April Fools or not this is pretty cool

People who are lucky enough to have $200,000 indiscriminately lying around are obviously the scorn of many a resident of this here planet. Now those who have that amount of cold hard cash sitting looking back at them may just be about to make some of the Classic Calvin segments look tame.

Entrepreneur, and one time “owner” of Bodog, Richard Branson, has decided to take Virgin Atlantic to a new level as he looks to people that want to take advantage of commercial space travel.

The venture, entitled Virgin Galactic, will fly anyone willing to lay out $200k into space so that they can float around without gravity aimlessly for five minutes before returning to Earth.

Virgin’s release does come the day before April Fools so it could be the case that this a load of tosh. Hats off the Branson and his team if that’s the case. Even the BBC took it hook line and sinker.

Commercial flights to space will hopefully lead to a whole lot more than just five minutes of floating. This is probably when we’re supposed to state by 2050 holidays will be entirely taken on the moon and a landing on Mars will in fact discover that it was indeed a huge Mars bar factory all along.

That will probably all be saved for April Fools day another year though. It also links quite handily back to when Calvin announced he was going to open up a casino in space. Does this mean that our good friend Mr Branson is sat reading the tablog every day?

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