Billionaires Went to Space, Unfortunately Came Back
For a few brief moments this year, the Earth had one less billionaire. While it didn’t yield a lasting Communist utopia, the planet was at least metaphorically and literally lighter. Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos engaged in a space tourism pissing match, with the former becoming the first billionaire to visit space this summer by a few days (or get close to it anyways, who can say really). The goal, our new space barons say, is to put humanity on track to become an interplanetary species. Or in Bezos’ case, to ship all polluting industry into space to save the Earth so future generations can come to visit it like we do today with Yellowstone. But based on the number of high-profile people being sent to space willy nilly now, it also seems like they’re maybe just trying to make space tourism A Thing. Which sure, cool. Maybe we could also try to fix a few other things before going that route, though.
