Saturday, 13 March 2021

Half March

It is Mother's day in the Morning and we are half way through March 2021, less than a week away from true spring. 

So far this month I have realised that the best source of news is the ones that are publicly funded. Like BBC, ABC and NASA.gov. It's not my role to knock private news companies, but I realized they do put negative content about people to get more readers, the Harry & Meghan Interview made me realize that a bit more. My reaction was to be more interested in the NASA web site. I like the way the NASA web site reconfigures itself to be mobile friendly. A lot of science web sites are not like that.

I was reading the NASA news articles on there and realized that the Perseverance rover on Mars is about the size of my Car. I thought it was a small thing you could pick up with your hands. I also realized that the Curiousity rover from the few years back is still operating, also the Mars insight probe is still collecting data. They learnt that Mars never gets earthquakes that are more than 3.5 on the Richter scale, at least not since 2018. It just shows you don't need to find life to find something amazing. I'm sure those robots will find lots of very interesting things. 

I wonder when the Inginuity drone bot will fly? 


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