Monthly Archives: December 2005

Space Daily is reporting: SpaceX is now now hoping to make its first orbital flight on December 19, the first day of a three-day window sandwiched between a missile defense test and the Christmas holidays, following a scrubbed launch attempt … Continue reading →

Canon law preventing a priest from giving the police information so that they can rescue a boy being held by a child molester was a central plot point in last night’s Boston Legal. The priest in question refused to answer … Continue reading →

Start saving your frequent flyer miles. Yahoo reports: HONG KONG (AFP) – Virgin Airlines is to offer frequent-flyer “Space Miles” that passengers can put towards flights in space with the company’s soon-to-be-launched Virgin Galactic, boss Richard Branson revealed. The British … Continue reading →

The Jerusalem Post reports that the International Red Cross may have finally found a way to let Israel join: The formal reason for the exclusion of MDA [Mogan David Adam, the Israeli version of the Red Cross] was based on … Continue reading →

UCLA lost today, 66-19, against the team “who must not be named.” It was so bad that the guys who came over to watch the game left near the beginning of the third quarter. Why? They decided it would be … Continue reading →

This is cool, from MSNBC.com: MOJAVE, Calif. – XCOR’s EZ-Rocket flew into the history books Saturday. The craft made a record-setting point-to-point flight, departing here from the Mojave California Spaceport, gliding to a touchdown at a neighboring airport in California … Continue reading →

I do not much care for the US Postal Service. I collect postage stamps, and so I’m fond of those, but so far as the service is concerned, I have an intense dislike for it. My local service at my … Continue reading →