Hold on. Captain Dag is not leaving. Not unless he hasn't been told. He responded to an e-mail today stating that he plans to join the Voyager in LA and captain the entire world cruise.

Which I find extremely good news. He is the complete captain: an excellent seaman; a leader who respects and looks out for his crew and treats them with compasssion;and one who has his customer's best interests at heart.

So please stop the rumoring unless you get some sort of offical world from RSSC, the holding company or Apollo.

In this age of internet babble and cable news talking heads that need to fill 24 hours of dribble, we have gotten used to quickly jumping to conclusions, assigning all sorts of motivations, making unsubstantiated predictions, etc. Hopefully this past election season (22 months!), should have taught us something, but it probably didn't. Just because someone says something, doesn't mean it's news or true. We need to go back to more fact-checking before jumping off cliffs. (OK, I'll get off my soap box.)