[ExI] Arkyd

Dan dan_ust at yahoo.com
Mon Jun 3 20:05:46 UTC 2013


On Saturday, June 1, 2013 12:11 PM Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 6:12 AM, Alfio Puglisi <alfio.puglisi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> What? After lining up such an impressive list of "investors", as they call them:
>>
>> http://www.planetaryresources.com/team/
>>
>> now they need kickstarter to raise $1M? Must be a joke
>
> Every source of funding.  Also, this may be more PR than
> actual fundraising.

Could be. It might be a way of gauging public participation too. It's easy to take a poll and get many people saying they'd love to see X done, but getting them to pony up money might be a much better gauge. (Or maybe not. I'm just guessing.)

Regards,


Dan
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