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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 6109340" data-attributes="member: 177">Let us just list a few of the billionaire wandering around (numbers from Forbes)...Elon Musk: $2.7 billion - I list him separately, as he's already in the space game with Space X.Bill Gates:  $66 billionWarren Buffet: $46 billionMichael Bloomberg: $25 billionJeff Bezos (Amazon.com) $23.2 billionForrest Mars (candy magnate): $17 billion(two other "Mars candy family'" on Forbes list) - $17 billion eachSteve Ballmer (Microsoft) $15.9 billionMichael Dell (Dell computers): $14.6 billionMark Zuckerberg (Facebook): $9 billionEric Schmidt (Google): $7.5 BillionSir Richard Branson: $4.2 billionRoss Perot: $3.5 billionGeorge Lucas: $3.3 billionStephen Spielberg: $3.2 billionOprah Winfrey: $2.7 billionIssac Perlmutter: (Marvel) $2.3 billionIf folks like this were willing to get together to fund it, yes, it could happen.  It is less than 10% of Bill Gates' net worth!  And really, how hard would it be to sell to people *named* Mars?!?Imagine, if you will, that you got the last four folks on my list on board - Oprah, Marvel Entertainment, and the two most famous names in sci-fi movies ever?  Pipe dream, perhaps, but if not... media gold!</blockquote>