Will it be appropriate to tip “robot handlers,” as when they were “delivery people”? Or will the robots pool their tips, and give their handlers a small cut?
When the wrong yoghurt is delivered two hours late and left dripping in the rain, will it be the robot or the handler who gets fired?
Just askin’.
Saturn in Infrared from Cassini
Cometary Globules
People forget that “within the habitable zone” means habitable for us and ‘life as we know it.’
Being that we are completely unfamiliar with life and science outside of what we’ve encountered, it is entirely possible for 'life as we don’t yet know it’ to exist outside of what we personally consider a habitable zone.
Jupiter as seen by six different spacecraft.
NASA / JPL / SSI / JHUAPL / SwRI / Björn Jónsson
European Spacecraft Pulls Alongside Comet “After 10 years and a journey of four billion miles, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft arrived at its destination on Wednesday for the first extended, close examination of a comet. A six-minute thruster firing at 5 a.m. Eastern time, the last in a series of 10 over the past few months, slowed Rosetta to the pace of a person walking, about two miles per hour relative to the speed of its target, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.”
Find out more from the nytimes.
4 hour star trails timelapse at Point Reyes
Comet PanSTARRS
Gorgeous picture of Comet PanSTARRS taken by Carl Gruber on March 2, 2013 at a mountain lookout in Melbourne.
Cameras, cameras, and more cameras. Cameras!