Reactuate

Via Boing Boing: Disney is doing a new space based ride called Mission Space. The pictures look cool.

Written while listening to “Oh Marie”album Sheryl Crow
by Sheryl Crow

Via Slashdot: A picture of the Earth from Mars. Includes Jupiter and one of its moons.

Written while listening to “Stop”
album Blurring The Edges
by Meredith Brooks

I was wandering around SourceForge, looking at what OSX code was available, and found Celetia a solar system simulation.

Still figuring out the controls, but you can “fly” around the solar system. Its amazing how fast you can be going and nothing is moving. I flew from Io to Earth at faster than light and could [...]

I got my first chance to moderate on slashdot today. I blew all five moderator points on this thread about a new private spacecraft competing for the X prize.

While looking through some of the lower rated posts I found a link to Encyclopedia Astronautica . Looks cool. I haven’t had a chance to really look [...]

I haven’t said anything about the Columbia tragedy because I haven’t thought of words worthy of the occasion. I got an email today from the Science Fiction Writers of America and at the top was a poem from one of my favorite authors.

These are words worthy.

“I pray for one last landing
On the globe that gave [...]

Space.com has a article listing the top ten space mysteries

I like this line from the origin of the solar system, “We’re left with an old theory that doesn’t work and a new one that is, in the words of its creator, a wild idea.”.

Space.com is cool and I should spend more time there.

My sons and I went to the new Star Trek movie this weekend. It was pretty good, definitely not as bad as SlashDot made it sound.

There’s a scene where a crew man is sucked out of the ship and my son wanted to know why he didn’t explode. I tried to explain, but really I [...]

I woke up Saturday morning thinking about what technology would be needed if you had a cheap means of getting into orbit. Right now the big problem is getting there, not living there. But if you had something like anti-gravity you could do it easily. The first thing I thought of was space suits. So [...]