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The (Lack of) Air Up There
In my haste yesterday to point you in the direction of the nut across the pond (make sure your sound is turned on), I forgot to mention the must cooler thing that happened: an even crazier guy flew a rocket plane into space.
Well, kind of into space. Officially it counted since he was past the agreed-upon height that all nations agreed was no longer their airspace, and M&M's were reportedly floating around like Homer's bag of Ruffles on the Simpsons, but at 62.5 miles up he wasn't even *close* to being able to knock my TV satellite out of orbit (which I guess is a good thing).
It is really cool though, and it brings to mind all those crazy contraptions that people built in the late 19th century in an effort to fly (my favorite being the one in the bottom left of this poorly-designed page). I'm hoping we see a renaissance in the form of goofy doomed-to-fail experiments in space flight with people strapping jet engines to their cars and driving off cliffs. What an age we live in.
Comments
all that money and effort...and "Space Ship One" is the best name Burt Rutan can come up with for his craft?
He needs to hire me as creative consultant.
Bling bling mofo.
Posted by: Paco at June 23, 2004 7:50 PM
Haha, what are your suggestions for the craft's name?
Posted by: Chris Hill Festival at June 23, 2004 7:59 PM
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