The Week contest: Space race
This week's question: Richard Branson reached the edge of space in a Virgin Galactic rocket this week, just days before Amazon founder Jeff Bezos planned to do the same in his Blue Origin shuttle. If Hollywood were to make a comedy about a space race among billionaires, what should it title the film?
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RESULTS:
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THE WINNER: "Buy Me to The Moon"
Bill Levine, Belmont, Massachussets
SECOND PLACE: "Bucks Rogers"
Timothy Griffith, Houston
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THIRD PLACE: "Rich Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Elisabeth Cernadas, New York City
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Deep Pocket Rockets"
Michael Rouse, Troy, Michigan
"Thrust Funds"
Phyllis Klein, New York City
"Lucre Skywalker"
Lidia Zidik, Reading, Pennsylvania
"The Plutocrats"
Larry Rifkin, Glastonbury, Connecticut
"Not So Hidden Figures"
Joe Ayella, Wayne, Pennsylvania
"Citizen Canaveral"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vermont
"Deep Pockets, Deep Space"
Ken Kellam III, Dallas
"The Rich Stuff"
Michael Rouse, Troy, Michigan
"Crazy Rich Astronauts"
Diane Ross, Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania
"The Moneymooners"
Stuart Burkhoff, Great Neck, New York
"Cash Of the Titans"
Doug Johnston, Erie, Pennsylvania
"Spacebills"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vermont
"Space, the Fiscal Frontier"
Chuck Hamilton, Redondo Beach, California
"The Big Bank Theory"
John Parry, Eldersburg, Maryland
"Two Cuckoos Flew Over the Rest"
Brian Levy, Pacific Palisades, California
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