Congrats Atlantis!

[grey_lensman]

On a picture-perfect ascent. (Not that I'd know, it was too cloudy on campus to see it.)

Thank goodness for NASA Select -- we live in the future...

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[beamjockey]

Those of us who get NASA Select live in the future, anyhow.

How long are you going to harbor this sentiment? Pretty soon, the Shuttle will be a thing of the past.

I suppose you think Mach 2 airliners are futuristic, too.

[grey_lensman]

Nope, just expensive. Sub-orbital airliners, however...

I'd say college undergrads building flying robots is futuristic, but that's what I'm doing in my spare (!) time, so I probably shouldn't. I think what trips that meme for me is when I'm doing something or using something I once read about in Analog.

[madtechie2718]

Well, there's always the A2, designed down the road from me - 4000mph and 300 passengers:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/7228341.stm

Bit of a wait before it flies, however...

Congrats on the election, BTW, overwhelmingly lavish victory party at Capricon??