So this could be exciting: Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now
Scientists working on NASA's six-wheeled rover on Mars have a problem. But it's a good problem.
They have some exciting new results from one of the rover's instruments. On the one hand, they'd like to tell everybody what they found, but on the other, they have to wait because they want to make sure their results are not just some fluke or error in their instrument.
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SAM is a kind of miniature chemistry lab. Put a sample of Martian soil or rock or even air inside SAM, and it will tell you what the sample is made of.
Grotzinger says they recently put a soil sample in SAM, and the analysis shows something earthshaking. "This data is gonna be one for the history books. It's looking really good," he says.
We'll probably have to wait a few weeks for the announcement of what they found. But "earthshaking" and "one for the history books" makes me think they found evidence of life.
(This is not the methane false alarm they had last week.)
'"This datadatum is gonna be one for the history books. It's looking really good," he says.'
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"This datadatum is gonna be one for the history books. It's looking really good," he says."
"LIFE ON MARS!" he says, spraying champagne all over the lab.
"LIFE ON MARS!" he says, spraying champagne all over the lab
Forgive me, but I'm going to wait for the UK life on Mars, if you don't mind.
seems like a rather inaccurate description of the book
Inaccurate and not trivial. That shifts it from an exercise in "See how you like it?" to "Other people's inner conversations". Thanks!
msbelle, that sounds great for Mac. Is it possible to incentivisereward him within the books themselves? Or is that a bad idea, to set up a certain kind of book (maybe comics?) as a reward for the broccoli reading? I am never sure what's underscoring "this is a chore" and what is making the stick look more like a carrot.
In random news, my boss gave us each a paperwhite bulb in a jar as a gift
I am still not at the part yet where this isn't a v. generous gift of e-readers to everyone...
I was actually a little worried about that, since I knew a few years ago they had put each other as backups and I knew that wouldn't work any more
I don't know what he's doing, exactly. I've made a point about never looking at my parents' financial setups, and that's pretty silly in the light of day. I just...I feel safer not knowing. Hello, call for Not About You holding on the white courtesy phone? But I don't know if this is my inheritance, or it's a backup plan. He did say he expected us not to fight, but I've never even mentioned to my sister that he was doing this, quite precisely because I was avoiding knowing enough information to have anything other than a fraught convo. I should probably have a chat sooner rather than later.
Kat, if it's not the wrong (and never right) time to ask, what are the goals of this procedure specifically?
Neuro's assistant called me because I'm on her boss's calendar as having an appointment today, but not actually in the System system. She wanted to make sure I didn't come in by mistake, and we're safe on that one. It's not in my system either. And she wanted to check up and see if my ER visit had gone okay. I wish I had an answer in a bigger scope than day before yesterday, but it's basically that the attending and I go way back, and he's been understanding and kind this whole time, so I don't know if it was personal or procedure that got me treated well. Still, I always appreciate him coming and talking to me...wait, I just realised I don't know if he's an attending or a resident--I've assumed attending because whenever he sees me, I always get the right dosage, but many of the residents will tell me that decision is out of their hands. Well, maybe he's in between. Whichever way, he's on my side, and I like that (especially in a visit with no familiar nurses--it's kinda sad how much I don't like that).
Co-worker is taunting me with the Samsung S3. Bastard. But it's the prettiest damned phone I've held/seen in a while, and he's gotten the (correct) idea that if I see it in burgundy, I'm way weaker in this battle of wills.
I don't have to work Thanksgiving! Either all the adjusters in the Northeast are dialing back this week or they've got things under control.
Sadly, I think everyone's going, "I'm going home for Thanksgiving, dammit, I haven't seen my family in a month, I'll pick this up next week." Which means working through lunch for another few weeks, probably.
October Was 332nd Consecutive Globally Warm Month
Twenty-seven or younger? Then you’ve never experienced a month in which the global temperature has been colder than average, according to the latest data from the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Scary.
