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Okay, you may not have thought much of Penthouse but Bob Guccione, Sr. was a fan of science also - like many successful people of his day, he was a geek who made money one way and used it to finance things he loved, like science and science fiction. One of those things that contained both was OMNI, a curious hybrid.
While OMNI never made any money, he financed it for 16 years.
Best anecdote; in one of his less wise business decisions, he put up $17 million for construction of a small, portable fusion reactor - and called it Penthouse Energy and Technology Systems. Yes, that acronym is what you think it is - Penthouse PETS all scientists could get behind.
He died of cancer, age 79. R.I.P.
