and with duckner left in charge of the heat absorption lake and us having retreated to a safe distanceuter. ..it is time. in three, two, one. engine roars you can feel the rumbling! woo! laughs. that went right through me. wow! that was so loud and so bright, my eyes couldn't — that's like looking at the sun. wow! and finally, it's time to see whether we caught the shot that everyone wants to see. what were the risks? the power could have come out, the trigger could have been wrong, the camera could have melted, an asteroid could have come straight down. 0k, well, ithink that didn't happen. all right. so we seem to have... 0h! 0k. immediately! that's footage. oh, wow. it's just igniting the air. look at the shock waves on the flame. oh my gosh, this is kind of pulsing. that is incredible. that is so cool. so that smoke is coming out at quite a speed. look how dark i made this image, and it is still very bright. but we are seeing detail, we are seeing information right around the end of the booster there. and that is it for this week — i will leave you with the beauty shots. oh, and if