Apparently, the super rich have developed a rather expensive taste for departing this Earth. Ironically, once their enterprises have had their way with the poor planet, we may all be forced to depart this Earth.
We should be reminded, as we enter into collective insolvency, that it is really the money harvested from all of us that is financing their self-indulgence.
No matter. Personally, I think we should go further and sign a bill into law to use taxpayer money to sponsor this exodus on a large scale. I think we'd all be far better off if we could jettison as many of the excessively efficient money grubbers as possible into the cold dark reaches of the Milky Way. And if they only whizzed by us as often as Comet Hale-Bopp, that would be too often. By the year 4530, perhaps we will have figured out how to defend ourselves against their exploitation.
In fact, they should feel free to follow the Comet Hale-Bopp to oblivion, much like the ignominious Heaven's Gate cult (hey, I even wrote a song about those guys -- Into the Sun). Or, perhaps we could arrange a Challenger-style disaster for them.
Super-rich still want to boldly go into space