Here is an update on SpaceShipOne. It seems SpaceShipOne is a serious candidate for the Ansari X Prize purse valued at US$ 10million.
During a portion of SpaceShipOne's boost, the flight director display did not function properly. Pilot Mike Melvill, however, continued the planned trajectory referencing the external horizon through cockpit windows.High Jinx
Melvill used the ship's reaction control system to reorient SpaceShipOne to entry attitude. The vehicle's tail section was flipped up called feather position -- converting SpaceShipOne to a high-drag configuration, permitting stable atmospheric entry.
The ship was de-feathered starting at 55,000 feet. As SpaceShipOne glided toward its runway touchdown, onboard avionics was rebooted. The craft made a smooth and uneventful landing at the Mojave Airport, according to Scaled Composites log data.
Here is an article about green-ness, but not of the political variety. The point being aliens are not likely to be green. Well, who would know for sure? Personally I'd like to categorise that under unknown unknowns.
High Anxiety
Can the Great Wall of China really be seen from outer space? The ESA clearly thought so without checking, and later retracted statements saying they did. It wasn't the wall, it was a river, they said.
"The Great Wall's relative visibility or otherwise from orbit has inspired much recent debate," the agency said in a May 11 press release accompanying a satellite image purporting to show "a winding segment of the 7,240-kilometer-long Great Wall of China situated just northeast of Beijing."It's no big deal if we couldn't really see the Great Wall of China from Orbit, but it's a funny piece of *theory-laden-observation* type of error.
High Fidelity
Seeing that I've just posted up a photo for no good reason, I'd like to point out that the Who have released yet another compilation album, 'Then and Now 1964-2004'. This is the 12th Compilation album they have put out, and their excuse this time is that they have 2 new songs. Think about it. You can buy this at Borders ' for $29.95. That's 15 bucks per new song, if you're a long-standing fan. Rightfully, it's getting a pasting by some of the buyers at Amazon:
Why Get Fooled Again?, April 24, 2004Greatness in decay is decay all the same. Mortality is a sad thing. I'm not moved to spend the bucks this time.
Reviewer: A music fan from san mateo
Another in a long line of 'greatest hits", Then & Now doesn't even come close to being comprehensive. There are too many missing gems (like Relay, Let's See Action, Join Together, Anyway Anyhow Anywhere, etc.) and the inclusion of weak new songs dilute the potency of the songs recorded forty years earlier. And the new songs are the only reason a Who fan would get this collection anyway.
Real Good Looking Boy has the misfortune of directly quoting the famous Elvis Presley song "Can't Help Falling In Love With You". Has Pete Townshend totally run out of ideas? Old Red Wine is a little better but still rather dour and never really gets going despite Roger Daltrey excellent singing.
With only two remaining original Who members one has to ask: At what point do you stop calling these projects The Who? I guess Pete Townshend can get more mileage out of The Who's name brand than his own.
I would have much rather heard an entire recording under the Townshend/Daltrey banner than this waste of plastic.
- Art Neuro
4 comments:
Just Who Do You Think You Are?
I thought that was 'Won't get food again'
I think of myself as a Who fan of petty long standing.
- Art Neuro
I missed the obvious remark, " Who are You?" Mr. Anonymous?
Mr Weasel, actually. Not a deliberate mistake. But a mistake.
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