buy on Amazon, just like the Segway?
...the look on your mate's face as you OneClick a $20,000 space trip for him off his Amazon account...
I'm sure he'd patent the method used to get him there, wouldn't he? And the damn patent office would allow it, because the patent office is his bitch, right?
Then again, leaving Bezos in space might be just what we need...
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A excuse for Uber-latency on IRC. "My IRC host is on the moon."
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
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Really? I got one a few days after I got my talk show...
What? You don't have your own talk show yet, either?
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He should form a company to sell the machine that generated the reality distortion field he used on his investors.
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Now sit back and watch the funding come in. You too can have a space program for only a $100 investment.
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Billionaires secretly building rockets and other spaceships isn't all that surprising; but a Slashdot editor using "than" properly in lieu of the much more popular "then"... now *that's* what I call news!
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I think a few of these ventures are going to give a whole new meaning to their Dot-Com founders understanding of the term "Crash and Burn".
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Mars? Venus? Man, that's dangerous.
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