Burt Rutan’s SpaceShipTwo has completed its first “feathered flight.”   Soon this lovely ship will be operating from the New Mexico Spaceport, just a couple hundred miles south of here.

Important UPDATE below: According to a new book by Richard Sugg, the British royal family regularly dined on human flesh.  As well as bones, skin, and internal organs. A new book on medicinal cannibalism has revealed that possibly as recently as the end of the 18th century British royalty swallowed parts of the human body. […]

The recent excitement over the failed Rapture has brought to mind the fact that I have often thought that, if only I were a sociopath, I’d be really, really rich now.  I’d start a religion, like L. Ron, and make a lot of money, and not pay taxes. It would be a damn good religion, […]

Exciting moments at the Cape, condensed. We arrived predawn.  Yes, that is an alligator cruising along in the lower left. The sun arrives. Main engine start.  (Five seconds before liftoff) A tower of brilliant flame, brighter than any camera can record. The orbiter vanished into low cloud just as the sound reaches us across the […]