Life's luxuries may make sense for most people on your Christmas list, but there's always one person who seems impossible to please. That's why we've tossed the budget in search of the most rarefied experiences and exotic goods for the billionaire in your life. Consider these items your best chance at finding the upper hand in any gift exchange. A utopian vision of Mars Elon Musk can't have all the Martian fun. Your billionaire can take a more contemplative approach with a globe that imagines what life is like out there: Mars efter Lowell's Glober 1894-1914. The hand-inked manuscript orb was made by Emmy Ingeborg Brun, a Danish socialist and astronomer, in 1909 from mistranslated drawings that interpreted "canali" (natural channels) as man-made canals. In those lines, Brun saw evidence of a co-operative society and promoted Mars as a potential site for a socialist Utopia. She sent copies of the globe to museums and academic institutions around the world; only eight have endured. Cos...
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