From: "F"
To: "Parents"
Subj: I now understand why they didn't send me pictures of the outside
Date Posted: 25.11.2010
Hello once again.
[Brilliant opening]
If you don't like it, write it yourself. Also, as should be obvious, Ari' and I are writing these together now, so she doesn't need to sneak comments in after I think they've been sent.
[ Who sneaked anything in? I just edited for clarity and grammar. ]
Of course you did. Anyway, dropping you a line to thank you for pointing out the video clip of the C.A.R.S.S's lift off. Considering some of the ships I've seen since I lifted myself I shouldn't be surprised, but I'm still sort of amazed that she held together.
[I'm not so certain she did. If you watch the video you can see bits falling off. It's not like they had a useful computer system to help them at all. ]
It made it up, and no one died, that's what counts. Although I'm not going to look too closely at where and how they got their hands on all those cargo containers.
I credit Kale's father for the lift-off. As I think I mentioned at some point he's a professional welder, and has very definite [and appropriate] opinions on construction and design. I'm fairly certain that the C.A.R.S.S. was structurally sound, or mostly so before she was 'waved.
We rendezvoused in LEO and I've been showing them around while they get their shakedown flight(s) taken care of. Tell Gramma thanks for the cookies, from both of us.
[Even if some of us can't eat them]
Oh hush. I'll 'wave that old scanner and stick some of the cookies in it, see if that works.
[ ... I'm both thrilled and slightly terrified by the concept of more of your engineering design. ]
Why do I even bother?
F&A
--
"Never formulate a law or axiom without having accepted
universaliability of it."
-- Skud's Cathegorical Axiom
To: "Parents"
Subj: I now understand why they didn't send me pictures of the outside
Date Posted: 25.11.2010
Hello once again.
[Brilliant opening]
If you don't like it, write it yourself. Also, as should be obvious, Ari' and I are writing these together now, so she doesn't need to sneak comments in after I think they've been sent.
[ Who sneaked anything in? I just edited for clarity and grammar. ]
Of course you did. Anyway, dropping you a line to thank you for pointing out the video clip of the C.A.R.S.S's lift off. Considering some of the ships I've seen since I lifted myself I shouldn't be surprised, but I'm still sort of amazed that she held together.
[I'm not so certain she did. If you watch the video you can see bits falling off. It's not like they had a useful computer system to help them at all. ]
It made it up, and no one died, that's what counts. Although I'm not going to look too closely at where and how they got their hands on all those cargo containers.
I credit Kale's father for the lift-off. As I think I mentioned at some point he's a professional welder, and has very definite [and appropriate] opinions on construction and design. I'm fairly certain that the C.A.R.S.S. was structurally sound, or mostly so before she was 'waved.
We rendezvoused in LEO and I've been showing them around while they get their shakedown flight(s) taken care of. Tell Gramma thanks for the cookies, from both of us.
[Even if some of us can't eat them]
Oh hush. I'll 'wave that old scanner and stick some of the cookies in it, see if that works.
[ ... I'm both thrilled and slightly terrified by the concept of more of your engineering design. ]
Why do I even bother?
F&A
--
"Never formulate a law or axiom without having accepted
universaliability of it."
-- Skud's Cathegorical Axiom