Tom Cruise Has His on Pre-Order

"British billionaire Richard Branson, left, and the aerospace designer Burt Rutan unveil a model of SpaceShipTwo, the vehicle they hope will be able to take passengers on suborbital joy-rides, just for the fun of it, with test flights beginning as soon as this year, during a news conference in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2008. At top is a model of White Knight Two, the mothership for Space Ship Two, which is now under construction at a hangar in the Mojave Desert." (Associated Press)

This is maybe the most awesome thing I've EVER read. This is what the motherfucking 21st century should be about people. Seriously, if the 20th century brought us automobiles, and airplanes, and computers and shit, then the 21st century should be all about space travel, robots, clones, beam-me-up-scottie shit, and a whole bunch more. Seriously, if we went from horse-and-buggy shit in the beginning over the 20th century to space-travel and airplanes and shit at the end of it- think where we can go from here.