Drug fueled space program

[Anonymous No.10082603]

At the height of his career drug dealer pablo escobar earned about 50 billion dollars per year (adjusted for inflation in 2017), the total cost of the apollo program was 100 billion dollar.

Hypothetical question: if he really wanted to, could he have made his own private moon program with at least one flight?

he clearly had more money than nasa but the downside of being chased by the law and also being in a third world country. but would it have been possible?

[Anonymous No.10082612]

Probably

[Anonymous No.10082618]

possible? Yes

probable? No

What would be his motive anyway? Launder his cash on the moon?

[Anonymous No.10082634]

>>10082618
>What would be his motive anyway?
Disregard motive, imagine he really wanted it. for some reason.

It's not so far fetched, people do crazier stuff for ego or just on a whim.

Hell, Jeff Bezos is trying to do exactly this and he made his money selling shitty hipster stuff, which is statistically way more addictive than cocaine

[Anonymous No.10082639]

>>10082634
What more do you want for us? Elon Musk alone is proof that if you throw enough money at it, a space program will be successful.

[Anonymous No.10082643]

>>10082639
>Elon Musk alone is proof that if you throw enough money at it, a space program will be successful.
I said a MOON program, he hasnt done that yet.

Also, funnily enough, elon musk has way less money and has the advantage of operating legally and from a first world country.

pablo escobar is literally the opposite: way more money, way shittier country, operating illegaly.

also using 1980s tech which surely its not so bad

[Anonymous No.10082970]

>>10082603
I don't think so.

50 billions is a lot of money but not enough to bribe all participants of a space mission to ignore where that money came from.

all participating parties would make themselves collaborators with crime. many people in space programs have military background.

there would be too much conflict of interest imho, even with all the money in the world

AND THATS A GOOD THING!

[Anonymous No.10082976]

>>10082603
The moment he tries to develop advanced missile technologies the US army would move in and fuck his shit up.

What he would need to do would be take control of a government, ally himself with the US, and then he could develop whatever he wants.

[Anonymous No.10083084]

No, absolutely not. It would be completely impossible and wouldn't even leave the planning stage. He's an internationally recognized drug lord infamous for bombings, assassinations, etc. The world wouldn't tolerate him developing long range rocket technology and guidance systems. If he tried to build a launch pad, it would be detected almost immediately and then bombed into dust by a multinational force. Any scientists or engineers he recruited would be killed.

Just like what happened to Gerald Bull during Project Babylon. He was hired by Saddam Hussein in 1988 to develop long range superguns aimed at Israel. Construction started in 1989 and he was assassinated in 1990.

[Anonymous No.10083244]

>>10082970
No it isn't. I don't care where the money came from, as long as its use isn't actively tainted by it.

[Anonymous No.10083265]

>>10082618
So crazy it just might work

[Anonymous No.10083276]

>>10082970
>all participating parties would make themselves collaborators with crime
>except they all use tax dollars anyway

And taxation without representation isn't a crime?

[Anonymous No.10083357]

>>10082976
>What he would need to do would be take control of a government, ally himself with the US, and then he could develop whatever he wants.
woah, this is actually genius, he almost became president of colombia, he could have just shot some communists and then he would have had undisputed us backing

[Anonymous No.10083363]

>>10083084
>He's an internationally recognized drug lord infamous for bombings, assassinations, etc.
what if he did it before the assasinations started, keeping just the drug trade and knowing he has to mantain a more humane facade for this endfeavour

[Anonymous No.10084495]

>>10083363
It would make no difference. People already knew he was a drug lord before he started a bombing spree and before he blew up that airliner. He was already on the DEA's radar at that point. What do you think would happen if he suddenly shifted efforts into building a launch pad, recruiting rocket scientists, developing rocket engines, building large fuel tanks, etc.

He would go from being a target of the DEA to a target of the rest of the world. No country on Earth would tolerate a drug lord having long range rocket technology. International intelligence agencies would be in a race to kill him ASAP.