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SpaceX Moon Passenger Yusaku Maezawa Has 20,000 Applicants to be Girlfriend He Takes on Journey

posted by janrinok on Saturday January 18 2020, @12:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the to-the-moon-Alice dept.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:

from the to-the-moon-Alice dept.

SpaceX moon passenger Yusaku Maezawa has 20,000 applicants to be girlfriend he takes on journey:

Yusaku Maezawa, the Japanese billionaire set to become the first private passenger on a SpaceX Starship, is seeking a partner to "go to the moon with him." The 44-year-old Japanese drummer-turned-entrepreneur, who founded clothing site Zozotown, has begun an unusual quest to find a female partner to take to the moon -- and he's reportedly got over 20,000 applicants.

In partnership with Elon Musk's SpaceX, Maezawa announced in 2018 he would be going to the moon. As part of his mission, he bought up six to eight seats on the company's next-generation Starship and told reporters he would be asking six to eight artists to head to lunar orbit with him. The project, known as #dearMoon, is scheduled to launch in 2023.

[...] As of Thursday, AbemaTV said 21,700 people had applied, with 16 hours left until the deadline.

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @12:38AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @12:38AM (#944817)

    yusaku wants a woman

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:13AM (5 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:13AM (#944825) Homepage

    " he bought up six to eight seats on the company's next-generation Starship and told reporters he would be asking six to eight artists to head to lunar orbit with him. "

    "Artists," indeed. He doesn't just want a woman up there with him. He wants a Space Bukakke. And he wants to either keep the only video as the achievement of his lifelong dream, or sell the video to perverts worldwide to recoup his losses -- And recoup those losses he will.

    If there are any two things at the forefront of both technology and fetishism, it's the Japanese and the porn industry. But the Germans won't be beat in that regard, keep an eye out for the sequel: Space Scheiße.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by takyon on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:40AM (2 children)

      by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:40AM (#944831) Journal

      https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/18/17872822/yusaku-maezawa-spacex-dear-moon-artists-roundtable-culture [theverge.com]

      Body painters, porn groove musicians, porno film directors, fetishistic fashion designers, erotic dancers, nude photographers, trashy romance novelists, silicone sculptors, erect architects...

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      • (Score: 4, Funny) by TheGratefulNet on Saturday January 18 2020, @02:48AM (1 child)

        by TheGratefulNet (659) on Saturday January 18 2020, @02:48AM (#944846)

        what about rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull-dikes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists?

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        • (Score: 3, Funny) by deimtee on Saturday January 18 2020, @08:07AM

          by deimtee (3272) on Saturday January 18 2020, @08:07AM (#944913) Journal

          Do they all have badges?

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    • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Saturday January 18 2020, @04:34AM

      by stretch611 (6199) on Saturday January 18 2020, @04:34AM (#944878)

      He wants a Space Bukakke.

      The crude and rude pervert in me wonders how the painting of ones face differs with the absence of gravity. I assume it continues in the direction it is aimed until it hits something... but one can only guess what direction that may be with any "dribblers" that need to "shake" it out. It is liable to go everywhere... and I know I would not want to be there for that. And one hopes the equipment/instrument panels "have protection" against "spills."

      But, a warning for the women out there... In space no one can hear you scream...

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @07:41AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @07:41AM (#944908)

      "Artists," indeed. He doesn't just want a woman up there with him. He wants a Space Bukakke. And he wants to either keep the only video as the achievement of his lifelong dream, or sell the video to perverts worldwide to recoup his losses -- And recoup those losses he will.

      Hey my wife's on that list, have some respect.

  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:35AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @01:35AM (#944829)

    "woman"