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by mnw21cam 1881 days ago
It turns out that https://xkcd.com/893/ was posted almost ten years ago. Although he didn't actually get to walk on the moon, he still went there.
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The alt text is quite poignant.

> The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.

He didn't score the most points, but he got the most rebounds and assists.
This was the first thing I thought of. Thanks for posting.
I compared it with real data, the prediction is remarkably accurate:

https://twitter.com/msuvakov/status/1387525030083432451

Very accurate so far.