WIRED UK: Column 07

While I seem to have suffered from somewhat overmedicated subeditors more than usual, here it is, my most recent WIRED UK column, from the issue that came out in print today:

Listen, I know there's a recession on and that by Christmas we're all going to be living in Cormac McCarthy's The Road and viewing infants as a renewable, organically-farmed food source, but I really need to borrow 8,000 Yankee dollars. Just hear me out.

I want to launch a TubeSat…