A Quantum Diaries Survivor

In the day of his 65th birthday, the british astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has announced he intends to fiddle with space travel in 2009, provided that Virgin Galactic, - a company owned by Richard Branson, who is attempting to market space travel - is able to impart his wheelchair enough thrust to overcome Earth’s gravity.

A shorter-term project is a short flight in the absence of gravity, which he plans to take on this year.

Putting Hawking into orbit for free would be a great investment for Branson. I can almost see the ads: “Escape from Black Holes with Virgin Galactic! If Hawking did it, why can’t you ?”