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10. "The world's most expensive roller coaster." - Um, hello. Oh, yeah, and the most

Sun Nov 2, 2014, 11:22 AM

Nov 2014

expensive verification of Ecclesiastes' observation (applied here to Branson) that "Vanity, vanity, all is vanity."

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Interesting op ed on The Virgin crash at Wired. [View all] kpete Nov 2014 OP

I *do* agree with it. scarletwoman Nov 2014 #2

I could not agree more nt MrScorpio Nov 2014 #3

When the European explorers went out to the New World, they tblue37 Nov 2014 #4

well said, tblue. n/t Brainstormy Nov 2014 #12

Sending humans to Mars would be an expensive stunt too. hunter Nov 2014 #5

Except it would be *our* collective stunt MannyGoldstein Nov 2014 #11

My grandfather was one of the many engineers who built that. hunter Nov 2014 #13

How many ordinary schlubs traveled at the dawn of passenger aviation? brooklynite Nov 2014 #6

"Ordinary schlubs" MannyGoldstein Nov 2014 #9

What tblue37 said. SheilaT Nov 2014 #7

Incredible how much money is out there... oldandhappy Nov 2014 #8

and getting us closer to Mars is somehow not also caviar? MisterP Nov 2014 #14