Break me off a piece of that, "Golden Ticket !"

I read this on Yahoo News today and couldn't believe it! Forget about, "The Chocolate Factory," this ticket is going to the moon!

PARIS (Reuters) - A French air hostess will become one of Europe's pioneer space tourists after picking a chocolate wrapper out of the rubbish and finding a winning number in a competition to fly to the upper reaches of the earth's atmosphere.


Mathilde Epron, 32, said she had bought a Kit Kat chocolate bar at her local supermarket but initially threw the wrapper in the bin, telling herself that "it's only others who win."

Two hours later, thinking back to the competition, she decided to try her luck and fished the wrapper out of the bin, only to find a code marked inside.

"For someone who works in air travel it's really a dream come true," she told France Info radio.

A spokeswoman for Nestle in France confirmed that Epron had won the prize to take a flight on a four-seater, fighter-sized aircraft built by Rocketplane, a company that builds aircraft intended to provide cheap flights into space.

She will receive four days of astronaut training in Oklahoma City in the United States before boarding the Rocketplane XP aircraft which will reach an altitude of 100 km (60 miles) and allow a five-minute experience of weightlessness.

(Reporting by Joseph Tandy; Editing by James Mackenzie)

This is incredible, the best thing I have ever gotten from a candy bar wrapper, is a candy bar. As frequent as this type of travel is becoming I sometimes wonder... is space going to be the new Disney World?

Solar Powered Radio's for the poverty stricken country of Africa

Check out the video and the link below to learn more! Check out this video: Freeplay Radio



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Randomly today, I stumbled across this video of Tom Hanks standing in front of these crazy looking radios. I think this is a really interesting concept, free information from a device that is environmentally friendly. I looked into this and the company Freeplay really thinks outside of the box. It's genius! What better gift then a solar powered radio for people who live in poverty? These are people who don't have access to vital and educational information, and who don't have the money to buy batteries.

Four Facts from Freeplay...



Fact 1: Nearly 2 billion people in the world, approximately 35% of the global population, still do not have electricity. Sub-Saharan Africa, with a population of about 350 million people, has the lowest levels of electrification in the world, where 9 out of 10 people do not have electricity.

Fact 2: Energy and poverty are linked. The areas in the world with the high levels of poverty also have the lowest levels of modern energy consumption. For example, per capita consumption of modern energy in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than half of the population lives below the poverty line, is a staggering 20 times lower than the global average.

Fact 3: Batteries are one solution, but batteries are costly. People in least developed countries on average spend 6% of their income on batteries ($24/year) – if people in developed countries were to spend the same that would amount to $2331/year!

Fact 4: To break the poverty cycle, people must have unlimited and inexpensive access to information, access to education, access to light wherever and whenever they need it.



For more Freeplay info...www.freeplayenergy.com







An article from Time Magazine about these Forward Thinkers...
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1663317_1663322_1669935,00.html

This is dead on...

I don't normally open forwards but my Me-maw sent me this one and it intrigued me. You should try it!