Mars: God of War, Eater of Probes

[aesmael]

Nifty post by A.J.S. Rayl at the Planetary Society giving an overview of the ESA's Mars Express. Haven't heard as much about them as NASA's two rovers even though they arrived about the same time but it has been making a lot of interesting discoveries.

I personally am not as enthusiastic about searching specifically about life or water (which apparently defaults to life anyway), although I would be (and have been) appropriately excited when those things are found. I would like it if other discoveries and aspects of exploration could be met with as much interest, but apparently that does not tickle our self-absorption the same way. It frustrates me enormously that apparently the easiest way to get funding is to code a project as somehow searching for life in the wider universe.

Okay, tangential rant over. Go read already. There's pretty pictures! Also the truth about the Face of Mars, revealed! [Tabloid talk! *scrubs self*]

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[lost-angelwings.livejournal.com]

sadly if you ask for money to develop something that can kill billions of ppl, you'll get it :\ But if you ask for money for research you have to throw in the words "life on mars" or "cure for cancer" to get funding :\

I remember back when I worked in medical research, ppl were always joking that you needed to say that what you were doing was somehow tangentally related to a cure for cancer...