Enterprise

Such surreal news today, and probably with far-reaching consequences. Looking out into the brilliant blue of the bay, with all the little sailboats, and seeing the pictures of Cape Canaveral bathed in sun just makes it seem all the more surreal. After all, things are a little different when it happens for a second time; and now we don't have even Mr. Feynmann to solve it.

There's some symbolic difference, I think, in failing while leaving the earth, and failing while returning -- and over Texas, too. For some reason it has me thinking about Ray Bradbury, maybe the Martian Chronicles.