Quoted: Since the rover is already on Mars and it’s solar powered why does it cost $4 million a year to operate? I’m not doubting it does I just don’t know how projects like this work. Is most of it tied up in the salaries of the scientists working on the project, the computer systems used to analyze the data, or what?

Awesome. We now know the age of the universe with pretty good accuracy.

Quoted: TED Talks <a href="/speakers/view/id/129" target="_blank">Stephen Petranek</a> reveals the question that occupies scientists at the end of the day (and the beginning of happy hour): How might the world end? He lays out the challenges that face us in the drive to preserve the human race. Will we be wiped out by an asteroid? Eco-collapse? How about a particle accelerator gone wild?

Quoted: Scientists have discovered a warm and rocky "second Earth" circling a star, a find they believe dramatically boosts the prospects that we are not alone.

Quoted: Relying on plates made from a special ceramic material containing chromium (which absorbs the sunlight) and neodymium (which efficiently converts sunlight to laser light), the newly developed lasers demonstrated an impressive 42% solar-to-laser energy conversion efficiency, outperforming previous technology by a factor of four.

Hooray! they are still working!

Quoted: rover dust storm update

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crazy, in zero gravity something as small as a cd player can act as a gyroscope

Quoted: English: Discman zero gravity.

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Quoted: Zero gravity water bubble and Alka Seltzer experiment