that's some amazing footage right there

this is the best all encompassing david eagleman podcast/lecture ive found. its like 90 minutes and touches on a lot of the things he's focused on and written about.

http://events.lapl.org/podcasts/Podcast ... px?pid=554

If any of you have clear skies tonight, it'd be worth going to a remote area and looking north to see if you could see the northern lights. They're as active as they've ever been since I first started following them 3 years ago.

Here's a good website to look at to see if it's active enough to see in your area: http://www.softservenews.com/Aurora.htm

Basically, just follow the numbers and look up what you would need to their little map to see it. You would need to get out of any light pollution, though.

looks like we'd need an 8 or 9 for SE PA viewing. Tonite is a 7.

it changes like every 20 minutes.

The whole process of this rover landing on mars is pretty captivating.

Not sure if this is science or mindblown or random, but legs....how do they work?

http://www.foddy.net/Athletics.html

I cant recommend this Eagleman article enough. Especially with the Sandusky/Colorado shootings thing in the news recently

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/pri ... rial/8520/

MRO capturing the Curiosity landing. wow.

looks like something out of 1952

Except for the fact that it contains a skycrane which is depositing a robot the size of a small car and that shoots 1,000,000 megawatt lasers everywhere, yeah... it does

Ok. 1956 then.

Models of the three generations of Mars rovers.

That bad boy on the left has been going for 8 years strong. Amazing.

Maybe there's a life form on mars that we can't see but they can see us and our bot is blasting them with that gigawatt laser and they're all like "AHHHH WE'RE BEING ATTACKED" and we start a real war of the worlds

The Martians will think that people from Earth all have 6 round feet, a long skinny neck, and square heads.

smitty wrote:Ok. 1956 then.

this made me laugh

Monkeyboy wrote:

smitty wrote:Ok. 1956 then.

this made me laugh

Yeah, I gotta say that smitty has been bringing it lately.