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Re:Moore's Law for Everything by Dylan16807 on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @05:02PM (#26482932)
It's a level of lifestyle that allows a person to donate his personal sports car to replace an inert mass, because he'll buy another car.

While he and many others could buy personal space launches, that launch is not a demonstration of such. He wasn't paying for it, and it wasn't for him.

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Re:Moore's Law for Everything by heleninboodler on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @11:32PM (#26486210)
I could afford to donate a $100k sports car to be launched into space if I really wanted to. Lots of people here could. How many billions of dollars short of being able to set off a chain of events that actually make that happen do you think I am?
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Re:Moore's Law for Everything by Dylan16807 on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:25AM (#26487605)
That's the thing, being at an influential and part-marketing position at a space company isn't inherently a lifestyle thing. It's a rare opportunity but I could easily see a world where some engineer's car went up instead.
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Re:Moore's Law for Everything by heleninboodler on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:31PM (#26516819)
> being at an influential and part-marketing position at a space company isn't inherently a lifestyle thing

I think it's more "vying for the 'richest person on earth' title" that's important here.

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