Some time ago I posted about the arrival of NASA’s Phoenix Lander on Mars. I noted that the initial images were essentially a postcard letting us know that it had arrived on the red planet and was getting ready to do some work. One of the primary objectives of the mission was to explore the […]
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The Phoenix has landed
The really interesting tech news at the moment is that the Phoenix lander has landed on Mars. They aimed the thing at the planet, it travelled through space, entered the Martian atmosphere, deployed a parachute to slow its descent, and landed where they wanted it to land. All that is in itself amazing, since so […]
Collision Course Earth
Let’s face it, we’re sitting ducks. The planet has a huge bullseye painted on it just waiting for a giant asteroid to hit the target. But rather than get a breeding population of people and a library of all our history and achievements the hell off the planet, we have apparently decided that manned space […]
