X Prize Cup!

[mckitterick]

OMG *ded* of the nerdity!

Why is X-Prize Cup happening so far away? Aaaah! I want to go!

Do y'all remember the morning when these guys won the original X Prize? I got up early to watch that day after barely restraining myself from making a mad two-day drive down to see it in person. It's something that I'll always wish I'd done. Kind of like watching a Space Shuttle launch: I haven't done that yet, and soon we'll no longer be able to watch 'em take off. I bet lots of people out there wish they'd watched one of the now-extinct Saturn monsters launch their payloads of little pink people toward the Moon.

Sigh.

We live in the Space Age folks, and that is damned cool.

Best,
Chris

Comments

[acommonreader.livejournal.com]

LJ always reminds me that I like your brain. I love all of the notes you leave the world, inquiring about all kinds of matters - many and various - and, while I cannot always afford the time to read each of them, I still like your brain.

[/teh done]

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

You make me smile.

Well, ...you know what always (as of late, late last night) makes ME smile?

[acommonreader.livejournal.com]

[Insert better segue here.]

[flash, flash]

LIONS AND TIGERS AVAILABLE FOR VIEWING NOW!

"...only in Ken-yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"





gringrinsmilegrinTIGERSsmilegrin.

Re: Well, ...you know what always (as of late, late last night) makes ME smile?

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Weeeeee!

[jensixstones.livejournal.com]

[crazy thoughts]

If we left right now, I bet we could be there in time.

[/crazy thoughts]

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Ya think...?

hmmm...

almost [/crazy thoughts]

[jensixstones.livejournal.com]

It's only 1,083 miles. Let's see, at 80 miles per hour, it would take 13.5 hours. Add in 1.5 hours for refueling and bathroom breaks. It could be done in 15 hours, less if all caution is disregarded.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

We'd have to figure in the 40 minutes or so for getting speeding violations....

[jensixstones.livejournal.com]

Maybe we could find someone out there to run interference like in Smokey and the Bandit. In this scenario, we'd be the guy in the truck and not in the Trans Am. Yeah, that's the ticket!

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Oooh, and I almost had a vehicle with a CB recently!

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

If you drive an inconspicuous vehicle and always pull right so cops can have the left lane, you can usually go 80 - 90 with no tickets. :)

Or I can, anyway.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

If you drive an inconspicuous vehicle

Um... that might be a problem for me....

[jensixstones.livejournal.com]

Too bad the van is in the shop. No one ever thinks of a minivan as a fast vehicle but I've gone 115mph in it with 5 other passengers.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

Las Cruces is near the Hueco Tanks. If you were wondering.