Damn, got my hopes up for a minute that I could have a cool circuit-biologic hybrid eye. Maybe even fitted with LASERS and AWESOME! Damn you Giz!

Gah, sorry about the double post.

Needlessly? They bravely gave their lives for the advancement of SCIENCE!

Nope. From the article: "Oh yeah, the only thing making the decisions during the landing is a supercomputer on the hovercraft, which plummets to its electronic end (after flying away from the landing area) once changes in the up-force signal that the rover has touched down."

Ah, but that full quote is better...."All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."

I would say that this article is alarmist like all the other commenters, and why, but they already beat me to it. I would, however, like to raise a few other concerns, chiefly, that the term becquerel is not defined in this article. You say that most people outside of physics are unfamiliar with this term, and I…