Leonardo Was Not Canadian, But . . . .

[Recycled from 13:01, 27 November 2004]

My lookout tower soars high above the mostly low-lying city of Corvallis, higher even than the County Courthouse downtown (though not as high as the proposed mega-condo that apparently is going to be built down by the riverfront), even higher than some of the Oregon State University buildings up on the hill a few blocks west of me. The lookout would dominate the skyline of the town, except that nobody can see it but me.

Sometimes, climbing the long long ladder to the snug little lookout shelter, I wonder what it would be like to climb aboard an old-fashioned Flash Gordon rocketship:

http://www.arapress.com/aapa.html

What a shame that the real thing was mnever so glamourous-looking.

But that may change, if the da Vinci Project can pull it off:

http://www.davinciproject.com

To the da Vinci Project: Thank you.

[Update, 20 September 2005: They say they're going to do a parachute drop-test of their crew capsule. Not much else in the way of news posted at their site lately.]

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