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Odo has returned to the Great Link
Another TV and movie great has left us a legacy of decades of entertaining, thought-provoking, inspiring stories. Farewell, René Auberjonois. The Great Link welcomes you home. http://blog.trekcore.com/2019/12/rene-auberjonois-star-trek-deep-space-nines-odo-dies/
ESA and NASA? Airbus? Still not ready? 🤦♂️
Right now, engineers have got a dummy rover practising the business of retrieving packaged rock samples. And, yes, the stand-ins really are whiteboard markers. Yay! Whiteboard markers. Um. OK. But different agencies and companies are finally working together? Great! Wait. What’s the catch? It is, though, going to take more than a decade to achieve. […]
It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it. Maybe.
The pattern remains a mystery, but researchers are beginning to narrow the possibilities. While the changes are most likely…geological in nature, planetary scientists can’t completely rule out an explanation involving microbial life. Just as the Viking landers claimed? Uh-oh. Or is it just chemicals (perchlorate, bleach-like substances) in the soil, releasing oxygen and methane depending […]
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First Year Wall (Part 2) – The (not-so voluntary) parent-teacher conference
In mid-April, I went to a parent-teacher conference. Actually, it was more like an enforced PTA committee, which one parent per kid had to attend. As a group. We sat at our kids’ desks (tiny!) and introduced ourselves. This was … Continue reading
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