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The Financial Future of Space Travel

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-one-way-tickets dept.

gurps_npc writes " This CNNMoney story discusses the financial future of space travel. In particular it gives some nice names and numbers, such as Bezos, Musk and 3554 Amun. 3554 Amun is an small metalic asteroid that crosses Earth's pass (not on collission course) and contains over 20 trillion US dollars worth of precious metal. It is a great fact to know when trying to explain to flat-earth types that don't understand why we waste money on space travel."

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  1. Re:+tagging beta by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "tagging beta" is an acronym for "tea bagging". I can't be the only one who caught that.

  2. Re:+tagging beta (more OT than your momma!) by thc69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wow...imagine what would happen if Steve Ballmer met Dick Cheney. Or, let's combine Steve Ballmer with Dick Cheney...we could call it The Terminator and send it to take care of our wars...

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