I want to cruise in that ride

The interior of Spaceship Two, Virgin Galatic's commercial space flight vehicle. Up you go into the atmosphere to 68 miles (at least acording to the press release) for a few minutes of weightlessness. Then you have about 40 seconds to get back to your seat before reentry.
All this and eco friendly to boot.
“If you’re going to build a spaceship, you’ve got to build a green spaceship,” Branson said, adding that the carbon dioxide output from a single spaceflight is on par with those of a business class seat aboard commercial aircraft.

Virgin's web site is pretty cool as well. You should go there.
via Space.com

2 down a species to go.

Just got back in from my west coast adventure.
This is me with 2 coho salmon, yes that's Seattle in the background. I'm waiting to get all of the pics from the aforementioned adventure till I put up a thorough post.
Needless to say i had a great time and didn't sleep much.

Fighting Jihad with Jihad

Jesus Camp..
Documentary...
Film Fest Winner...
A sign of things to come?
Can't wait to see this one.

To where no man has gone before...Wait , scratch that.

This is the ship that NASA has chosen to replace the space shuttle.
This is the article that gives you the skinny.
I am blown away by the thought that a child being born today might one day be private astronaut. He/she will work for the Tyrell Corporation, of course.