Friday, Oct. 8th
Well it is officially Friday. I have just awakened from my slumber; I really slept too long again. Although it is Friday and the start of the weekend it might as well be the middle of the week since I have no life. I was going to mow the grass but just as I started outside and I could hear the rain a falling. Now it sounds like it has stopped, or course I have geared up to do inside work now. Anyways, I know I haven’t updated in a couple of days, work was actually busy and when I wasn’t busy I was trying to pick up the slack from when Ben left. Since I did work the last two days there wasn’t much going on in my life besides sleep and work. I am on a shift now that is slightly more productive than the one that just left me, but there are the personal aggravation issues with some of the guys I work with. I am not going to get into all of that since we seem to be getting along fine recently. In other news, you have all heard the phrase “Space the finally frontier…” if you haven’t if is from StarTrek. Anyways, civilians have officially conquered this frontier. The X-Prize was won the other day by StarShipOne. Some of you, well maybe most of you have no idea what I am talking about do you? The X-Prize was a challenge established world wide to see what privately funded company could send a pilot into to space return safely to earth and then re-launch the same vehicle within a week. This vehicle had to carry the pilot and have room to carry two additional people (sandbags were used to simulate the weight of two people in testing). You may ask what is the significance of this, well this could very well usher in the space tourism industry. Russia did a little bit of this to fund their space program a year back, but this would be private entities like Carnival cruise lines for space (they wouldn’t be that big, at least not yet). Now these guys did not go as high as the space shuttle they did not enter earth’s orbit but they did experience weightlessness. They built a glider basically with a rocket engine in the back of it. They used the same basic principally as the first jets used back in the 40’s. The carried SpaceShipOne underneath another plane and then launched it from some 40k feet. That is probably enough of all this, you guys are I’m sure struggling to stay awake, so I will close. Just thought I would give you the heads up on things to come.
- Larry
- Larry
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