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		pohl on Oct 19, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA Ames’ Worden reveals DARPA-funded ‘Hundred Ye... A bajillionaire whose name is hardly household might be able to buy eternal, historical name recognition by taking such a one-way trip as a way of "going out in style".

korch on Oct 20, 2010 [–]

That's kind of what happened in the plot of Sagan's book(and film) Contact.

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