Toronto teens send Lego minifig into space

(Space.  I’m in space.)

Someone on my blogroll — I think it was Mark Sisson; oh yeah, there we go — recently claimed that “Kids don’t seem to dream about becoming astronauts”.  At the time I thought “Well, companies like Virgin Galactic are actively advertising for astronauts, and Copenhagen Suborbitals are working on open-source space travel, so meh upon thee.”

And now we find that a couple of Lego Maniacs (remember those commercials?) have sent a Lego minifig into space.

(Whoa, space.)

So yeah: Fuck you, haters.  We don’t need the government to steal billions from citizens at the point of a bayonet to make our space-travel dreams come true.