And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, November 21, 2018
NASA's InSight Lander is about to put itself on the Red Planet.
Here's an overview of the atmospheric entry and landing, as it's expected to be done.
I always wonder if the scientists are making a mistake looking for life as we know it to exist here on Earth. On different planets, with very different environments, why couldn't life adapt itself into some form very different than what we have here on our own planet?
This is all wonderful, but I will always miss skating on the frozen canals of Mars as Heinlein envisaged.
ReplyDeleteWe still have no proof of any life anywhere but Earth, so it would be tremendously exciting if that were discovered!
I always wonder if the scientists are making a mistake looking for life as we know it to exist here on Earth. On different planets, with very different environments, why couldn't life adapt itself into some form very different than what we have here on our own planet?
ReplyDeleteWe won't really know until astronauts land and are somehow immediately transformed into zombies.
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