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: NASA
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Caterpillar: Who are YOU?
Alice: This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. I — I hardly know, sir, just at present — at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
(from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland)
Caterpillar using a hookah. An illustration from Alice in Wonderland (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
H/T to NASA’s Hubble Sees a Cosmic Caterpillar
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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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Show’er Meteor?
Mmm: STARBEARID’S not there…Great balls of fire! (Jerry Lee Lewis)
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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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Opportunity
h/t to NASA -Rock Target ‘Esperance’ altered by Wet History
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A P/2010 A2-Shaped Haiku
Hat Tip to NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope suspected asteroid collision picture, and to Antoine Cassar’s Haiku to Mars article.
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Mercurial Messenger
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FlyFashioNaut
Hat Tip to André Karwath aka Aka for the Drosophila Melanogaster (Remixed by @Michdevilish) This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0Unported License.
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FlyFashioNaut
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