Month: March 2013

  • Mars Rover

    Going through a stack of old papers, I found the above. It’s quite exciting suddenly remembering that you had your name inscribed on a chip that was built into the Mars Curiosity Rover, along with 1.2m other people, and that the Rover now sits on Mars, as indeed it has done since August 6 last…

  • Some New TV Notes and Thoughts!

    Why have one Meteor “quick turnaround” documentary tonight when you can have two? Yes, both BBC Two and Channel 4 have decided that there’s enough footage from Russian dashcams to fill an hour explaining to viewers what meteors are. Now I’ve seen neither of these programmes at time of writing, and I’m sure they’re both…