#August2012
LISTEN: Carl Sagan’s message to future explorers of Mars. Sagan is eternal boss mode.
A few months before he died, Uncle Carl recorded a message to the future explorers of Mars. Admittedly, our dumb asses are still too busy caught up in the usual cycle of consumption and warring to get there quite yet. However, yesterday’s landing of Curiosity was quite the fantastique, and has drummed up as good a time as ever to hear Sagan’s message to the future wanderers.
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NASA’s CURIOSITY rover makes it safely onto Mars. Everyone drink!
I know this is late news in the wunder-deluge that is the internet churn cycle, but fuck it I want to celebrate. NASA’s Curiosity rover has touched down safely on the Red Planet. Fuck yes.
NASA Releases New Picture Of MARS, It’s So Gorgeous I Want To Weep.
No need for words. Drink in this picture. It’s Mars. That’s the planet Mars. Stunning. Oh, all right. NASA provides some context.
NASA Reveals The ORION SPACE CAPSULE. The Sumbitch May Take Us To Mars
NASA has pulled the tarp away covering their new passenger-powered space shuttle thingy sumbitch. Meet the Orion Space Capsule.
Get Your Ass to Mars: The Mars One Project
If you’re anything like me, you’ve contemplated leaving the planet forever rather than deal with 90% of the mouth breathing mall zombies we happen to share this rock with. When you realize that you’re stuck here, you then begin to wonder how easy it would be just to blow the whole damn place up. Well fret no longer because Mars One is coming up with a solution. Hit the jump for some info and your orientation.
[PREVIEW] OMNI: A God-Awful, Small Affair
OL has been given first crack at previewing A God-Awful, Small Affair, the first installment of OMNI from first-time writer Allen Drinkwater (who is, apparently, a friend of this site). After checking out the preview materials and being completely won over by the artwork of Manny Hernaez, I’ve decided to oblige.
Set on the Mars of 2090 CE, this comic follows Detective Farmer Murdock as he attempts to complete his final mission. The catch? The task at hand is to assassinate two of the planet’s most well-respected statesmen. The ensuing tale is filled with violence, rock’n’roll, nefarious secrets, and even a hint of the miraculous.
Hit the hyperspace jump to check out some samples!
Mars Got Itself Some FLOWING SAND DUNES. Picnic Time, IMO.
Now, those sand dunes on Mars aren’t actually flowing like liquid. You’re looking at me incredulously. They aren’t. Believe me. However, I’m not going to fault you for thinking they are.
Mysterious DARK REGIONS OF MARS Are Made Of Glass. Contemplate That Shizz.
10 Million square kilometers of northern lowlands on Mars are made up of glass. Volcanic glass. That fucking planet, man. Keeps paying dividens in awesomeness.
Mars’ TRAVEL POSTERS Make Me Wish For The Impossible
I want to travel to Mars. It ain’t that far away, and depending on your science-fiction author of choice there’s either gold, land, intelligent life, or something equally dope there. Ron Guyatt has put together these travel posters, and they have served to stoke my yearning. I’m ready! for the million-year picnic.
Evidence For WATER Flowing On Surface Of MARS Continues. Spacegasm Ahoy.
The Martian Chronicles was actually a future divined by Rad Bradbury. Such a future will soon come to pass, as evidence for flowing water on the surface of Mars refuses to go away. So say we all! Or something.
