Stephen Hawking is going .. well not to orbit but he’s going to experience zero-g.

What a marvelous experience for a guy bound by gravity and circumstance to a chair. He may get to orbit yet – Sir Richard Branson is going to give him a seat on VirginGalactic.

I’m humbled that other people have framed this in a far more entertaining manner than I can manage – I won’t even try.

Space is to humans what Beethoven is to dogs. I don’t think we have the slightest idea what we don’t yet understand.

Just thought of something: What holds the paraplegic in their chairs? What keeps them from shooting around the room, stopping their progress with a finger, floating from desk to desk?

Gravity.

And gravity isn’t a big issue . . . where?

Cross posted to Space For Commerce.