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Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. Is that profitable?

13Dec

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Technology

Elon Musk wants to colonize Mars. Is that profitable?

Austin, TX CNN Business — Elon Musk has spent nearly two decades rallying SpaceX fans around his goal of colonizing Mars, something world governments aren’t currently attempting — in part because of the unfathomable price tag such a mission will entail. Musk, the company’s CEO and chief engineer, refers to his interplanetary ambitions more like a sci-fi protagonist with a moral calling than an entrepreneur with a disruptive business plan. “If there’s something terrible that happens on Earth, either made by humans or natural, we want to have, like, life insurance for life as a whole,” Musk said during a virtual Mars conference on Aug. 31. “Then, there’s the kind of excitement and adventure.” ...

Dinner at Butler Moose raises money for young pancreatic cancer sufferer – Butler Eagle

7Oct

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Dinner at Butler Moose raises money for young pancreatic cancer sufferer – Butler Eagle

Aiden Bartley, 11, with a few of the dozens of raffle baskets that were donated for a fundraiser on his behalf on Saturday. Aiden, of Butler, is undergoing chemotherapy at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio for stage 4 pancreatic cancer. As those who came to the Butler Moose Lodge post 64 on Saturday to enjoy the pasta fundraiser to help he and his family continue treatment for his pancreatic cancer, Aiden Bartley, 11, just seemed like another preteen playing games on his phone. But Aiden knows a lot of people went out of their way and gave up half their weekend to put on the dinner. “I think it’s really cool,” Aiden said, barely looking up from slaying digital beings on the screen. “It sa...