I was scrolling past the Branson headlines yesterday to find out about banana slicers. what did Branson do? He 'soared more than 50 miles above the New Mexico desert.' He was joined by SPCE.N employees - who unstrapped themselves and floated in and out of cabins with bezerkly goofy grins.
"We’re here to make space more accessible to all," an exuberant Branson, 70, said shortly after embracing his grandchildren following the flight. "Welcome to the dawn of a new space age."
The race was on between Branson and Jeff Bezos, according to the Globe and Mail on the weekend. There are lots of headlines on 'the feud' getting petty. This is a highly publicized rivalry with fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos, the Amazon (AMZN.O) online retail mogul who had hoped to fly into space first aboard his own space company's rocket. There are tweeted comparisons of Bezos' "better" rocket vs Branson's.
There was a congratulations on Instagram. Bezos said on Instagram. "Can’t wait to join the club!"
The flight was moved up to occur before the Bezos flight scheduled for July 20th. A big party was held afterwards with space industry executives, future customers and other well-wishers Joining the reception was another billionaire space industry pioneer, Elon Musk, who is also founder of electric carmaker Tesla Inc
Branson says 600 wealthy would-be citizen astronauts have also booked reservations, priced at about $250,000 per ticket for the exhilaration of supersonic flight, weightlessness and the spectacle of spaceflight. Branson has said he aims ultimately to lower the price to about $40,000 per seat as the company ramps up service, achieving greater economies of scale. Colglazier said he envisions eventually building a large enough fleet to accommodate roughly 400 flights annually at the spaceport.
I wonder what the reviews will look like. I am still thinking about the banana slicer.
At the bottom of one of the articles is a "Litter-Robot" ad for automated cat litter collection. I don't know if this is a comedic video or an ad. The cost is $660. It is at litter-robot.com and has 8,247 reviews. Here we are at reviews again. I scrolled through a few - my estimate is that out of this enormous number of reviews under 10% have correct grammar, spelling or even make sense. If I pick out the silliest, this could be a rival to the banana slicer.
Our picture today - ripe tomatoes. This is a tomato year at Lilycrest Gardens. There are around 40 - 60 plants in the field. Each is staked and pruned perfectly. This picture comes from Cole's Garden Centre where tomato plants this year showed up with a full crop.
