Rocket Man










Photo by Jim Wilson/New York Times

Seems that something else is burning on the Black Rock Desert.

I found this item in the NY Times.

Something else that's going on out here in the big empty that I only heard about once before, about four years ago. I haven't seen anything in the local press, or the regional press about it, ever.

It looks like a lot of fun. The rockets we used to shoot up (hopefully up!) would only go about a thousand feet, and that was a big one, most of them would only go up a couple of hundred feet. The best were the hand held bottle rockets.

"From Florham Park, N.J., and as far away as London, 100 launchers came - plumbers, paint contractors, firefighters, bankers and Silicon Valley techies united by their passion for building rockets capable of blasting 94,000 feet into the air, at nearly three-and-one-half times the speed of sound, as one record-setter did this weekend."

This, fellow Americans and co-conspirators for a return to a rational, civil and intelligent America, is what we've got.