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Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ... by Turing_Machine on Thursday July 27, 2017 @11:01PM (#14871608)
Yep. At one time a mark of being super-rich was owning a megayacht and a palatial estate.

Nowadays you haven't really arrived until you can afford to fund your own space program. :-)

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Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ... by icelancer on Friday July 28, 2017 @12:12AM (#14871909)
As stated in the show Billions, sports franchises are how people are knighted in today's society.

Space travel may be another level above that.

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Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ... by walshemj on Friday July 28, 2017 @06:58AM (#14873325)
Really form my UK perspective a businessman buying a football club is a sign of either insanity or criminality some times both.
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Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ... by icelancer on Friday July 28, 2017 @07:20AM (#14873414)
Oh, that's very much how it is in America. Our knights are also mostly white-collar criminals and/or insane.
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Re:SpaceX Is Now One of the World’s Most Valuable Privately ... by gozur88 on Friday July 28, 2017 @12:40PM (#14875514)
Well, you need some way to separate yourself from those that are merely rich.
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