Wheel of cheese shot into space!

[dbminter]

Apparently, someone with more money than sense felt it necessary to shoot a wheel of cheese into space and then retrieve the contents.

 

 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20101209/sc_space/wheelofcheeselaunchedintospaceonprivatespacecraft

 

 

This news, combined with earlier news about an iPhone made with an ancient meteorite and T-Rex tooth, makes me give pause, especially at this time of year. People are starving in some parts of the world. That cheese could have served a far more humanitarian purpose than as some cosmic joke. I'm all for doing things weird, but, there is a limit, even for me.