Blog visitors from around the world

Astute readers of this blog may have noticed a new item I’ve put on the sidebar, a ‘Flag Counter’.  This little widget attempts to identify each unique visitor to the blog by country.  As may be expected, the vast majority of the visitors are from the US, but there are many visitors from around the world.  My recent favorite is this one:

 
And, if you click on the ‘Palestinian Territory, Occupied’ link, you get this:
 
 
I’m not going to go all political on you, but it is nice to see that someone in this part of the world has an interest in Space Elevators…  Incidentally, all of the information on this site about countries and territories comes from the CIA World Factbook.  Click on the “Click for More” link on the flagcounter to visit the site and see where my readers are coming from.