Archive for January, 2008

Virgin Galactic

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Take a look at this teaser video of Spaceship Two, presumably put together by or on behalf of Virgin Galactic. That looks like incredible fun and maybe closest that I might get to orbit in my lifetime, unless we accelerate our manned spaceflight projects. Not sure why you need those whacky helmets though.
Cynic that I […]

New Mountaineering blog

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Hello. As mentioned earlier this month, I have a new mountaineering blog. Check it out.

New Hobbies this year

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Happy 2008 everyone!
So in true Aries style, my hobbies have expanded this year.
After putting my Masters in Astronomy on hold for a while, I thought I’d get back into more observational Astronomy. It’s been a long time since I was an active observer. After acquiring a nice pair of 10 x 50 Nikon binoculars over […]