Illuminati in Space

[M Holmes]

THEY're trying to Immanetize the Eschaton I tell ya...

-- A Friend of Fernando Poo



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>          Just when you thought the continuiiiiing story of "Mir in
>          Space" couldn't get any weirder, another Western business
>          partner has emerged to save Mir and convert it into that
>          anti-news stalwart "an orbiting space hotel for
>          billionaires". This time, who should it be but Gold & Appel
>          Transfers, of the Cayman Islands. Yup, "Gold & Appel
>          Transfers": last observed in Shea and Wilson's ILLUMINATUS!
>          trilogy as the front organisation for neophile outlaw
>          Hagbard Celine and his Legion of Dynamic Discord.
>          Terrifyingly for the few who still believe that book to be
>          fiction, G&A is a real company with funds of over $300
>          million. President Walt Anderson made his money as
>          co-founder of Esprit Telecom, and is now a major investor in
>          the Space Frontier Foundation and the Roton, the orbital
>          transfer system that looks like a beanie. G&A have already
>          offered $21 million to the Russian government to maintain
>          Mir in a serviceable orbit, with more, they say, to come.
>          It's unclear whether the group of investors can really
>          rustle up the huge amounts needed to maintain Mir; but
>          wouldn't it be nice if, when the ISS finally boots in the
>          22nd century, NASA found that a bunch of Discordians had
>          beaten them to it?
>          http://www.mercurycenter.com/premium/front/docs/mir13.htm
>  - financier "reclusive"; Cayman Islands last outcropping of Atlantis
>          http://www.reston.com/nasa/watch.html
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