🐱 Billionaire looking for cosmic booty call

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This billionaire is looking for a girlfriend to take to the moon

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has opened an online application for a girlfriend who will 'go to the moon with him' on a SpaceX aircraft.
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Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa has opened an online application for a girlfriend who will “go to the moon with him” on a SpaceX aircraft.

Maezawa, whose worth was pinned at $2 billionby the most recent Forbes estimate, put down a deposit with Elon Musk’s company to be the first private customer of the rocket, the Verge reported in 2018. It’s anticipated that his trip could take place as soon as 2023, and as the date looms closer, Maezawa wants to reserve a spot for someone special.


His advertisement invites a future girlfriend to take part in his moon trip and a “serious matchmaking documentary” titled Full Moon Lovers. An application for the role, which Maezawa appears to be taking very seriously, is listed on a website.

“With that future partner of mine, I want to shout our love and world peace from outer space,” he wrote on the site, which also includes “conditions” for applicants: They must be females older than 20-years-old and “always positive.” Applicants are also asked their height and their “impression of Yusaku Maezawa.”

The application is due by Jan. 17, and after a thorough screening process, the final pick will be announced in March. The short-listed applicants will have intimate dates with Maezawa before he reaches a decision.

Maezawa is the founder of Japan’s largest online fashion store Zozotown, and he’s known as an art collector. He bought a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting in 2017 for a little over a $100 million.


Maezawa secured between six to eight other seats on the rocket to take artists along with him, whom he said could be “inspired” from the trip, according to the Verge. Musk did not reveal how much Maezawa paid, but it was enough to partially fund the development of the rocket.

“It makes a difference,” Musk said in 2018 about Maezawa’s determination. “He puts his money where his mouth is. He’s legit.”

Perhaps Maezawa’s elaborate marketing—ahem, love campaign proves Musk right.

“Why not be the ‘first woman’ to travel to the moon?” Maezawa’s tweeted Sunday, helpfully offering a reminder that a woman has never been on the moon.
But as the Verge points out, SpaceX’s rocket won’t actually land on the moon; the aircraft will orbit around it and return. Hopefully, Maezawa’s future girlfriend won’t mind.
 
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Maezawa secured between six to eight other seats on the rocket to take artists along with him, whom he said could be “inspired” from the trip, according to the Verge. Musk did not reveal how much Maezawa paid, but it was enough to partially fund the development of the rocket.
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I know he's probably an alien already, but please take Hirohiko Araki.
 
This guy is fucking nuts for putting his trust in Mr. Footinmouth, but I'm definitely interested in seeing this happen.

Also, I'd imagine pulling out in space could have some major consequences.
 
It looks like @jamescagewhite has really let himself go. Very cool very swag.

 
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Not to mention that commercial space travel won't be available until long after this guy is dead.
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I disagree. The only thing holding back commercial space travel is frankly absurd safety concerns (as well as cost, but that's where the billionaires come in).
Although there were a few early disasters that proved quite fatal, all of the moonshot Apollo missions had an excellent safety record, all while using technology that today would be considered borderline medieval. What ruined the dream of regular space travel was the shuttle program and it's two accidents. Which isn't a problem in and of itself. The real problem is that we as a culture are no longer willing to accept sacrifice. As many as 20k civilians died on the Oregon Trail. Men, women, children. Today hailed as unfortunate but necessary for the western USA to be successfully colonized. Meanwhile, we'll barely accept a number as low as a few dozen deaths in our space program. Just two shuttle accidents and NASA gets cold feet regarding the entire concept. Yeah, the shuttle fleet was aging and it would be expensive to replace, and maybe the technology was a dead end; but giving up after just two accidents that resulted from an aging fleet is downright absurd defeatism.

Want to know why we don't have a colony on the moon? Because we don't want it bad enough. We don't want to send possibly 20k astronauts to their deaths. The Chinese are willing to do that, though. They don't give a shit about anything other than the economic cost of it all. And, unless their Earth-based economy tanks first, that might just mean they get to own the solar system while NASA wastes time and money on fucking telescopes. "At least they're safe!" "At least we won't get funding cut when something goes wrong!" Pathetic.
 
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Interesting to see the kind of shit people will come up with when they don't know what to do with their massive amounts of money.
Quite a childish behaviour from a man with 3 fucking kids. But he seems like your average yuppie "self-made" "entrepreneur" so being spoiled is a given.
Being a brat and a Jap weirdness and eccentric retardation is a given.
 
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