The Danewirk (hattip Biopix)While we’ve been obsessing about Ahmadinejad, they’ve been busy. Now the entire eastern seaboard of the US is within range of Danish missiles. Well, according a very modest statement by the guys at Copenhagen Suborbital about their amazing “amateur” rocket, tomorrow’s unmanned test launch is “only” supposed to reach an altitude of 30 km. Go, baby, go!
There’s more cool news from Denmark. Back in the day of Charlemagne, there was a wall across the base of their peninsula with only one gate in it. Ten feet thick and 19 miles long, the Danevirke, or “Work of the Danes” is the largest earthwork in northern Europe. According to Germany’s Spiegel, after seaching for it for a century, archeologist have now found the “gateway to the Viking empire.”
I am Doug Drake, and I live in Maryland, not far from Washington, DC. I am a graduate of West Point, and I hold a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of Wisconsin. My blog reflects my enduring fascination with human nature and human morality.
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