While most people are wondering whether their retirement is secure, Sergey Brin has a much more important question on his mind: how cool is it gonna be when I'm flying up in space and shit? That's why the Google wunderkind hopped a flight to Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrone over the weekend, where he dapped a couple of terrorist fist jabs with Richard Garriott, just before gazillionaire computer game entrepreneur hopped a flight to the Soyuz spaceship. According to Reuters, Brin has dropped a $5 million down payment with Space Adventures, the space tourism company, to get in line to zip on out to space. But he hasn't decided whether he'll go or not. We know just how he feels. Just the other day, we asked ourselves: Do pay the rent this month? Or do we blast ourselves off into space and do a few zero-gravity cartwheels?

Valleywag has an even nastier take on Sergey's vacation. "If you've ever wondered why Google's founders would bring on ‘adult supervision' in the form of CEO Eric Schmidt, here's the photo proof," writes Owen Thomas. "Larry and Sergey are moving on to the Final Frontier, while Squirrel Boy gets to stay behind and talk up Google's brand savvy to a roomful of advertisers."