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Topic: Lord British in space! (Read 14715 times)
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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While I hope Richard gets back ok, it would be kinda funny to hear the transcript of a problem:
"Houston, we have a problem."
"Sorry, I cannot help thee with that."
(I know it's not NASA, stfu)
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Nija
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How the fuck did he end up with $30 million to blow? Did he get in on the Amazon IPO?
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Montague
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How the fuck did he end up with $30 million to blow? Did he get in on the Amazon IPO?
He sold Origin Systems to EA in 1992 for $35 million. Invest that money wisely before the tech runup and that's a lot of salad. |
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Righ
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Teaching the world Google-fu one broken dream at a time.
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Also, he may have paid $30 million for the flight but he in turn has been paid by a number of sponsors, so he's only out of pocket by a fraction of that. It was in the article or something. Hitler wasn't.
If he invested his money in stocks wisely, he's recently lost a fair amount of it. We've have heard from him about that, but in space no-one can hear you scream.
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Lum
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He also made quite a bit of money when Destination Games was sold to NCsoft (not sure as to the exact amount but it was a significant portion of NCsoft stock).
That being said he postponed his trip a few times due to the cost.
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Lantyssa
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He did say in some interview this was costing most of his fortune.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Ubvman
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He has several sponsors I believe, one of them is Seiko: SEIKO Spring Drive Spacewalk: The Quiet Revolution goes into spaceSeiko Spring Drive SpacewalkHe's wearing a nice watch indeed:   Its a very expensive watch, several thousand dollars - but my other hobby is collecting watches, so I'm gonna have a look at it... On another note, People here are so blasé - either about space travel or even gamers in space. C'mon - its LORD BRITISH IN SPACE!!!! Tough crowd - I'm kinda stoked for him...    |
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schild
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That watch is cooler than Garriot or Tabula Rasa.
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penfold
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tkinnun0
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It's a watch. But if buying watches gets more people into space, go buy watches!
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Ubvman
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For closure... Other forum posters fervent wishes for fiery heat shield failure re-entries notwithstanding: He's BAAAACK! |
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Dtrain
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For closure... Other forum posters fervent wishes for fiery heat shield failure re-entries notwithstanding: He's BAAAACK!Did he find his missing talent? |
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