I do so appreciate headlines which describe so accurately and sympathetically the detailed work which goes into advanced scientific research:
Nasa's Curiosity rover prepares to zap Martian rocks
Also posted at http://sir-guinglain.dreamwidth.org/533551.html.
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Posted by: parrot_knight (
 parrot_knight) Posted at: August 18th, 2012 10:40 am (UTC)
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Surely Curiosity is designed to be cute, though? It is to be offered to any Martians as a pet, in case of major miscalculation about the proerties of the planet.
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Posted by: parrot_knight (
parrot_knight) Posted at: August 18th, 2012 09:09 pm (UTC)
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The top secret natives of Mars might be feline...
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Posted by: daniel_saunders (
daniel_saunders) Posted at: August 18th, 2012 09:29 pm (UTC)
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Invasion of the Cat-Women from Mars!!!! could have been a fifties B-movie. See also my comment below.
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Posted by: parrot_knight (
parrot_knight) Posted at: August 18th, 2012 09:33 pm (UTC)
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If it had waited a decade or so, it could have starred Miaow Farrow...
Edited at 2012-08-18 09:33 pm (UTC)
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Posted by: thanatos_kalos (
thanatos_kalos) Posted at: August 18th, 2012 12:09 pm (UTC)
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*sporfle* If that's how Auntie describes it, I shudder to think what the barely-literate USA Today says...
(When I did geology I never got to zap rocks. *pout*)
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Posted by: parrot_knight (
parrot_knight) Posted at: August 18th, 2012 12:18 pm (UTC)
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A friend on Facebook hailed humanity's declaration of war on all silicon-based lifeforms...
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Posted by: thanatos_kalos (
thanatos_kalos) Posted at: August 18th, 2012 01:15 pm (UTC)
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I, for one, welcome our new silicon overlords...
(though they're zapping a basalt, so more iron & magnesium than silica...)
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Posted by: parrot_knight (
parrot_knight) Posted at: August 18th, 2012 05:55 pm (UTC)
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They couldn't do any worse than their predecessors...
(well, actually they could, but the sentiment seemed to call for resigned glumness)
Edited at 2012-08-18 05:56 pm (UTC)
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Posted by: daniel_saunders (
daniel_saunders) Posted at: August 18th, 2012 09:04 pm (UTC)
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Do you think when Curiosity zapped it, the screens back at Houston went all wibbly-wobbly thanks to use of mirrolon?
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Posted by: parrot_knight (
parrot_knight) Posted at: August 18th, 2012 09:09 pm (UTC)
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That, and/or there was a camera afterimage as the vision system was overloaded.
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Posted by: daniel_saunders (
daniel_saunders) Posted at: August 18th, 2012 09:26 pm (UTC)
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The other fun BBC news thing recently has been listening to newsreaders trying to say "Pussy Riot" in an appropriately BBC-type voice. I tried to imagine what Walter Greenslade would make of it all.
Of course, in my naivety, I think that Pussy Riot refers to naughty cats - has Marmite been arrested by the Russian government?
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Posted by: parrot_knight (
parrot_knight) Posted at: August 18th, 2012 09:36 pm (UTC)
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Marmite's current bad habit involves catching shrews, which perhaps is the kind of activity the Russian government would want to promote..!
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Posted by: parrot_knight (
parrot_knight) Posted at: August 19th, 2012 04:49 pm (UTC)
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The rocks are probably life-forms anyway...!
It's probably a Ponder-frustrating indictment of my humanities education that I find Curiosity cute.