> When he [Michael Faraday] demonstrated his apparatus [the dynamo] to His Majesty's Government, the prime minister, Sir Robert Peel, asked, "Of what use is it?" To which Faraday replied: "I don't know, but I'll wager that some day you'll tax it."

- Michael Faraday

Source:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/A_Race_on_the_Edge_of_Time

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamo

We will tax space in good time my fellow skeptics.

All in good time.