Look into those phobossy eyes…
Sad Ice and Green Tea: Sounds like a song yet to be composed. Better than a Total Eclipse of the Heart?
H/T to “What’s better than a total Eclipse of the Sun?” / NASA/JPL-Caltech
Tag: Mars
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H/T to Extremophiles: Life on Mars and Amazing Magenta Lakes
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So…life from Mars?
I wouldn’t bet on it, but the idea that life began on Mars & flew here by meteorite is not totally silly http://t.co/hbQHe3HyOp
— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) August 29, 2013
StarBear also features in the Tardigrada Newsletter this month!
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Blue GLove Haiku
An update on the MAVEN contest! Here is the winning one:
It’s funny, they named
Mars after the God of War
Have a look at Earth
Benedict Smith
United Kingdom
Next project, after knitting a Klein beanie/toque, will be blue gloves!
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MAVEN Haiku
Only a few days left to send your haiku to Mars!
(h/t to NPR)
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Dry Eyes Haiku
original image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
(h/t to NASA- Linear Gullies Inside Russell Crater, Mars; Mission News, Marks on Martian Dunes May Be Tracks of Dry-Ice Sleds)
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Opportunity
h/t to NASA -Rock Target ‘Esperance’ altered by Wet History
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The Patient Thinker
Of course you’ll get hungry if you listen to Martian News over lunchtime…not enough organics yet to satisfy an earthen appetite.
Translation: “There is nothing over which a free man ponders less than death; his wisdom is to meditate not on death but on life.” (HatTip to What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger, first published in 1944, only 32p long!)
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Two Sons or Two Moons
Imagine having two moons rising! (Cue Creedence Clearwater Revival). The mythological ones were pretty terrifying, for sure. (‘Wonder if Calvin and Hobbes ever saw them?)
From Wikipedia:
In Greek mythology, Deimos (Ancient Greek: Δεῖμος, pronounced [dêːmos], meaning “dread”) was the personification of terror.
He was the son of Ares and Aphrodite. He is the twin brother of Phobos and the goddess Enyo who accompanied Ares into battle, as well as his father’s attendants, Trembling, Fear, Dread and Panic. Deimos is more of a personification and an abstraction of the sheer terror that is brought by war and he never appeared as an actual character in any story in Greek Mythology. His Roman equivalent was Formido or Metus.
Asaph Hall, who discovered the moons of Mars, named one Deimos, and the other Phobos.
On the modern monument to the battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas’ shield has a representation of Deimos.
(Edit (Dec 3, 2012): If you follow the links, you’ll discover (today) that one of the joys of Wikipedia is that the narrative changes continuously…today it cites “the battle of poo“…clearly some editor had had enough…This will, perchance, be altered again by a little more factual version. Poo battles will happen, after all. If I were clever enough I would be a Wikipedia editor. Do support them.)
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Maler, Mahler, Mulling, Methane (Mmmm…)
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Check out this interesting update:
And if you’re interested in the Mars weather: Malin Space Science Systems, MARCI beaucoup! You too can see where Utopia is. Lots of dust devils in Utopia…
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