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Get your arse to Mars
posted in Space by Cargo Cult on Friday November 6 2015
Another one of my side-projects went out of control, this time becoming part of a temporary exhibit for the Museum of Flight's Spacefest event. Disclaimer: Our HMDs are not hermetically sealed agai ...
Archive for August 2013
Sunday Things - what-if space edition
posted in Space by Cargo Cult on Sunday August 25 2013
SPAAAAAACE! PPD-11 Hitchhiker Storage Container What might have been: Visiting Mars and Venus with Apollo-era hardware - expecting a wave of public enthusiasm following the Apollo landings, NAS ...
Archive for November 2012
BREAKING NEWS - ROCKS DISCOVERED ON MARS
posted in Space by Cargo Cult on Sunday November 25 2012
I love the raw images service provided by the Mars Science Laboratory teams. Inexplicable lumps of an alien world appearing like jigsaw pieces, just asking to be reassembled into something more unders ...
STOP PRESS - THE SPACE-ROBOT HAS MOVED
posted in Space by Cargo Cult on Wednesday November 21 2012
That Martian space-robot has gone for another space-drive - having poked and sniffed and ingested lots of Martian space-dust over the past weeks. Did it detect something important? We don't know yet! ...
STOP PRESS - THAT SPACE-ROBOT IS STILL ON MARS
posted in Space by Cargo Cult on Thursday November 1 2012
Raw images spotted! Self-portaiture using MAHLI instrument verified! Unofficial MSL Curiosity self-portrait assembled using Hugin! Dust-covered camera lens cap retracted! MSL Curiosity self-portrai ...
Archive for September 2012
STOP PRESS (again) - THE ROBOT IS LOOKING AT US
posted in Space by Cargo Cult on Sunday September 9 2012
Beady little spider-eyes? That Martian robot has gained sentience, and is looking at us. It can see itself, and it knows we can see it. Forget the cute, cuddly and anthropomorphic mastcam self-port ...
STOP PRESS - THERE IS A ROBOT ON MARS
posted in Space by Cargo Cult on Friday September 7 2012
CURIOUS ROBOT Telemetry indicates that the robot naming itself 'MSL Curiosity' has gained self-awareness and is now observing itself using its own imaging hardware. Fortunately it has yet to fig ...
Archive for June 2012
Space is Big
posted in Space by Cargo Cult on Thursday June 7 2012
Surprisingly, the weather in Seattle on Tuesday was utterly and totally cloudy - just like it had been for the annular eclipse of the sun a few weeks ago. Fortunately, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observa ...
