The late, great Peter Finch as Howard Beale in “Network.”
If you’re like me, you’re sick and tired of these !#$~! snakes on this !#$! air….
Oops. Wrong movie.
You are probably fed up with the high cost of space travel. I mean, it’s like two million dollars a day. Probably more now. Who can afford that? Other than billionaires. And they can afford anything.
Even if you could go, you’d end up get crammed elbow-to-elbow into a little seat in a tiny Soyuz capsule for two days, peeing into a tube, eating reconstituted food, and hoping the video of your bout with space sickness doesn’t end up as Number 1 on YouTube. It’s a lot of put up with for the vacation of a lifetime.
Well, if you’re mad as hell about not being able to afford these minor inconveniences, you don’t have to take it any more. Instead, you can sign the MarsDrive Petition for Inexpensive Space Access, which is pretty much what it sounds like. The group is hoping to get more than a million signatures and “submit it to government bodies like U.S Congress, the E.U and various other nations with space aspirations. We will also present it to large private sector companies and investment organizations at this point.”
Frankly, I’m not sure how useful petitions like these are, but it will probably do some good and doesn’t take much time to sign. And you can channel your inner Howard Beale. Or Samuel L. Jackson. Either way, it would probably be quite cathartic.
