Some people have too much money and don’t want to reinvest it because then it becomes even more – the well-known Uncle Scrooge McDuck effect. Then it goes to other realms. And there, crazy projects are often justified by even crazier ones. In his new “Krone” series “Between Heaven and Earth”, author and chemist Christian Maehr understands both big and small things – always with a wink.
One way to throw money out the window in the most spectacular way is private space travel, a flight to the moon, to Mars and so on. First, it goes into orbit; a few billionaires offer such trips for millionaires – but these are marketing events. Of course, no one is saying, “That’s a cool way to burn a ton of money.” They talk about the “curiosity”, the all-encompassing curiosity of our species, discovering worlds “no human eye has ever seen”. Texts from science fiction series. But what’s behind it?
Source: Krone
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