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The Quark Space Travel site name was derived from my short story, Lost in Googleland, in which a random Google® search comes across an obscure website: quarkspacetravel.com.

An excerpt from the beginning of the story:

Surfing the web when bored and having nothing else to do is, depending on your viewpoint, a growing world problem or a pastime, the latter in the case of nerds like me. It’s extremely addictive. I haven’t had a date in more than six months, and I really like the dark cave-like room where my computer is set up. No worries about skin cancer, right?

I once Googled for God. Out of curiosity I wanted to see what would come up. The word "God" gave some 566,000,000 results after only 0.05 seconds. Wow! God is really popular and fast. However, no matter which entry I clicked on, or even assisted by my copy of the O'Reilly® Google Pocket Guide, I never found his home page. Could God be computer illiterate? Has God not paid the fee to his ISP? Has God’s server crashed? However, I did find that the domain "iamgod.com" was for sale. I thought about buying it, but then people might ask me to perform miracles. Miracles? I have a hard enough time just getting out of bed. The water-to-wine thing was really cool, but that’s not my bag. I’m a dark beer guy.

Recently, in another moment of boredom, I typed "space travel" to see what would come up. There were some 158,000,000 “hits,” almost as many as for God. Could I narrow this down? Were there any space travel agencies? I typed "space travel agency." Yes, a bunch of them; mainly run by Russians. Seemed like millionaires with excess cash want to go into space.

Hmmm, here was one that did not look like Russians were involved:

http://www.quarkspacetravel.com.

Let’s see what’s there!

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