It's lookin' good. It's goin' good. We're gettin' great pictures here at NASA Control, Pasadena.
Weeeeeeoooooo, weeeeeoooooo, weeeeeeeoooooo...
Nuclear-powered space tank Curiosity as struck another blow for humanity by scorching Mars with seven smears of its mighty lasers. NASA published photos of the rover's latest exploits yesterday, explaining that the latest unfurling of Curiosity's laser weapons was done after the vehicle had first unleashed its drill and …
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"Residents of the Utopia plateau on Barsoom were puzzled to find more evidence of possible civilization dating back to well before our own. The recent discovery of what appears to be directed energy weapon drill marks on native rock combined with plutonium 238 dating suggesting enormous age gave more ammunition to the "Young Barsoom" conspiracy theorists.
Prof. Gagravaar Delile, the famous Barsoomian geologist suggests that combined with the recent discovery of metallic objects on a nearby mountain with anomalous isotope ratios this could be proof that thousands of Cycles ago life was seeded from outside Barsoom by some other civilization."
Simon Sharwood, Hi,
Do I detect a less than fullsome awe-filled appreciation of what is being done .... supposedly on Mars, whilst Rome burns and Nero fiddles and IT is assailed and assaulted/caressed and riddled with 0days being ruthlessly and relentlessly exploited and expanded to XSSXXXX on Mother Earth?
Hmmm? A system which finds home truths dislikable is a corrupt and increasingly easily further catastrophically disabled, collapsed system with patently ineffectual executive admins/downvoters? :-)
Crikey, Friday already. Time for beverage, methinks. Cheers!
I'm puzzled!
Where does Curiosity keep the cones, metal rods and bits of red plastic telling pedestrians to "use the other footway"? I've looked carefully at the pix of the machine and I just cannot see how they fit on it.
And how does the Council worker get there, where is he/she hiding?
"There I was digging this 'ole
'ole in the ground,
square and sort of round it was...."
When up came a bloke in a bowler...
"You can't dig there, dig it elsewhere,
you're digging it round and it orta be square.."
Always wondered how Bernard Cribbins could see into the future; now I know!
...is smaller than you might think - 16 mm in diameter and 65mm deep.
Simon missed another ten laser strikes: as well as the seven inside the hole there's an 8th on the drillings at the rim and another nine in a row just beyond to hole, just visible at the top right of the picture, or can be seen in all their destructive glory here:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/whatsnew/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowNews&NewsID=1634
Sad and surprising is misunderstanding evident things by people. Like a difference between the two meanings of "Check!" in chess and radio jargon. Sort of you're first an enemy for them, and only then - or after then - somebody else. Pity.
And, taking into account the most multifunctional intelligence apparatus in the nearest known proximity, which was presumably thought to have same good and better analytic tools/minds, the question of being so intensed leaves quite little hope to not qualify the BKAC Space Inhabitants as sitting in the field of...
Ah, Does One Care!
http://youtu.be/dihjTI2V5bA