Wednesday, September 29, 2004

SpaceShipOne about to launch

SpaceShipOne is about to launch at 2pm - I think! The BBC site says it is due to go at 1pm GMT. I'm crap at the whole clock going forward/backwards for BST so I'm unsure whether 1pm GMT is 12pm BST or 2pm BST. As no one is reporting it has took off yet I'll plump for 2pm.

UPDATE: The New Scientist says it will actually be at 1447 BST - so in about an hour then.

8 comments:

mmChronic said...

Veh good! I didn't know that one. Of course it does mean speaking Merkinese for a short time. :)

I do like a good aide memoire (two of my favourites are Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived. or Mites grow up, tights come down.) but can never remember most of them! ;)

Newcastle Photos said...

I remember being taught the mites/tights thing at North View Junior School when i was a very young, it stuck to this day.

mmChronic said...

Yeah the mites/tights one is from Northview for me too. I've carried that around in my head for over a quarter of a century!

I knew the rainbow one but not the planet one. I can't even do the "30(1?) days hath September" one. The only months I know for definite how many days there are in are February (because of it's oddness) and December (as the 31st is New Year's Eve.)

mmChronic said...

I just look at the calendar in the desktray! ;)

The only chemistry teacher I can remember was a sadist rather than insane - but I think that's because he was a craft teacher as well and it's a rule that craft teachers must be twats.

bungers said...

Stalactites hang on tight, stalacmites *might* fall over.

My school days were much less "Benny Hill" than yours...

;)

mmChronic said...

And obviously much less effective. ;)

bungers said...

Did it work then...? Did it go to space...?

mmChronic said...

That would have been v cool...

And yes it's gone...