h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Hi Dmitri
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What a story, a man before his time. I am reminded of Giordano Bruno and his 'heretical' beliefs.

Please read through and let me know if I can send it back to the Eds for final proof read. I'll get this on the FP asap.

GB

Hi, there, GB! Thanks, it looks fine. Fire away!

Yep, it reminded me of that, too - everybody who's had an uphill battle to convince people that they don't know what they think they know.

on its way!

Speaking of which, did you enjoy the SpaceX/Dragon launch/docking/entry into the ISS? We were hooked, all weekend.

Poor Doug though, banged his head, started bleeding all over the space station, I'm guessing that's a bad thing in zero g.

I didn't hear that part!

Yeah, we watched the launch and the docking. I made screenshots for Gheorgheniplexes.

I cannot get over how they can land those boosters and reuse them. I am in awe of this, because that's how rockets landed in old science fiction films when I was a small child. There's something so viscerally retro about it all.

Oh! We were watching on NASA TV - we saw the Dragon crew enter the ISS (that was when Doug banged his head). Our news channels have been replaying the exact clip but not mentioning the injurystrange. We were able to take screenshots on our phones, Andy got a great one of the ISS from the approaching Dragon - I missed that but I have all the photos if you want them?

You know, we were just discussing that - the reusing of the boosters and how they land on the floating platform. Strange thing was, as we were waiting for it to land, the screen blanked out, just a few seconds, then when it came back, there was the booster! I said they probably showed a spare one because the other was off-course and landed in the drink

That's exactly what we thought, the silver rocket landing feet first on some exotic planet with beautiful aliens from the old sci-fi films.

Exactly! Thanks, I have a lot of screenshots. Although if you have one of the ISS, I'd appreciate it, because I missed that one, too - I went to push the button, and they changed the picture.

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