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$800+m would fund a mission to Europa, maybe even including a lander/hydrobot for exploring under the ice. It would also well and truly get the 100 metre OWL telescope under way.
What did this man spend it on anyway? No human is truly worth that amount of money anyway. The late Dr Victor Chang would be much more valuable to the human race than that CEO.
Its so sad that CEO,s sports stars, models and actors get such rediculous amounts of money, that is far in excess of the actual work they do, wheras people on the forefront of scientific research (which is of much greater value to the human race) get so much less.
Take Tiger Woods. How can the ability to get a small white ball into 18 holes in less strokes that most other people justify he being paid orders of magnitude more than, say a paramedic who routinely saves human lives sometimes putting his/her own on the line to do so
Just think if that CEO DID fund a mission to Europa, and that mission discovered living organisms near volcanic vents inthe Europan ocean. he would become far more famous than any other rich person in history!
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