Mars
At 2350hrs tonight Mars will be 56 million kilometres away.
As I’m sure you’re heard, it will be the closest it’s been in around 60,000 years, and the closest it will be for about another 60,000.
What was it like back then, to look up and see this glittering red light? What did the neanderthals think it was? Were they scared?
What will it be like in the future? Will there be humans to witness it? Will there be some other creatures with technology?
Sometimes, when you think of the details, the immensity of Time and the Universe makes you sit back and go “Whoa.”
![[del.icio.us]](http://www.kozaru.net/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/delicious.png)
![[Digg]](http://www.kozaru.net/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/digg.png)
![[Google]](http://www.kozaru.net/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/google.png)
![[LinkedIn]](http://www.kozaru.net/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/linkedin.png)
![[StumbleUpon]](http://www.kozaru.net/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/stumbleupon.png)
![[Windows Live]](http://www.kozaru.net/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/windowslive.png)
![[Yahoo!]](http://www.kozaru.net/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/yahoo.png)
![[Email]](http://www.kozaru.net/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/email.png)
That’s no moon!
I followed a link from Avocadia to a site about Hoo-ya (http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s930305.htm). It shows a picture (below) of one of Saturn’s moons, Mimas.
Does anybody else think that it’s suspiciously Death Star shaped?
Games in the Real World
I visited the SOCOM site today. Up pops a window offering new SOCOM TV ads. The first shows a guy walking down a street, then running to cover behind a bin. A guy jumps from the flowerbed in a ghillie suit and lays smoke grenades, while a soldier ziplines from a blackhawk. All on the street.
It then cuts to the guy playing the game. The second ad just gets silly.
When the local shopping centre opened up its new half, it was the time Rainbow 6/Rogue Spear were out. I took great delight in planning the shopping trip on the large floorplan coles had put just inside their front door.
Last shopping trip, it was all I could do to resist making the hand-gestures from SOCOM. A chopping motion from my shoulder directly out in front of me meant “Attack to dairy case.”
A palm-down, patting gesture at the hip meant “Hold position, choccy bikkies present.”
You get the idea.
Here are some samples of hand signals.
Jedes wünschen Bier?
Ich bin der stolze Inhaber eines 1-Liter-Bierstein.
Es kam mit einem 6-pack des deutschen Importes bier.
Das einzige Problem mit einem 1-Liter-beerstein, ist daß alles kleiner, das 3 Flaschen und es leer schauen und fordert Sie auf, es wieder zu füllen.
Erhielt, sie zu lieben Germanians.