Thursday, January 24, 2008
Space Truckin!
It looks like Virgin Galactic might finally be getting closer to their goal of private passenger space flight. More power to them! Yes, seats to suborbit are still expensive as heck at $200K, but if I were to suddenly be burdened with more cash than I knew what to do with, this would be high on the list of things I'd sign up for.
As for safety issues, it's probably safer than my daily commute - one individual from the shallow end of the gene pool almost caused a wreck this morning by speeding his way into the normal slowdown on 880 south past Auto Mall Parkway, and had to weave around several cars and onto the median to avoid an accident. And then he and his buddy were laughing about it, like, "Wow, wasn't that fun?" I really have to wonder whether they were stoned or just stupid. The shallow end of the gene pool could use a bit of chlorine, if you ask me.
As for safety issues, it's probably safer than my daily commute - one individual from the shallow end of the gene pool almost caused a wreck this morning by speeding his way into the normal slowdown on 880 south past Auto Mall Parkway, and had to weave around several cars and onto the median to avoid an accident. And then he and his buddy were laughing about it, like, "Wow, wasn't that fun?" I really have to wonder whether they were stoned or just stupid. The shallow end of the gene pool could use a bit of chlorine, if you ask me.
Labels: safety, space travel, stupidity, traffic, Virgin Galactic
# posted by Loren Davidson @ 11:15 AM 
