Going out on a limb here, but this really shouldn't come out of vacation time: It involves fancy technology, LEDs, topless wo.. - oh, scratch that, but, yes, Arduino was mentioned, and a zipper lift. Combine this with solidly researched background information, an illustrative video, and you have a captivating story.…

Yes, and touchscreen laptops are nonsense from an ergonomic standpoint: You have to keep your arm stretched out horizontally in order to do something on the screen. It is fatiguing, and you can do it only so long before you want to rest your arm (and use the touchpad). Touchscreen only makes real sense on tablets, in…

Problem is that almost every kid in this country wants to be a 'movie star', 'sport celebrity', and become 'famous', instead of sitting down and learn the hard stuff. Or so it seems to me.

It must be a DFG chip then. Yes, Distortion Field Generator.

Mars has, as far as I know, a very thin atmosphere, and has winds that stir up dust - that makes the difference.

While that R4 in the picture sure was EMP proof, it rusted away like nothing else. Maybe an EMP would have stopped that process...

Oh, come on, get on your fixie already and bike back to your media consulting office!

It could be worse - they could have made a 'Space Odyssee 2001 Detour'.

Doesn't work - look at China: they will have a huge problem with a skewed age distribution (=aging population) in the next 10-20 years.

To me, the stars in the opening sequence don't look real - their luminance doesn't seem to modulate with the clouds/haze. I'm often wondering how you get those brilliant night sky views in the time lapses - you need to keep the shutter open for quite a while to get a view of the milky way, and then everything else is…

Can you explain? How long is each exposure? I'm always wondering about those impeccable star views in those time lapses, and assume that there's trickery/fakery involved. From my experience, if you want to photograph the night sky, you've got to open the shutter at least 10-30 secs (let's assume ISO 400), but then of…

That filigree red nebula in this myriad of (white) stars - somehow puts it in relation how huge this system is.

I'm surprised you can keep your camera that long in LA.

Au contraire - upforce is what we need!

5 million? 5000 years at max, at least that's what they say over in Indiana!

To use Woody Allen's words, death is in general a terrible inconvenience.

As far as I know, much of that itching sensation comes from the proteins injected by the critters to impair blood coagulation (so they can suck unhindered). Proteins, in turn, can be coagulated by heat, and made inactive.

Ok, I meant the bricks with the airspaces (see picture), which again, of course, trap air and provide insulation; put those up two rows deep, and you get a cosy home in winter. Yeah, solid bricks would get cold! The problem I see with those extremely well insulated wood houses is that they do indeed 'trap' the air…

Guess it's ok to wear these in SF. Testing this in the Midwest would be...

Congrats! How did you make sure that the sky crane would not drop the rover on a big boulder, or, e.g., with one wheel on a big boulder, tilted, and horribly un-recoverable? Did the sky crane scan the terrain, using pattern recognition?