The linked blog doesn't get around to mentioning how, exactly, Virgin Galactic and/or EADS Astrium plan on using their spacecraft to "escape"
anything. Virgin Galactic's
White Knight 2 and EADS Astrium's
still-officially-unnamed
space plane are both sub-orbital; neither will spend more than
a few minutes in space before re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
There have only been
477 humans who have traveled into space since Gagarin; the
idea that these "elites" (whoever they are) are suddenly and miraculously going to escape Earth in massive numbers sometime in the next 4 years is
ridiculous.
NOTE: Edited because, apparently, I couldn't be bothered to close my HTML tags...
[edit on 20-5-2008 by PhloydPhan]