5 month ago
deusx : Hostin: It's Naked Cowboy, 1; naked M&M, 0 - CNN.com - "plausibly argues that consumers would believe that the M&M Cowboy characters were promoting a product rather than merely parodying The Naked Cowboy, and that viewers would believe that The Naked Cowboy had endorsed M&Ms"
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6 month ago
deusx : Charlie's Diary: Alternative boondoggles - "Either way, the direct costs of the Iraq war exceed the maximum cost estimate for a manned Mars expedition, infrastructure and all, by 20%"
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6 month ago
nelson : Twitter / MarsPhoenix - Follow the lander
Simon Willison : Twitter / MarsPhoenix - Twitter / MarsPhoenix. NASA’s Mars Phoenix lander, due to land on the planet today, has a Twitter account. Bio: “I dig Mars!”.
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25 month ago
deusx : The Onion: Mars Rover Beginning To Hate Mars - The conceit, originating on LJ, that Spirit is a disgruntled goth, while Opportunity is an what we'd call in High School days - a "social" has gone mainstream.
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26 month ago
plasticbag : The BBC report on the spotting of the Mars rover from space - I'll resist the temptation to mock and say that we sort of already knew that was there, and instead ask why on earth the BBC or NASA would say that there's a picture of the mars rover that's visible from space and then show a picture in which it clearly i
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33 month ago
Philippe Janvier : Google Mars - "Some of the most detailed scientific maps of Mars ever made created by Google in collaboration with NASA researchers at Arizona State University." [via] #
plasticbag : Google Mars - It's just beautiful and awesome and fascinating and cool. That's all. Difficult to argue with how neat it is.
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33 month ago
deusx : BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Mars orbiter reaches Red Planet - "The re-establishment of contact half an hour later was met with jubilation from the mission team at the US space agency's (Nasa) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California."
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40 month ago
plasticbag : What I'd say to the Martians (being a really funny New Yorker rant) - "People of Mars, you say we are brutes and savages. But let me tell you one thing: if I could get loose from this cage you have me in, would tear you guys a new Martian asshole"
deusx : The New Yorker: Shouts and Murmurs - WHAT I’D SAY TO THE MARTIANS - "by Jack Handey"
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44 month ago
deusx : APOD: 2005 April 1 - Water on Mars - Holy crap! Water on Mars! (Holy crap, I hate April 1st)
Andy Baio : NASA photo of water on Mars - also: Life on Mars
Jeremy Zawodny : Water on Mars - Water on Mars: finally... evidence!
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46 month ago
jkottke : NASA has found "strong evidence" that life currently exists on Mars - Fluctuating methane levels and the presence of sulfate jarosite may indicate that life is present.
plasticbag : NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars - It's all to do with methane emissions from subterranean caves. Very hopeful about this one. Life on another planet - however trivial and basic - would blow the world open...
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