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Dr. Martin Rundkvist is a Swedish archaeologist, journal editor, public speaker, skeptic, atheist, lefty liberal, bookworm, and father of two.
Category: Space
Stacy L. Mason is an Aard regular and a talented artist. Check out his awesome interpretation of the Swedish tardigrades that are going to Phobos! In other news, I have issues with the lyrics of the Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas...
Posted by Martin R at 2:33 AM • 8 Comments •
Category: Space
Those microdaddies will go to Phobos and back, and then biologists will be able to compare them to their stay-at-home buddies to learn what the environment out there in interplanetary space really does to an Earth creature.
Posted by Martin R at 8:43 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Space
Did you notice something funny about the Google logo yesterday? It was full of falling stars.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Space
These machines were originally meant to work for three months, yet they continue to trundle around that cold, distant planet.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 3 Comments •
Category: Space
Two of my favourite song writers have revealed themselves as astronomy nerds in love songs. Frank Black in "Sir Rockaby" (1994):How many stars girl Can you both count And then classify? I'm standing here in this big swirl Singing this...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 5 Comments •
Category: Space
Jeff Medkeff's friend, co-blogging under the pen-name Iatros Polygenos ("mongrel doctor" if my Greek serves me), offers a detailed account of our friend's last days. Turns out that Jeff died during a trip to England where he was having...
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: History
Extraterrestrials won't be interested in the political details of small parts of Earth's surface over time.
Posted by Martin R at 4:56 PM • 15 Comments •
Category: Space
Here's an ace animated film clip showing how the Phoenix Lander manoeuvered its camera/digger arm to take a picture of the surface under its own belly a few days ago. Gives you a good sense of how the thing looks...
Posted by Martin R at 7:59 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Children
It was a good talk, ranging from abstruse physics to everyday practicalities of life in space.
Posted by Martin R at 3:10 PM • 5 Comments •
Category: Space
It has deployed its solar panels successfully and is transmitting pictures!
Posted by Martin R at 1:47 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Space
They aren't looking for planet-sized objects anymore, they're down to bits of rock and ice a kilometer across.
Posted by Martin R at 8:20 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Space
These machines were originally meant to work for three months, yet they continue to trundle around that cold, distant planet.
Posted by Martin R at 8:50 AM • 6 Comments •
