The next space tourist could be a member of a boyband, financed by a reality tv production deal.
Fantastic.
I know the scientific merit of manned space exploration is debatable, but what about using reality TV to power science forward?
Big Brother 3 has just started here in the UK. People I regard as rational and intelligent individuals are in it’s thrall, anxious to get cable installed specifically to be able to watch the live, uninterrupted feeds of people not doing much of anything all day, everyday.
So, why not live uniterrrupted sponsored coverage of science? 24hr, massively mesmerising feeds of centrifuges spinning, cyclotrons humming, tokamaks and toruses ticking over. It would be great!
Pass the pringles someone, I think i just saw a neutrino flash…
Petafloptimism 
matt’s just jealous cos he didn’t get picked to be in BB3 *or* a boy band