Lord British in space

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Fellow Austinite and gamer Richard Garriot hurtled his meager body into the void to visit the space station today.  However unless he figures out how to roll a d20 in space, I'm not jealous 

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maybe you thought I was making this up?  It's true-

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jkTcZ4EMnsrwpreYifsi3MC2kyPA

millionaires paying to be private astronauts may not be as exciting as waxing your chain  but its part of the first steps of space colonization which I think is pretty fascinating.