Random Thoughts on... Space Travel

I hadn't had a chance to read Ciao Pollo for a while so I decided to catch up on the posts. The "Space Tourism" post caught my eye-- Pollo reports that one company is claiming that space tourism will be available within the next few years. I find it hard to believe we have so much money, technology and (in some instances) intelligence, yet we are still struggling with issues like poverty, war, disease and intellectual freedom, among other things. We're obviously doing something wrong...