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Syd Lieberman: Twelve Wheels on Mars

The website of Syd Lieberman, who NASA commissioned to write the story of the Mars Exploration Rovers, is impressive.

NASA Centers

JPL is the star of NASA. Other than manned spaceflight, what do the other centers do? Yet 2/3 of NASA’s budget goes into manned spaceflight. Robotic missions are way cool, the technology is revolutionary, and we could do so much more. In the words of someone here: “NASA’s insane.”

Stress

Copying with stress, according to NASA.

Chicken nuggets at USC

USC chicken nuggets, reported by the LA Times

Dear aunt, let’s set so double the killer delete select all

Watch this Google video from yesterday on Microsoft’s new voice recognition software. One of the funniest things I’ve seen in a while. “Dear aunt, let’s set so double the killer delete select all.” It’s drawing a lot of comparisons with All your base are belong to us, which is also what I thought it sounded…Continue Reading…

World’s First Hard Drive

The 50th anniversary of hard-disk storage is coming up in a little over a month. On Sept. 13, 1956, IBM shipped the first hard disk drive. It was the size of two refrigerators, weighed a ton, stored 5 megabytes on 50 spinning iron-oxide-coated disks– and cost $250,000 a year in today’s dollars to lease. Newsweek