History in the making!
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 10:17 am
I HATE simple cable!
While the big three networks were carping about the Middle East, Bill Clinton's memoirs (all about the sex, bay-bee!) and the usual morning show blather, they only gave scant reference to history being made.
Scaled Composites is well on its way to winning the $10M X-Prize with their successful test flight today where they sent a small rocketship 100km up - where "outer space" begins. This flight marked the first time in history (yes, history) where privately-owned manned spacecraft made it into outer space.
CNN said they were showing it live, but my current cable level don't support that.
The only minor consolation I got was watching Katie Couric sweating a bit when she was chatting with Michael Moore (who I find disagreeable and loud) r.e. "Fahrenheit 9/11" - he was trying to wrest control of the interview from her.
All the other news that's going on in the world would have been there an hour later. Heck, even Al-Jazeera had a spot on their front page about the flight.
The newsies could have taken a little break from the regular news of the day to cover something of importance that would have generated less controversy than President Reagan's passing.
Ahh humanity!
While the big three networks were carping about the Middle East, Bill Clinton's memoirs (all about the sex, bay-bee!) and the usual morning show blather, they only gave scant reference to history being made.
Scaled Composites is well on its way to winning the $10M X-Prize with their successful test flight today where they sent a small rocketship 100km up - where "outer space" begins. This flight marked the first time in history (yes, history) where privately-owned manned spacecraft made it into outer space.
CNN said they were showing it live, but my current cable level don't support that.
The only minor consolation I got was watching Katie Couric sweating a bit when she was chatting with Michael Moore (who I find disagreeable and loud) r.e. "Fahrenheit 9/11" - he was trying to wrest control of the interview from her.
All the other news that's going on in the world would have been there an hour later. Heck, even Al-Jazeera had a spot on their front page about the flight.
The newsies could have taken a little break from the regular news of the day to cover something of importance that would have generated less controversy than President Reagan's passing.
Ahh humanity!