Posted on 01/10/2014 6:47:17 PM PST by rey
If all goes according to plan, Hollywood icon Leonardo DiCaprio will blast into space aboard the maiden voyage of Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic spaceship sometime this year, opening up a new era of civilian space travel. This development might only be remarkable as the fulfillment of a dream long predicted by futurists and technophiles, were it not for the fact that Messrs. Branson and DiCaprio are prominent environmentalist celebrities who have warned of a coming ecological catastrophe if we fail to address our carbon problem.
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Oh that is SO saved for later use ;)
Too bad he didn’t take his character’s note re The Aviator: “You don’t worry about money because you’ve always had it.”
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