This guy is smarter and richer than you.
Lord of video games, Richard Garriott, rocketed off this weekend on a trip to outer space. (Perhaps scouting locations for the next Ultima game?)
The millionaire king of nerds paid a hefty sum to be the 6th space tourist in history, blasting off from Kazahkstan on Sunday to spend two weeks participating in research before his return on October 24th. Garriott follows in the footsteps of his father, Owen, an astronaut who worked on the US owned Skylab in the early 1970's. Pretty cool, actually.
Space travel was always a dream of the young Garriott, who spent most of his childhood and teenage years programming video games in his bedroom. He created the highly successful Ultima series in 1980, when he was only 19 years old.
According to Yahoo news reports, Garriott's shuttle carries "the digitized DNA sequences of some of the world's greatest thinkers and musicians — as well as athletes, video game players and others."
Video game players?
See mom, it's not a waste of time!
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