To The Moon And Boom!

Elon Musk and some Japanese billionaire were in the news yesterday and the pair have teamed up to take 'space tourists' to the moon and back. I didn't catch how much it might cost 'space tourists' to trip off to the moon and back. No science astronauts are to be on this lunar visit, nope, just everyday and ordinary folks that can afford such an endeavor. So and as television viewers learned later on, Musk's 'space tourist' rocket had a "high altitude" testing the very same day as Musk and the Japanese billionaire made their stunning announcement for 'space tourists'. Musk's "high altitude" testing made it to whatever their 'high altitude' mark may have been and then...and then...the "high altitude" testing came up a crapper. Oh yeah the damn rocket made it's return landing to Musk's test launching pad and exploded. The rocket is the very same model that Musk and the Japanese billionaire guy were informing a waiting to space tourist world the tourists would fly to the moon and back. Of course the coming back part seems just a shade explosive. All the way to the moon and back, stick the landing, and then ashes to explosive ashes and the pieces will be scattered for miles around in every direction. There really won't be too much of the 'space tourists' left to pick through after an explosive space rocket landing that goes...ka-blast-it-all. Of course after one spectacular to the moon and back adventure of a lifetime, going out in shock waves of explosive glory probably isn't such a bad way to go. I'm mean you can get run over and killed simply walking to the store. The sad part about getting run over is that you might not get killed on initial impact. Nope. You might have to hang around some intensive care unit and spend days on end being plugged in and wired all over your body and then die slowly and possibly in a coma. Which being in a coma might not be so bad and would certainly be better than being awake and have all this misery inflicted on your sadly busted up body. Yeah, a space touristy rocket blast at landing would be preferable. Anyway, Musk and the Japanese billionaire guy didn't take any questions after their "joint announcement." I can't figure for the life of me why they wouldn't want to take any questions... :] On to the machine art and no explosions on this fine morning.

NASA and yes space Amerika is going to the birds -

horses which have absolutely nothing to do with NASA -

with rocketry being a rather dicey proposition still, just wait until the science whiz kids try teleportation. beam me up Scotty...