Who didn't want to be an astronaut as a kid. You go off to university and study STEM. You grimly do your engineering mathematics and physics.

And then you read the news and you see Guy Laliberté is flying to the ISS. And you go read his bio and he started off walking on stilts and fire-eating. WTF! You can get rich in circuses? It turns out you can even do it in countries suffering from dutch disease.

When Sarah Brightman was in the queue it was almost too much. Fortunately she had second thoughts.

Anything that stops these creatives getting rich and famous and competing with the rest of us for seats on the Soyuz sounds good to me.

Ofcourse we will see a commensurate increase in funding for the stem subjects and CSIRO and a space programme. Oh, sorry, this is the government that denies climate change, thinks wind farms make people sick and that the future of the Internet in Australia is buying copper from Telstra. I think I am with the creatives on this one.

Education is a good thing as long as it is a quality education on par with the best in the world and it does not matter the subject.