Congratulations to Elon Musk for becoming the richest man on Earth for a while.
It happened when Jeff Bezos left the Earth for a while, but you have to take the wins where you can get them.
We saw another step forward in humanity’s abilities when the man behind Amazon took a rude-shaped rocket up to the edge of space.
He’s not the first billionaire to make a trip like that. It was only the other week that Sir Richard Branson made a space run.
The Virgin trip took over 90 minutes whereas Jeff’s Blue Origin craft only took 11 minutes. I suppose that’s the benefit of going Prime.
I am sure Elon Musk will go up soon and in a few years time our own Sir Alan Sugar will go up in a rocket powered by Amstrad computers.
The original moon landing used less computer power than a digital watch but even that will make the Amstrad Emailer look basic.
Can you really say you have been to space if you were only there for a few minutes?
I once caught a connecting train at Peterborough station but if someone talked about Cambridgeshire I wouldn’t chime in with, “I’ve been there.”
At a time when most of us can’t get to have a foreign holiday or afford a staycation it’s typical of a billionaire to go to space.
I suppose there have to be some perks to owning a company that sends items to people during a time when we couldn’t get to the shops. Part of me thinks the whole plan was created so that he could find a way to send purchases to aliens too. One planet isn’t enough.
The cost of a seat on that ship was $28 million. That’s a lot of money for an 11minute trip. For that much money I’d want them to stretch it out a bit, take the scenic route.
I am amazed that we can send rich humans into space and yet I can’t get down the M4 roadworks without wasting a quarter of an hour there.
That’s four minutes longer than it took Jeff to get into space.
We’re heading for a time where the ultra-rich have space travel while the rest of us sit in congestion and pay a congestion charge for the privileged.
The only thing that makes me feel better about that is that we won’t be inside something shaped like a blow up toy you’d see on a hen night.
Good luck to the space travellers but can’t we have some better infrastructure down here please.
It’s literally not rocket science.
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