Clip art from Microsoft Sometimes I’m ashamed of how poorly I pay attention to big events – especially the cool scientific ones. This morning was such a day. “How in the world did I miss the fact that a new land rover, landed on Mars?” I asked myself. I had to learn about it from my 15 year old cousin’s Facebook status! I guess in my defense, I could claim ignorance as a result of the Olympics – which, by the way, have taken over my life these past few weeks. When I got the chance, I looked up this new land rover - Curiosity. And I have to say, I felt immediate geek crush, so much so, that I’m not following it on Facebook , and I kind of want a miniature replica for my desk (I looked it up, Hot Wheels is going to be making one). But, I think what I really dig about it, is it reminds me of Number 5 – who growing up in the 80’s didn’t get a kick out of Short Circuit? What is awesome about Curiosity is the Mars Science Laboratory that NAS...
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