Wed, 22 May 2013 08:28:39 -0700 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla 1.1.4 & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349180#Comment_349180 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349180#Comment_349180 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 15:00:03 -0800 Osmosis replica Titanics so they can live out their Victorian period drama fantasies of spitting on poor people and groping maids.

Other rich douchebags are doing what you're supposed to do when your personal net worth outstrips a small country: sending people to motherfucking Mars.

Dennis Tito, you mad, beautiful, insanely rich douchebag. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349191#Comment_349191 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349191#Comment_349191 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:29:16 -0800 Magnulus best efforts. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349222#Comment_349222 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349222#Comment_349222 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:34:48 -0800 Purple Wyrm http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349260#Comment_349260 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349260#Comment_349260 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:04:02 -0800 sneak046
. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349313#Comment_349313 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349313#Comment_349313 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 08:14:25 -0800 256 a) There are a lot of proposed Mars missions. Most of them go nowhere.
but
b) Tito is a bit more credible than some proponents, because he is both a millionaire and a former JPL engineer.
but
c) They don't actually have the money. Tito is funding the "Inspiration Mars Foundation"; the Foundation is supposed to fund the mission itself through philanthropic donations. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349359#Comment_349359 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349359#Comment_349359 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:09:40 -0800 Oddcult
Red Bull might be able to, and if they could, probably would. They're whose doors I'd be knocking on if I were Tito. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349377#Comment_349377 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349377#Comment_349377 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:22:36 -0800 256
On the other hand: Imagine being in a pitch meeting. You are the most powerful and brilliant ad exec in the history of selling snow to Eskimos. A pack of nerds have arrived and are trying to tell you that their plan - to send a couple of senior citizens in a can around but not to the surface of Mars - is going to increase the sales of the company you represent by two billion dollars plus profit.

Yeah. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349390#Comment_349390 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349390#Comment_349390 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 21:18:45 -0800 curb kill those two seniors, to boot! Ka-ching! ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349398#Comment_349398 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349398#Comment_349398 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 03:42:37 -0800 Oddcult
For any company that's actually got, say, ten or twenty times the cash reserves, it should be a pretty easy decision to make and the only difficulty would be outbidding everyone else who wanted to do it.

Hell, there are probably around fifty private individuals in the world that are liquid enough to fund this. The problem, really, is demonstrating that it's actually viable with the available technology. If that can be done, I've got no doubt that there are enough companies or people vain enough to dedicated to human advancement enough to buy themselves a place in history.

Forget cryogenics, this is how to become immortal. ]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349401#Comment_349401 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349401#Comment_349401 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 05:01:24 -0800 Finagle http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349402#Comment_349402 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=11000&Focus=349402#Comment_349402 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 05:23:52 -0800 Oddcult