Tag Archives: Mars

Things have come to a sorry state of affairs, you might think, if I’m referencing the BBC’s woeful Horizon series in this blog, but honestly, this one isn’t bad. Or at least the first thirty seconds before I turned off … Continue reading →

I am always loath to link to the Daily Mail, a right-wing scum-bag of a rag known in my circles as “the Dead White Mail”. But sometimes the sheer bloody astonishing holy-fuckmeness of a story in it leaves me with … Continue reading →

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Ha! You caught me out. The Moon’s cool as well. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/09/moon-had-magnetic-field-at-least-a-billion-years-longer-than-thought-study

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-spacex-red-dragon-20170721-story.html Musk has staked his entire fortune on self-driving cars and Mars. Both are money pits and he is beginning to feel the pinch. He wouldn’t expect our sympathy – he’s an entrepreneur, it’s what he does – but I … Continue reading →

Apparently the surface of Mars is covered with a thin layer of propellants called perchlorates. These are toxic to life – meaning, presumably, life as we’ve found so far on earth – but there may still be “life as we know … Continue reading →