Shuttle Launched

Nasa put another shuttle up on the 4th of July. It was fun watching it with my brother in law at his 4th party. We pumped the audio of the countdown out to the pool speakers really loud.

It leads me back to my thoughts that the entire human race needs to get on board with a program to put a independant colonoy on the moon or mars. One big rock hits the earth and "wham" there goes our species. Stephen Hawking recenlty went public with a similar view:

The survival of the human race depends on its ability to find new homes elsewhere in the universe because there's an increasing risk that a disaster will destroy the Earth, world-renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said Tuesday.