Joyce stared at the screen for several more moments. He looked down as he said, “I have lied to investors in my other companies. I have falsified tax returns and SEC filings. I have embezzled. I have begged, borrowed, and essentially stolen the money required to make this expedition happen. An expedition that officially does not exist because no one was willing to fund something this risky. No one had faith that it could work—and they still don’t. Investors gave me money to do more of the same bullshit that billions of dollars are wasted on every day here on Earth. And I took their money, and
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