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Space Tourism Gets Another Passenger
Lothar+0 writes to tell us MSNBC is reporting that Daisuke Enomoto will be the next passenger to visit the international space station. Daisuke is a former executive of 'Livedoor' and creator of DICE-K who now lives in Hong Kong as a private investor. Apparently a long time self proclaimed fanboy of the Gundam anime series Daisuke says he will be dressing up as "Char Aznable" if the Russian agency will allow him to.
Are we talking about masked Char, sunglasses Char, or the older "normal" looking Char? Either way, hopefully he does a better job than this guy.
And my signature finally gets some action.
Like, every damn thing in that blurb is over my head. Dressing up as who? Dice-K? Livedoor? I saw an episode of that Gundam thing once and... let me just say it's humbling to know that billionaires have shitty taste, too.
Let's just be grateful he isn't a Sailor Moon fan instead.
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Here is a nice web site that discusses space tourism : http://www.space.cc/
Who said anything about menial labor? There are plenty of people with white-collar-type jobs that don't make near $50,000. However, you don't typically get rich by wasting your time playing videogames, watching television and engaging in cosplay. I don't think they tend to be extremely into sports, either (unless it's a sport that involves spending a lot of time with other rich guys, networking - like a skybox at a basketball game or golf memberships).
Seriously, the only rich people you see at basketball games tend to be actors, musicians and directors. When was the last time you saw a CEO (of the level that has 20 million spare bucks to go to space with) attend lots of laker's games?
And yes, I do think anime fans are somehow mentally deficient. Though I do like me some cowboy bebop (begrudgingly).