I was watching NASA’s channel,—admiring Discovery’s pitch maneuver as it approaches to dock with the ISS—and I found myself thinking: “This is glacially slow.” So I speeded it up by four.*

While launching is a pretty fast business, maneuvering in space is even more boring than turtle porn. How are we ever going to have space battles, I don’t know. But for sure, they will look more like Star Trek than Star Wars. [NASA]

* And added the Conchors, of course (go buy the damn album already.)

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