@Concerned_Catgirl Eh, he's at least using his money to push technological improvement, which is better than what what most millionaires do. Including improved renewable energy and electric car technology, which are really important technologies. Seeing as most other rich people tend to go for "lets spend our money on more money" and "Lets lobby the government to make everything shitty", I think he's coming out ahead. :/
@bob @Concerned_Catgirl But remember, that was a test rocket. He thought it was very likely it would fail and explode. Thus, putting anything important on it would have been silly. The usual load put on these rockets is just a stack of bricks. Thus, trading that out for something silly makes perfect sense.
@Concerned_Catgirl @bob Personally, I would probably have reached out to like, colleges and high schools or something, and asked if any of them wanted to have their science classes put together some cheap experiments or sensors or whatever, and send those up. Thats a lot of effort and expense I don't think Spacex wanted to invest though, and I can see why. XD