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20 Aug 2011, 10:47 am
Mechanical engineering for a robotic craft trying to navigate around the Martian landscape, with much built-in slippage and assumption of many unanticipated failures — limits — might be a better engineering metaphor. [read post]
12 Aug 2011, 2:30 pm
This view combines exposures taken by Opportunity's panoramic camera on the 2,678th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (Aug. 6, 2011) before driving on that sol. [read post]
3 Aug 2011, 3:47 pm
I can see Ender's Game and The Martian Chronicles on a top 10 list, but they seem less weighty to me now, especially the latter. [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 9:41 pm
The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury' Old Man's War by John Scalzi Ringworld by Larry Niven A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin The Vlad Taltos series by Steven Brust It was hard to omit: The Black Company Series, by Glen Cook (the first trilogy only) The Book Of The New Sun, by Gene Wolfe (loved it, but… [read post]
2 Aug 2011, 2:30 pm
The Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, will use its full suite of instruments to study these minerals to provide insights into these ancient Martian environments. [read post]
1 Aug 2011, 9:09 pm
Sure, if we were being invaded by Martians and Congress had been taken over by ET brain parasites, I would want POTUS to step up and do whatever needed to be done by way of national defense Constitutional or otherwise. [read post]
29 Jul 2011, 11:02 pm
As a Martian, popping in here, I wouldn’t have a clue about who’s right on the question of our fiscal crisis. [read post]
28 Jun 2011, 2:30 pm
The spacecraft carried a television camera and six other science instruments to study the Martian atmosphere and surface. [read post]
6 Jun 2011, 6:50 am
It is not clear whether the participants continue to believe that they are Martians. [read post]
26 May 2011, 12:00 pm
Extensive communications activities during the past 10 months also have explored the possibility that Spirit might reawaken as the solar energy available to it increased after a stressful Martian winter without much sunlight. [read post]
6 May 2011, 7:14 am
Most of our regular commenters have continued to focus on CAAFlog’s typical high-minded discourse of important issues like insisting that practitioners keep the phrase “on active duty” in their specifications, the intricacies of offenses involving a glass of milk and a sailor’s penis, and the sublime Jeopardy answer to: Tea leaves, Martians, and pink underwear. [read post]
21 Apr 2011, 1:42 pm
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11 Mar 2011, 7:17 pm
In the plot line,material from Olivia's clothes appeared, (supposedly) by GC/MS analysis to be Martian soil. [read post]
6 Mar 2011, 9:24 pm
Some points that come up: George Mason University School of Law’s eccentric, in fact “almost Martian” hiring strategy (and I mean that last phrase in a nice way); My predictions re: the return of ROTC and military recruiting to previously resistant law school campuses (already, it seems, borne out). [read post]
6 Mar 2011, 3:24 am
"Cory Doctorow: Explaining Creativity to a Martian" http://j.mp/g9C2p9 this is awesome ... [read post]
5 Mar 2011, 6:32 pm
The Martian makes an awkward noise with hir suckers. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 5:04 am
Heck, when the Martians come the department won't even have to change its paperwork.. [read post]
16 Jan 2011, 4:13 pm
There is a scene in The Martian Chronicles (starring Rock Hudson as the chief astronaut) in which, in the final episode, the ambassador of the humans meets the ambassador of the Martians. [read post]
12 Jan 2011, 12:47 pm
The court interpreted the complaint as seeking to allege a conspiracy between the USPTO, Topco, Martian Tucker, and China to defraud Pupols. [read post]
4 Jan 2011, 2:06 am
Martian Entertainment , LLC v. [read post]
