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Hi Bob. I have a cool evening pause for you.
The Eurovision Song Contest is a yearly event where each country has nominated a musical performance to a final pan-European vote. Now the new European country The Islamic State will participate with ABBU from their province Sweden. The melody is taken from a gay band of the 1980s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEzDD0dZU8U
“Taken from the Israeli comedy show ‘Eretz Nehederet’.”
The last Karman lecture was great, I recommend it to us who are nerdy about these things. By Williford who is deputy science manager of Mars 2020. With such intelligence and presence and intensity in charge, I think this looks very good. Finally I got an explanation for the dropping off of sample tubes, and I’ve watched a whole conference about this issue without getting the point at all. Some bad ideas about this have been proposed. But the samples will be dropped all in the same location, in order to allow for the rover to then risk going into inaccessible terrain. Suddenly it sounds rational. And he also explains why it isn’t possible to send the many tons heavy and complex and maintenance intensive lab equipment needed to detect life, to Mars.
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/109855482
This Mars rover is a Rube Goldberg machine. But I suppose that it has to be, because Mars isn’t our ordinary back yard. Yet.