News and Commentary on Space
A little self-fluffing from ESA on the 30th anniversary of its inception.
(Funny, I would have sworn there were more than just three exclamation points in that piece. Must be the breathless excitement shining through in the text itself.)
I’m having trouble deciding whether Bruce is making a clumsy attempt at a joke, or is really as disconnected as this makes him sound:
Even though Lucas says it is his last Star Wars film, the ending was a set up for another one for sure. The dark side wins but two babies are born and the Jedi’s will raise them to fight the dark side. They are the children of Darth Vader so here we go again.
It’s quite an indictment of someone’s views when you honestly can’t tell whether they’re playing dumb.
And speaking of being predictable, I knew before reading it that any Sith review from Bruce Gagnon would include something like the following:
Redeeming moments? One when Darth Vader says “You are either with me or against me” Reminds folks of George W. Bush.
Such wit!
I imagine that being eighteen and having an asteroid named after you would be a powerful incentive to succeed:
An asteroid flying several thousand miles away from Earth, currently located between Mars and Jupiter, has been named after 18-yearold Mumbaikar Bhushan Mahadik.The asteroid was christened after him by the prestigious Lincoln Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, which has played a key role in the development of space technology…
The laboratory named the asteroid after Bhushan in recognition of his achievement as a finalist in the 2003 Intel International Science Engineering Fare held in Ohio in 2003. The focus of his research was ‘synthesis of carbon nanotubes’.
Bhushan passed out of Father Agnel Junior College, Navi Mumbai, in 2004. Now, he is doing his undergraduate studies in chemical engineering at the University of California in Berkley.
Or continue succeeding, in this case. (“Synthesis of carbon nanotubes”??? That’s an impressive science fair project, but then science fairs just ain’t what they used to be.)
But what the heck is this all about?
He was selected by Isro and Nasa to participate in the ‘Red Rovers Goes to Mars’ programme in 2002. At Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Bhushan was trained to operate the Martian rovers in a simulated environment. Mars Society president Robert Zubrin has allotted Bhushan an acre of land on the Red Planet.
How generous!
Over at The Space Review, Dwayne Day reviews what I want for my birthday.
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A young girl sets out to prove herself by resolving a long-forgotten mystery. But when she gets close to the truth, what she thought was a harmless adventure becomes a threat to the future of the independent commercial settlements on Mars.
