On Fri, 14 Sep 2018, wrote:

SpaceX says its BFR will fly someone around the Moon; we have
questions:

BFR? Bare Foot Rocket?

"On Thursday evening, without any advance notice, SpaceX tweeted that is had
signed the world’s "first private passenger to fly around the Moon aboard our
BFR launch vehicle." Moreover, the company promised to reveal "who's flying and
why" on Monday, September 17. The announcement will take place at the company's
headquarters in Hawthorne, Calif.

There were only two other clues—tweets from Elon Musk himself. Was the rendering
of the Big Falcon Spaceship in SpaceX's tweet new? Yes, Musk said. And was he
the passenger? In response to this, the founder of SpaceX simply tweeted a
Japanese flag emoji. This would seem to be a strong clue that the passenger is
from Japan. Or maybe Musk was enjoying the epic Seven Samurai movie at that
moment.

By announcing this on Thursday, and waiting four days to provide more details,
the company has set off a big guessing game as to who will fly. Of course that
is an interesting question, but we have many other questions that we'd like to
see answered before that. We've included some of those questions below, along
with some wild and (slightly) informed guesses. Musk even answered one of them
for us."

See:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018...ave-questions/