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Dreams of the Moon
Iron Sun writes "The Mars Institute has an interesting overview of past studies into sending people to the Moon, ranging from pre-Apollo plans by Werner von Braun to NASA studies just a few years old. Timely, given the continuing speculation as to whether the US is going to go back."
My late uncle, who I cannot name,
left me an inheritance of $50Bn
(yes, fifty billion USD) worth of
diamonds which are unfortunately
trapped in a space capsule on the
surface of the moon. I am seeking
investors who will help me recover
this capsule, and in return for
their investment I will be able to
reward them richly. A trusted
friend gave me your address and I
hope you will be discrete with my
message. The budget for a small
one-man expedition to the Lunar
Surface is approximately $30m, or
$18m if a Chinese rocket is used.
I am therefore inviting you to
join in this unique opportunity
with a guaranteed return of %1000
on your investment, which can be
as little as $1m. Yes, if you
will provide me with just one
million USD, I will on recovery
of the lunar diamonds, repay you
with TEN MILLION USD. We are
also selling one excursion trip
to the Moon, a round trip with
unlimited stopovers, for the low
low price of $12m.
Yours sincerely,
Abubakar_Ibrahim@yahoo.ng
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Can I accept it on behalf of someone else? I have a small list of people I'd like to volunteer ;)
All of which presently reside inside a Hollywood soundstage.
They were able to accomplish the entire trip over a single weekend, including building the rocket.
Of course, the best reason for going is the replentish our supply of Cheese!
In case you didn't see before, a previous Slashdot article on returning to the moon.
So you mean we're really going to send people to sneak into the Beijing soundstage that the Chinese are gonna use and plant this stuff there?
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." -- Dark Helmet