Just how cool is THIS?

Stephen Hawking, a paragon of geeky coolness, and I hear he’s pretty smart to boot, just went for a ride on the Vomit Comet.

Add a parabolic flight to my wish list.  Go Zero G has Professor Hawking’s flight covered on the front page.

Here’s a link to The Age’s coverage where I discovered it first thing this morning.

I really admire Professor Hawking.  He turned hard concepts simple and popularized common sense ideas for the long term existance of humanity at large.  I stand amoung the legions who would be honoured to comingle our barf in sub-orbit someday.