midnyte

I went and saw the shuttle Endeavour launch this evening with my family and my little dogs. My son was impressed, my dogs seemed indifferent until the sound came then they got interested. It is strange, the thing must have been 10 miles in the air before the sound of it rolled over us. It goes very fast, and the night launch was intensely bright, like the sun rise or a nuclear blast. It led us to an interesting conversation on the way home about a nuclear blast and if you would hear it before it killed you. We are so morbid.

The shuttle was cool, one of those things which is so much more impressive to see in real life than any picture or video.