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In ancient times, the wealthy built monuments of stone. During the Renaissance, the wealthy supported great artists to create monuments in paint and sculpture. More recently, the wealthy have supported composers who created "monuments" in music.

In the 20th century, the wealthy sponsored the pioneers of flight, gaining immortality in the record books. For instance, Howard Hughes will be remembered not for his senile insanity but for his aviation genius.

Allen, Ansari, Bezos, Carmack (nice alphabet), and the rest are following in a literally age-old tradition of putting private wealth to creating "monuments" beyond the reach of the rest of us.
Posted by: Yagotta B. Kidding   Posted on: 10/06/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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If I had the money  AbsolutelyNot | 10/06/04
Diva, we agree on something!!!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/06/04
Window seat  Roger Ramjet | 10/07/04
Why? Because they are the forward thinkers.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/06/04
Heinlein  Yagotta B. Kidding | 10/06/04
why? because they can  V Sanders | 10/07/04
Monuments  Yagotta B. Kidding | 10/06/04
I am certain that's part of it.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 10/06/04
What dream is that?  voska | 10/06/04
no offense voska, but no more star trek for you  Monkey_MCSE | 10/06/04
Nothing Star Trek about it.  voska | 10/07/04
Pragmatic reasons for reaching the planets  asky | 10/06/04
Quarentine  Roger Ramjet | 10/07/04
will start with quarantine  asky | 10/07/04
Disease and Man's reaction  Roger Ramjet | 10/07/04
My math sux  Roger Ramjet | 10/07/04
It still does, but your point stands  asky | 10/07/04
What dream is that?  carrollj@... | 10/07/04
return of the geeks  asky | 10/07/04

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