Ever since I was I was a boy, I have been fascinated with robots, and today I have quite a collection of battery operated ones.Little and not so little ones that roll all over the house, amuse my friends and scare their dogs.But there are no robots that fascinate me
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Things Are Good: Mars Terraforming Earth
Mars, the company behind popular chocolate bars like Snickers and Twix has pledged $1 billion dollars to fight climate change. This isn’t a company randomly pledging money to help communities or specific issues address climate change, instead they are focussing on themselves. Mars is the largest chocolate maker on the
Continue readingAlberta Politics: Will deficit hysteria finally pave the way for a sensible Alberta sales tax? Ummm … don’t count on it
PHOTOS: Never mind the political stuff, this is the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory, where astronomer Max Wolf discovered the Minor Planet Climenhaga in 1917. Below, not in the order in which they appear: Alberta Finance Minister Joe Ceci, British Columbia Lieutenant-Governor Judith Guichon, B.C. New Democratic Party Leader John Horgan, and
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Martian Weather
Have a look at what Mars would look like if it had a proper weather satellite.
Continue readingScripturient: The Mouse on Mars
No, that’s not the title of a 1960s’ sitcom or a 1950s’ movie. It’s what some conspiracy theorist thinks he found in a NASA photograph taken by the Curiosity Rover on Mars, in late 2014. The story was posted on the IFL Science w…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Mars: The Death of a Planet
I’m tired and not braining much today, so sit back and enjoy this astronomical short on Mars. 🙂 Filed under: Science Tagged: Death of a Planet, Mars
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: A Big Win for SpaceX
He may be the Charles Lindburgh of our day. Elon Musk – born in South Africa to a Canadian mother. Traveled to Canada, became a Canadian citizen, studied in Canada before moving on to the US where he is now an American citizen. He has five sons by his Canadian
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Who Wants to Be the Piers Morgan of Mars?
Inventor/entrepreneur Elon Musk says he wants to travel to Mars. He’s young enough that he might manage to do that unless he comes to his senses and thinks better of it. Still there are thousands lining up for a chance to make the one-way trip. Some say it is possible (or
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Lights from Space
Tragic fire from space. Check out Mars in great detail. – More link dumping: –Teach your kid how to share. An excellent list of free programs, and ones you cannot trust. Opt out of PRISM. Join your friends in a prism-break. –Send messages encrypted “OTR”. -Journalism’s slide into working for
Continue readingLeDaro: With love from Mars
Mars Rover found an interesting shape on the Mars’ surface. It is a heart shape.
Continue readingLeDaro: Steven Benner: We are all Martians
We are all Martians. A rock brought us on earth. I don’t know about rest of us but Harper and company definitely came from the Mars and have not fully adjusted on earth.:) “The evidence seems to be building that we are actually all Martians; that life started on Mars and
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Mars As Inspiration
Here’s an excellent space exploration mission: Orbit Mars, and return two humans safely in under 2 years. It can be done. Us humans could have several missions launching in 2018, but we just have to decide to do it. Besides the Mars One mission, this is how we expand pride
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Eatin’ Bugs
Insects will be a staple food on Mars and other space colonies. Paul Pardee : Lets have the delegates to the UN have a bug banquet to show their support of entomophagy. I know that support from political leaders would help. I’m sure having the Obamas munching on some meal
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: I’m Drilled On Mars
I’m excited to learn that my name is selected as a site on Mars. I am unable to easily find which John Klein it’s really named after, but I’ll take the collateral naming honour.
Continue readingWalking Turcot Yards: Mars Rover Self Portrait
The next step is probably self consciousness. “NASA has snapped its most amazing self-portrait yet of the Curiosity rover on Mars, showing the robot posing with its ultimate destination: a huge Martian mountain. The new view of Curiosity on Mars is actually a mosaic of dozens of high-definition color photos
Continue readingLeDaro: Mars: Exploration and possibilities
Can we colonize Mars? Some scientists think that yes we can. NASA’s Curiosity rover’s initial pictures.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Mars Laser
We’ve equipped Mars with a laser. Our latest rover there, called Curiosity, actually shoots fricken laser beams from its head. How cool is that? Is there a scientific purpose in aiming the rover’s laser at Earth and detecting the flash here? I think there must be. We could use it
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Mars Sounds
One thing missing from Curiosity, that seems an obvious oversight since it’s included on every mobile computer now, is a MICROPHONE! It would be more of a novelty than anything, which is why it was left out I’m sure, but we apparently have not heard actual recordings from the surface
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Mars Landing Videos
Mars Science Lab which is presently the Curiosity rover, landed on Sunday night Earth time in Saskatchewan. There’s an excellent video first that explains why the landing was carried out in this manner. Then there’s a dramatic version timed with video clips from Earth of the people in charge of
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