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Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/4\/14\/23025330\/elon-musk-twitter-offer-43-billion<\/a>
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This morning, Elon Musk, the current wealthiest man in the world, offered to buy Twitter outright for $43 billion<\/a> and take the company private. That is quite a lot of money to spend on a company that allows users to post their thoughts in 280-character increments.<\/p>\n

The shocking move had many at The Verge<\/em> wondering: what else could Musk spend $43 billion on? We thought we could provide some options in case Twitter\u2019s board decides they don\u2019t like the offer.<\/p>\n

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Elon\u2019s biggest dream is to start a settlement on Mars, but first, he is eager to construct a base on the surface of the Moon. \u201cIf you want to get the public real fired up, we got to have a base on the Moon,\u201d Musk said in 2017. \u201cThat\u2019d be pretty cool.\u201d He\u2019s reiterated that sentiment multiple times since then.<\/p>\n

Turns out, $43 billion would go quite a long way to getting people on the Moon. In fact, NASA is currently trying to send humans back to the Moon with its Artemis program \u2014 and Musk\u2019s SpaceX is getting big bucks from NASA to participate. Back when the program was first created in 2019, then NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine estimated NASA would need an extra $20 to $30 billion to fund the agency\u2019s return to the Moon<\/a> through the first landing. And one government audit anticipates NASA will spend $93 billion on Artemis between 2012 and 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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