SPCE Is Trending Again After Someone Discovered Buying the Ticket Is Cheaper Than the In-Flight Snack Box
As a meme historian, I have to explain the cosmic irony here: SPCE (Virgin Galactic’s ticker) is trending not because Richard Branson finally made it to space, but because Wall Street bets realized that booking a $450,000 seat is somehow the cheaper option compared to paying $83 for a standard airplane pretzel-and-coke combo. The joke? Investing in space tourism is less of a financial black hole than the airline industry’s “hidden fees.” Memes are now comparing SPCE stock charts to the trajectory of a paper airplane tossed from the ISS—thrilling launch, catastrophic descent. The funny side? Traders are treating SPCE like a lottery ticket, but at least with a real rocket, you get a free drink before you explode.