I was listening to an NPR:TED Radio Hour podcast recently entitled "Getting There" and the founder of the Virgin brand Richard Branson was chatting it up about space travel for the public and how his team of engineers actually planned out a future where space travel will be just like commercial airlines today.  Mr. Branson said right now a person can fly from New York to Tokyo in just 40 minutes using near earth orbit!  That's pretty amazing and pretty ambitious considering all of the cut backs on most space programs these days.  

This really got my brain fired up thinking how maybe not now but maybe in our near future space travel will be the norm.  I don't think there is much difference between having a million dollars and a billion dollars since money only goes so far but it's nice to see someone who IS a billionaire and is for better or worse using his advantage to pursue an epic goal.  Much of the same can be said for Elon Musk(Paypal, Space X, Tesla) in the same way.

So, give the podcast I mentioned a listen and tell me what you think...cya