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Happy birthday, Deltarune. As a celebration, I wanted to send a meme I made.
If you know Doctor Who series 3 and Life on Mars, you might get it:
Here come the drums, drums!
Is he [[living in a goddamn garbage can]], [[50% off]] his mind, or has he [[HYPERLINK BLOCKED]]?
So, a stereotypical extra terrestrial is described as the ‘Grey Alien Species’. You know, big head, huge eyes, pointy chin, tiny nostrils, slit mouth, small body. Am I the only one waiting for alien sightings to start including the description of Ziggy Stardust? You know, red mullet that is somehow insanely attractive, each eye a different, captivating ocean of glory, strikingly long and slender bone structure, smirk that makes ovaries burst.
Patron Saint of Metalfaces
Next stop: Mars! Watch NASA's Perseverance Rover Attempt the Most Dangerous Landing to Date on Feb. 18
Tomorrow, Feb. 18, 2021, our most advanced rover named Perseverance will attempt a precision landing in Mars' Jezero Crater. Her mission is to search for signs of ancient life in the planet's geology and test technology that will pave the way for future human missions to the Moon and Mars. Excited yet? Get this:
Perseverance is ferrying 25 cameras to the Red Planet — the most ever flown in the history of deep-space exploration — so get ready to see Mars like never before! For more mission quick facts, click here.
When to watch:
Date: Feb. 18
Time: Live coverage starts at 2:15 p.m. EST (19:15 UTC)
SET A REMINDER & WATCH LIVE HERE
Want to join the #CountdownToMars? We created a virtual Mars photo booth, have sounds of Mars to listen to and more for all you Earthlings to channel your inner Martian. Check out ways to participate HERE.
If you want to follow Perseverance's journey on the Red Planet, be sure to follow her on Facebook and Twitter.
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Governor Sunshine: President of Mars
The happiest man I know in this region lives in between the two hubs of our small martian colony. He often sits outside where the lawn meets the sidewalk and greets anyone who passes. As I prepare to depart the martian colony in my beaten blue shuttle, I stop for protein at the hub for quality homestyle nourishment. He wanders in and chats with the group of young women in the booth behind me. Greets the young men who walk in to rush their friends for departure, then he says goodbye to the young women and leaves.
I met him once on a day last year walking back to the habit. I sat and chatted with him for a bit. He was injured when he was young in a shuttle accident, his mind and his leg will never be quite right, but he is happy. He spends his days watching sunrises and sunsets, chatting with anyone near about anything, and watching game shows. Some people call him Governor, others call him Sunshine, few call him by his real name, but he expresses pure innocent joy towards everyone and as far as I'm concerned, he's President of Mars.
Healthy Life Choices:
My mother insists I eat more protein as my post-flu diet has been poor.
My doctor insists I increase my iron intake as my Martian diet lacks meats.
I think... I have found a solution:
An Exercise in Unpacking & Havin' More Fun:
Imagine this:
Your shuttle, a lovely blue craft old enough to vote, returns you to mars late enough in the sol that it is already dark and you can feel the cold of the atmosphere in spite of your insulative layers.
Alone, you must unpack your craft and the extensive resupply materials it contains. Because you are alone you cannot leave the craft docked in front of the mass housing unit and since nearby docks are taken you must dock up hill from the housing unit.
How then do you get the supplies into your personal chamber???
Well, if you're me...
While wearing full insulative equipment you drag one of the carts up the hill, load it with the supplies, increasing its mass significantly. Then you push it and a rolling desk chair toward the hill, hop into the rolling desk chair and hold on.
I may be many things, but I'm certain I had the most fun in unpacking.
The best laid plans of Martians & “I think it’s gonna be a long long time”
I packed my bags tonight, pre-flight....
And everything went south from there, and not in the way I intended.
After much deliberation and anticipation packed and climbed into my MAV. This was after, I should note, clearing the frozen Martian precipitation from my windshield. And yes, I know what you’re thinking ‘snow can’t fall on mars’, but due to the atmospheric regulations in this particular valley it does, and what was particularly relevant to me this afternoon was not the particulars of how this is possible but more the difficulty of clearing it from my vehicle. I did so in only the most sophisticated and intuitive manner (utalizing a baseball cap, sock and plastic butter knife when I discovered my car lacked a snow scraper).
So at long last, I began the journey.
And then I had no breaks. I do not know what is wrong with them, and I wasn’t about to use my education in engineering to stand out in the cold and figure out how they work, or more accurately why they didn’t. I decided I was satisfied with sayin’ alive.
So my night went south, without me actually making it any further south. Ah well “the best laid plans of mice and [martians] so often fall astray” (Burns, To A Mouse). I guess it’s gonna be “a long long time” before I get home again (Elton John, Rocket Man).
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NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Sol 62
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kDVAbPBA6zg
NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Sol 61
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VVE4AH684GE
NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Sol 59
Left Navcam Images from Mars Rover Curiosity on Sol 1786
Left and Right Rear Hazcam Images from Mars Rover Curiosity on Sol 1786
Rear Hazard Avoidance Cameras Rear Hazcams images for Sol 42 Mars Curiosity
Rear Hazard Avoidance Cameras Rear Hazcams images for Sol 42 Mars Curiosity
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Rear Hazard Avoidance Cameras (Rear Hazcams) images for Sol 42
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