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New Developments in Space

 
 
grant
17:59 / 15.04.08
The BBC reports that Russia is preparing to send monkeys to Mars.

It involves dosing them with radiation first. Perhaps they will become metahumans. Or metamacaques.

The WWF is perturbed.
 
 
Alex Thoth
13:15 / 02.05.08
I’m genuinely excited about this. If it works, it could go a long way in encouraging us to send a human mission to Mars. (Of course, if all the monkeys die, it could also set us back…hmmm.) I honestly don’t feel too bad about our simian cousins either because if they needed a human volunteer to be baby sat by the monkeys I’d gladly sign up.

Also, speaking of Mars, the Phoenix lander is less than a month away from touchdown. Here's hoping it finds some alien mold or something.
 
 
astrojax69
05:22 / 15.05.08
actually only a few days away - scheduled to touch down on 25 may. what are the odds in the collective 'lith mind - vast as that is - of it finding anything like life? do we really think we'll know when we see it?

exciting times...
 
 
astrojax69
07:06 / 15.05.08
this story gives a bit more of the challenges the lander will face - and what it will get up to when it's there (if it's succesful - less than 50% doesn't augur too well, eh?)
 
 
grant
22:20 / 15.05.08
That's *without* the interference from intelligent Martian cats.
 
  
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