Monday, November 28, 2005

counting up?

T minus 5 days and all's peaceful here on the launchpad. As Guy Browning said in Saturday’s Guardian:

"anybody who has ever been disappointed at the cancelled launch of a space rocket must wonder why they don't count up rather than down. If mission control started at one and went up, they'd have a lot more time to check things before pushing the button. Who cares if liftoff is after 34,216? In space time, that's almost nothing."

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