I woke up yesterday to the news that NASA had officially declared Opportunity to be dead, which has made me sadder than I expected. I was working in the aerospace industry when Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars back in
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My thoughts and prayers are with Japan today. Here are some options for helping them. Space/Science Secret Space Shuttle Blasts Off for Second Mission Alien Microbe Claim Starts Fight Over Meteorite Solving the Mystery of the Most Violent Event in
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Science/Space Pictures of Discovery Approaching the ISS Henry Morgan’s Cannons Found in Panama (Yay, pirates!) Picture of Discovery docking with the ISS taken from Earth! Scifi/Fantasy 2010 Stoker Nominees Review of Elizabeth Bear’s Grail Review of The Best Science Fiction
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Space/Science The Extraordinary Face of the Moon Picture of Discovery on the Launch Pad Interactive James Webb Telescope (launches in 2014) Photos of Discovery Launch Sotheby’s to Auction 1961 Soviet Capsule Scifi/Fantasy Endurance wallpapers Locus Magazine Recommends Some of Tor’s
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Science/Space Symphony of Science Earliest Photos of Universe Yet Possible Previously Unknown Gas Giant in Our Solar System Scifi/Fantasy Literary Crushes Book Cover Smackdown How to Tell if You’re Going to Get the Girl Misc Books Books of Love Letters
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Space/Science Private Company to put Robot on Moon (For some reason, this sounds like a terrible idea to me. Sounds like a good way to leave trash everywhere and mess up scientific missions.) Last Rollout of Space Shuttle Discovery (video) Recycling
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Space/Science Nabokov’s Butterfly Theory Proved Correct NASA spots 54 Potential Life-Friendly Planets Scifi/Fantasy io9’s February Scifi/Fantasy Calendar 12 Revolutionary Uprisings in Scifi 10 Greatest Starships of All Time Utopianism in Steampunk February Fantasy Book Releases Free Read: Chenoire by Suzanne
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Thank Landsquid it’s Friday, amirite? Space/Science Extreme Planet Makeover (Might be fun for world-building scifi/off-world fantasy) Some confusion over the existence of the Triceratops First One-Fingered Dinosaur Found (It is apparently Dinosaur Week. But that’s okay, because dinosaurs are awesome.) Picture of how
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Space/Science Discovery Astronaut Hurt in Bike Accident (Poor shuttle astronauts. They are having a bad month.) Darkness on the Edge of the Universe First Mammoth Cloning Experiment Officially Underway (Poor mammoths. They are going to look around and wish they’d just been
Friday Round-Up
I’m moving the round-up to Friday this month as I’m trying out a new posting schedule. Let me know if you prefer Thursday or Friday. I work on the round-ups all week long, so it doesn’t much matter to me
