I've been thinking about the Columbia disaster recently and I really think its such a bad deal that we underfund NASA by so much. There is so much opportunity out there and so many people willing to fork over big $$$ that I seriously think we should change our focus to space tourism in order to get the space industry off the ground. Once we're rolling in the money, there will be plenty of resources to do whatever scientific stuff needs doing.

In the meantime, you could sell space tourism to the American people as a tax on the rich. Seriously. Only the rich could afford going up there (for now) and it would just be easy money for Uncle Sam to collect...straight from rich people's pockets. You might even be able to fund social security.

On another note, and speaking of space tech, check this story. Some Japanese scientist developed a suit which takes a picture of what is behind you and displays that picture on the front of the suit. Effectively, this makes you invisible since when a person looks at you, all they see is what is behind you. I've always wondered why this wasn't possible.

By Gary at 06:00 PM in Sci/Tech | Comments (0)