The Moon encounters a swirling anomaly that makes everybody walk sideways. They are accelerating 'off the clock'. This doesn't mean that they won't be paid overtime, however. It is an indication that time is a component of acceleration. Everything gets all glowy and we start to see double images of the Alphans as two images of the moon separate. We are also sort of introduced to our "Special Guest star about to die"… Regina, with a hard 'g', played by Judy Geeson.

The US Air Force will be testing the X-51 on May 25 and it is hoped that this will lead to a new Space Plane and a Prompt Global Strike missile in 10 to 15 years. The X-51 dropped from a B-52 at 50,000 ft will be accelerated to Mack 4 and 70,000 ft by a solid fuel rocket. The scramjet using conventional jet fuel will then power the X-51 to over Mack 6 (over 4000 m/hr) and 100,000 ft plus.

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Alyssa Suede Campbell is, according to Wikipedia, the sister of Beck, who I don't like. I also don't care for this song, but, you know, you might like it. Probably not, but, you know, take a chance and see if there's a place for chicks with bad wigs and mediocre voices in your life.

Owing to inclement weather and rolling blackouts (The 21st Century! Who knew?), R2 hasn't been able to get a review of this week's Dr. Who up and running yet. He says he'll get to it just ASAP, but for the time being, he asked me to start an Open Thread to discuss the two-parter.
So what did you fine folks think? Sound off below!

Our Friday of unimpressive fare continues - or so I thought it did - with a paint-by-the-numbers episode of Generator Rex that started off all-too-simple, but ended up surprising me. I really, really needed surprising tonight, so I’m pretty grateful. They ended up going in directions I hadn’t foreseen, and it ratchets up the complexity of the series quite a bit.

Ok, yeah, I’m just not feeling it tonight. We’re coming off a really solid five-episode winning streak for SGU, so I suppose we were due for a downturn. This is just a fumble, it’s not a complete failure, but, of course it’s not a complete success either and…well, I just kept waiting for the big twist that never really showed up.

It's the final showdown for Clark and Zod... this has been brewing for a year. Who comes out on top?
And was it worth watching?

The Hollywood Reporter (No, I've never heard of it before either. Must be a local Florida paper or something) is reporting that FlashForward, the ambitious, experimental, but ultimately not-very-good SF series on ABC is dead, dead, deadily-dead.
Did I say 'dead?' That's actually a bit premature. The story doesn't actually *Say* FF is dead, but it's "Unlikely to return," this after its initial episode order was already whittled down by several hours several months back.

At 14:20 (2:20pm) EDT the Shuttle Atlantis left the pad in Florida for its last trip into orbit and the ISS. Maybe it’s the sailor in me that thinks of ships as living things but watching the picture perfect launch I felt sad. I know the shuttles never lived up to their hype a victim of Nixon’s political scheming and Carter’s lack of vision.
The Shuttles are dangerous and almost bankrupted NASA but the idea that when Atlantis returns it will be striped of usable parts and sent to some museum to be gawked at and rust away as the US forgets what made us great.