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by bvanderveen 874 days ago
It never fails to amaze me how tasteless and unimaginative your run-of-the-mill rich asshole is. Without even getting into housing, education, or whatever other feel-good virtue-signalling—this is seriously the coolest toy you can think to buy with 10e8-9 USD?
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Some of them have the right idea. There's one guy who built a ship to launch cars into space. He flung one that went around the sun and it was pretty funny. He likes blowing stuff up too.
Homie, it's just an advertisement
Playing Captain Nemo is honestly a pretty decent strategy. I think I'd personally go for the volcano base, but the Nautilus method is pretty epic too.

Either that or fund any FTL research I could get my hands on. I want to break that particular barrier.