Getting Off

There may still be time to get off the planet before the LHC destroys it faster than Global Warming alone ever could.

Virgin Galactic unveiled: Richard Branson's space tourism plans move a step closer

White Knight Two, which was unveiled last year, will carry SpaceShipTwo up to 50,000 feet from where it will use its own rocket engines to blast it 65 miles above the Earth's surface.

From there it will fall back to Earth gliding to land like a normal plane.

Sounds like fun.

One passenger that was reportedly invited to take part in the first flights was plane-mad John Travolta but it is said he turned down the opportunity as the training programme would take too much time out of his schedule and cost him in lost earnings.

Seriously? You just had to fucking include a celebrity. Hmm, space flight seems kind of dull. Who wants to hear about the largest privately developed commercial space program in history? First of its kind? No, not nearly exciting enough. Let's include John Travolta!

Sometimes I wish they'd just go back to using tits to sell everything.