They are not coming back for us.
One man is worth four hundred billion dollars and owns a rocket company. Others are building the machines that will do your work for a fraction of your salary. None of this is a conspiracy — it is a press release.
The arithmetic of escape has never changed: whoever has the money leaves first. That was true of every flood, every plague, every empire on its way out. The only variable is who counts as rich enough on the day.
So we are buying a ship. Not as a figure of speech — with money, the way they did it. One dollar at a time, from everyone, until the number on this page stops being small.
The price of leaving.
No projections and no rounding up. This is what the money has to reach, and how many of us that means.
| Milestone | Seats needed |
|---|---|
| A launch nobody can ignore | 10,000 |
| A serious offer to a serious builder | 1,000,000 |
| A ship, and a crew to fly it | 100,000,000 |
| More than the richest man alive | 400,000,000,000 |
The last line is what he is worth today. Every other page that asks you for money hides its arithmetic; this one prints it, and updates it as the seats fill.
To one person, who is building this.
Your dollar goes to the independent creator of this page, named on every receipt. No company in between, no foundation, no fund with a board.
Nothing is withheld for servers. Nobody takes a management fee. The money accumulates in the open, the number on this page is the number, and the day it buys something you will read it here first — you are on the manifest.
Everyone who gives has a seat.
A dollar puts you on the manifest. That is the whole promise, and it is kept in public: your position is the order in which you came, and nobody arriving later can take it from you. Seat number 1 exists exactly once.
From twenty dollars you get a word. From a hundred, a message — and it stands at the top of the manifest until someone gives more and takes it from you. You choose whether your name appears or whether the seat stays anonymous. Both are honoured; neither is judged.
Those who boarded early will be remembered as having boarded early. That is not a legal guarantee of anything. It is simply how lists work, and this one is public.
Watch the seats fill.
An Android app: the manifest, the price of leaving, and where the money goes. It takes no payment and collects no data — seats are claimed here, on this page.
Direct install (44 MB). Android will ask you to allow an install from this site — normal for an app distributed outside a store. The store listing is under review.
Asked plainly, answered plainly.
Do I actually get a seat on a ship?
You get a position on a public manifest, permanently. Whether that manifest ever meets a physical vehicle depends on a number printed on this page, which is currently very small. Nothing else is promised, and no other promise would be honest.
Is this a charity?
No. Nothing here is tax-deductible and no cause benefits. One named person keeps the money.
Is this a scam?
A scam requires a lie. Read the page and find one: you are told what you receive, who keeps the money, and exactly how far the total is from the goal. Ambitious is not the same as dishonest.
Why one dollar?
Because at one dollar the answer is never "I can't afford it". It is only ever "I don't want to". That turns a budget into a decision.
What if it never happens?
Then you spent a dollar, and your name sits on a list of people who tried — which is one more list than most people are on.
Can I give without my name showing?
Yes. You choose public or private when you claim your seat. Private seats count exactly the same in the total.
Is this legal?
Unconditional gifts between adults are legal. Nothing is sold, so nothing can be mis-sold. 18+.