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Originally Posted by Chingas
These guys have a lot more money than brains. Id be 140 years old before this thing could turn a profit from any tangible business venture (not sucking up grant money etc) and that is the hydrogen fuel depot only. The mining portion is an utter pipe dream.
Sometimes excessively rich people annoy the hell out of me. I hold no ill will what so ever towards their wealth, it's the freaking ######ed ideas they come up with to piss it away that bugs me. And I think the part that really bugs me is that deep down I know that they will somehow profit from this, likely by unconventional ways, ie money from national budgets.
There are millions of other things that could use the incredible effort and money that will be put into this ridiculous wet dream contrived by a pack of wankers.
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How is this a ######ed idea? Just because it's not completely cost effective right from the get go does not, in the least, make it a ######ed idea.
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“The investors aren’t making decisions based on a business plan or a return on investment,” he told me. “They’re basing their decisions on our vision.”
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These are people extremely interested in space exploration and space science. Most of them involved have a background in space projects (the president and chief engineer was flight director for the Mars rover missions, for instance), or are adventurers. Just because they have the money to do something you'll never have the ability to do is no reason to dislike them.