Act now to reserve your seat on the Virgin Galactic spacecraft. Flights are scheduled to start in about a year for the bargain price of 100,000 pounds...which is something like $162 grand American <or $1350 a minute, if you'd like to do some comparison shopping>. My favorite portion of the article I read was the comment section where "David" from "Alpha Centauri" wrote:

When will the price come down? Will welfare clients be discriminated against because of the cost. If you want to keep inner city high schools from dropping out, would free flights for them help lower the drop put rate?

That comment reminded me of an article I saw earlier today, linked off of Drudge, where I was informed that high school students in Georgia are going to be paid $8/hr to study in an afterschool test program, determining whether students do better with monetary incentives. The comment section on this article was also humorous, but I won't bother quoting any of it.