Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte is bringing creepy to space by dressing like a clown.
High stakes poker player and Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte, a clown, became the world’s seventh space tourist and first-ever poker playing Cosmonaut yesterday, blasting off in a Russian Soyuz spaceship from the back of a donkey cart somewhere in Kazakhastan.
Laliberte reportedly paid $35 million, or about twice as much as he’s lost online at Full Tilt, for the opportunity, which he’s using for the do-gooding purpose of promoting clean water.
Says Laliberte on the mission:
“I needed it to be the right time and for the right purpose. This is the time. And the purpose is clear: to raise awareness on water issues to humankind on planet Earth.”
Also raising awareness on water issues to humankind on planet Earth (WTF talks like that?), these three girls.
August 22, 2014 9:04 am,
Thnkas for taking the time to post. It’s lifted the level of debate
February 25, 2015 8:37 am,
IJWTS wow! Why can’t I think of things like that?