Stranger in a Strange Land
Last night, the Mars Surface Laboratory successfully completed the “seven minutes of terror” – the computer controlled descent from hurtling through space to placing a 1-ton mobile laboratory on the surface of Mars. Given the distance, all the folks at JPL and NASA could do is essentially watch the results seven-plus minutes after the fact. Check out the landing from JPL’s perspective:
Pretty darn amazing. For those unaware of the technical feat, watch this video to see what they accomplished:
Hopefully the next images aren’t some big, transforming robot crushing the lab, otherwise, someone is going to need to call up Jon Voigt.
GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.