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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. +tagging beta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I always knew the slashdot editors were into tagging

    They should sue the makers of Brokeback Mountain -- they have major prior art on having massive amounts of male on male anal sex with Cowboy Neal for years now.

    1. Re:+tagging beta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Steve Ballmer can kill anyone he wants! Steve Ballmer throws chairs ALL the time and don't even think twice about it. This guy is so crazy and awesome that he flips out ALL the time. I heard that Steve Ballmer was eating at a diner. And when some dude dropped a spoon Ballmer killed the whole town. My friend Mark said that he saw Steve Ballmer totally uppercut some kid just because the kid opened a window.

      And that's what I call REAL Ultimate Power!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      [+] ballmer, nuts, psycho, carnivore, chair, throwing, fucking, kill, eric, schmidt, pussy

    2. 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.

    3. Re:+tagging beta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It is not an acronym. It's also not an anagram, if that is what your third grade intelligence thought you meant.

    4. Re:+tagging beta by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You've got an extra t floating around in there... so maybe it's like... teat bagging? If it was male on male it will still be grody, but if I had to choose between hairy man-boob or sack...

  2. Plus 5, Troll) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ballots. You could I've never seen and financial lubricatio4n. You

  3. We're no fan of you either by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You fuckhead.

  4. 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...

    --
    Procrastination -- because good things come to those who wait.
  5. Re:+tagging beta (more OT than your momma!) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    bah. chuck norris would pwn them both.