It is amazing that NASA is able to produce superior missions at a high success rate. This one is no exception. Way to go NASA!!!

This is a neat section on the Discovery Channel website dedicated to high-speed video segments on such topics as water balloon bursting, eggs being dropped into fan blades and dogs drinking water.

What is really cool about this particular section is that you can control the frame advance or retard with your mouse or keyboard. Lots of fun!

This is incredibly scary.

NASA has another winner!

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Spaceship One took the coveted $10 million dollar X-Prize today with its required second flight within a week of the first.
This is a fantastic beginning to making spaceflight a common occurence for the dozens of countries and millions of people around the world that long for advances in space technology. Governments are saddled with debt and other worldly obligations and space exploration and exploitation have languished for 35 years for the most part. The International Space Station seems to be marooned in orbit because the antiquated US Shuttle fleet is grounded.
I’m pleased to see that private industry has stepped up to the plate to advance mankind’s space presence. Let’s hope they continue. Off to the moon, again!

I would imagine that a good number of fundamentalist Christians would see this technology as the infamous ‘mark of the beast’.
Not sure if I agree though. Interesting technology at any rate. Heck they use it on animals.