Flyguy

You know, it's cool and everything that spaceship one won the whole thing, but I've been thinking (and I'm going to dissent from the majority here) what are they ultimately trying to accomplish here? Are we talking about building a zero G hotel in space so one corporation (live virgin) can make millions upon millions of dollars from the wealthiest people on earth who want to take a ride? Or are we talking about jumpstarting the advancement of technology to help us get into space and start exploring our solar system and the rest of the galaxy to help better mankind? I really hope it's the latter. All this racing to win 10 million bucks just to put a hotel in lower earth orbit which would have no real purpose other than making money just cheapens the whole idea of their version of space exploration in my opinion. I haven't heard one peep about using this technology to help mankind, just to startup the "space tourism industry."

This just seems like they're doing it for all the wrong reasons. The people on this rock already feed from their constant desire to acquire more wealth and in doing so, anything that can potentially help the people on this planet become second priority, if that.