Eccentric Billionaire Builds Real-Live Space Plane

If I had a nickel for every time some eccentric billionaire claimed he could build an interplanetary flying machine so he and his friends could travel through space, I'd be an eccentric billionaire claiming I can build an interplanetary flying machine so my friends and I can travel through space. But world's richest Virgin (CEO) Richard Branson has made good on his insane schemes and whipped up White Knight Two, a four-engine jet that will carry SpaceShipTwo, a passenger spacecraft, to about 50,000 feet before it launches to 62 miles above the Earth, carrying two pilots and six eccentric billionaires. In addition to offering outrageously expensive cheap thrills to the world's sickeningly wealthy, the project marks a major milestone in the race to commercialize space travel, which, judging by the depressingly self-destructive plans for NASA's future, seems like the best way to go. In addition to carrying space tourists, White Knight Two can also haul satellites into orbit, providing Branson with a perfect vehicle for his fleet of robotic sun blockers to beat our planet into dark submission and turn it into his own personal harem. More details here.