Less Curiouser and Less Curiouser

The US spent $2.5 billion sending an amazing robotic explorer to Mars and has now shut it down for no good reason. And what bad reason do they have for shutting it down? Well, as far as I can tell they shut the Curiosity rover down because they don't want black people to have health care. No, I don't understand it either. As far as I am aware the mars rover was not giving medical treatment to black people on mars.

UPDATE: They didn't actually shut down the Curiosity rover.  I mention this fact despite the fact that it is a fact and we appear to have moved beyond such petty considerations as a society.

Slightly Closer to Infinity and Then Beyond

Why haven't we been back to the moon?  The answer is simple.  Because we only stopped to pay attention when Neil Armstrong died and not when Peter Conrad, Alan Shepard, and James Irwin died.  We don't care about third, fifth and eighth place.

Curious and Curiouser

Mars, We're Just Probing You Because of Curiosity.

Well, we've got roughly a day before we find out if the most complex robotic instrumentation package ever sent to mars, one that's every bit as good as an astronaut except for sex fantasies (most people's sex fantasies), can prise away a minute or two of the developed world's attention from the olympics.