The most sophisticated space probe ever sent to another planet is set to enter orbit around Mars today:
The tension is mounting for scientists and engineers of NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) mission as their spacecraft heads toward a red planet rendezvous today.
MRO is expected to enter Mars orbit after a 27-minute maneuver around the planet’s southern hemisphere, completing a seven-month trek. That burn is set to begin at 4:25 p.m. EST (2125 GMT) this afternoon, with MRO swinging back into communications range by 5:16 p.m. EST (2216 GMT).
NASA has not had the best of luck in getting probes into Martian orbit, so I imagine there are many crossed fingers....
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Life size chocolate skulls
These "life sized" and realistic confections, cast from an actual human skull, are worthy competition to any Jack-O-Lantern. Composed of the highest quality mixture of white and milk chocolates, Marina's Chocolate Skulls are a sensual way to celebrate the 'deep dark sleep that comforts all but the living'.
This is where the two-party system really screws you. It forces people to choose between these huge coalitions of interests.
I mean, what the hell to unregulated capitalism and social conservatism have to do with each other? (I know this is an idealised version of the current Republican platform, which is actually closer to Kleptocracy plus social conservatism.)
I like the sound of instant runoff elections where you vote for more than one candidate. I think it could open things up a bit.
If the advil doesn't kick in soon, I'm probably going to hurl all over my desk. It's so stupid that certain kinds of upper back pain make me pukey. I want a redesign.
so it makes all this bullshit about protecting the fetuses really about controlling women and denouncing women's sexuality.
Because women are NOT allowed to fuck without consequences! That would be Wrong. And we're certainly NOT allowed to make up our own minds about what to do with our own bodies, because we're apparently too ignorant (read "willful") to just fall in line with that the government (read "patriarchy") says we should do.
Shit, this government doesn't see us as anything more than incubators, and I totally believe that.
Life size chocolate skulls
Alas, poor Yorick; I ate him well, Horatio....
Clearly I am not going to get any work done until my food gets here in half an hour.
I'd love a chocolate skull, if they weren't mostly white chocolate (not actually chocolate by any stretch of the imagination) and also $143. Yipes!
The New Yorker is getting really angry lately. In a polite way. It's kinda fun.
Because women are NOT allowed to fuck without consequences! That would be Wrong.
This is why I'd like to see a lot more publicity to the "more child support payments" line I've been seeing in certain blogs.
Shit, this government doesn't see us as anything more than incubators, and I totally believe that.
Unless you're Condi Rice. Or Harriet Myers. Or... actually, Bush is known to surround himself with single women who totally suck up to him.
