Re: Jeff Bezos Says 'I Would Love To See A Trillion Humans Living In The Solar System'

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <[email protected]> writes:

> [Please read <https://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html> and use a
> standard _Usenet_ quotation style.]
>
> Jim Wilkins crossposted to alt.astronomy, rec.aviation.military,
> alt.economics without Followup-To:
>
> [Please don't to that again.]
>
>> "a425couple"  wrote [...]:
>>> | Jeff Bezos Says 'I Would Love To See A Trillion Humans Living In The
>>> | Solar System' — Then We Could Have '1,000 Mozarts And 1,000 Einsteins'
>>> | Jeannine Mancini
>> 
>> Then we should have 8 Mozarts now.
>
> Maybe we did/do have more.  I would already consider for singer-songwriters
> Elvis Presley, Elton John, ABBA (Björn Ulvaeus), David Bowie, Michael
> Jackson, Madonna, Katy Perry, Katie Melua; and for composers John Williams,
> Jerry Goldsmith, Dennis McCarthy, and Hans Zimmer, to be among them.  And
> there are so many (other) highly prolific songwriters who are writing songs
> for *other* people, and composers who write fantastic pieces (mainly for
> movies now) whom are seldom recognized.  YMMV.
>
> But it is obvious that those figures were not meant literally, so that is a
> straw man argument.
>
> F'up2 alt.astronomy (as ISTM to fit best there)

This is what happens when someone gets so rich that no one around him
ever corrects the shit he says. And the outlandish shit he DOES say
makes it to the press because it's hilarious.

Daniel
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