Kind of hot

I am waiting for Discovery to undock from the International Space Station, which apparently will take place in a few hours. The astronauts have already closed the hatch between the ISS and the Shuttle, after moving from one to the other through a "mating interface." Space is very sexy. Hence Leia's slave girl metal bikini.

The NASA channel is calming, much like those TV stations that broadcast images of crackling fireplaces on Christmas Eve. Except those fireplaces are rarely hurtling 'round the Earth.