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OceanGate co-founder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050 (nypost.com)

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[–] Faresh@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That reminds me of that scene in the Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where

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the Golgafrinchans invent an incoming world-ending tragedy, in an excuse to send into space all people with useless/supefluous jobs (bureaucrats, hairdressers, telephone cleaners, etc.) to a new planet, saying that the remaining parts of society will come after.

[–] CeruleanRuin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

One must not forget that after including people like telephone sanitizers under what they deemed superfluous, the Golgafrinchans all died out from a plague contracted from a dirty telephone.