Monthly Archives: November 2007

Saturday night’s first operational launch of the Delta IV Heavy was in the dark. Here’s the first ever launch of the vehicle, but during daylight. Send to Kindle

The best time to write a story is yesterday. The next best time is today. R. A. Lafferty, It’s Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs Send to Kindle

United Launch Alliance successfully launched the first operational Delta IV Heavy expendable launch vehicle for the U.S. Air Force on Saturday, November 10, at 8;50 PM EST from Space Launch Complex-37. It was carrying the service’s Defense Support Program-23 satellite.The … Continue reading →

The Japanese satellite Kaguya is now in orbit around the moon. It recently sent back the first High Definition TV views of the lunar surface from about 100 kilometers up. The YouTube video version is obviously not high definition quality, … Continue reading →

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. Attributed to David Brin, author of The Uplift War, which won the 1988 Hugo … Continue reading →

I repeat Sturgeon’s Revelation, which was wrung out of me after twenty years of wearying defense of science fiction against attacks of people who used the worst examples of the field for ammunition, and whose conclusion was that ninety percent … Continue reading →

Memories of SpaceShipOne: SpaceShipTwo is coming… Send to Kindle

If you’re bothered by bad language don’t watch this video, We Are All Going to Hell:On the other hand, it’s funny. I don’t know anything about the Bastard Fairies, but their songs made me laugh. If you enjoyed We Are … Continue reading →

Eleven years a drunkard, or, The life of Thomas Doner: Having lost both arms through intemperance, he wrote his book with his teeth as a warning to others, by Thomas Doner. Forty-two pages long, it was published in 1880. Amazon … Continue reading →

Archeology.org has an interesting (and amusing) article entitled Zombie Attack at Hierakonpolis, by Renée Friedman: On the other hand, in support of the earlier date, some have claimed that the famous Palette of Narmer (ca. 3000 B.C.), also from Hierakonpolis, … Continue reading →