@jshoer: Any time... It definitely eliminates the hassle of trying to get a RTG powered probe that can melt through miles of ice in any reasonable amount of time before it's surface base station gets fried from the heavy radiation... I especially like the use of airbags, and the use of multiple drop probes with an…

@Dunny0: Agreed.

I actually had the Alien costume... I wanted to scare the crap out of my little brother several weeks before Halloween, and I ended up destroying the mask...

@Badlands99: So true...

Creative solution Joseph. "Simple but effective"... the engineer's best friend.

@cjudge82: Agreed... I plan to find a healthy balance between ebooks and physical ones. I just can't give up a good book...

Although I will agree it's kind of a primitive trick... but from 3:46 onward, the images are quite mesmerizing...

Titan just keeps getting weirder and weirder, the more we learn...

@ps61318: I think it might be built as a fixie, purely to simplify the drive-train perhaps? Who knows... I like the design and implementation, but yeah, I'd kind of like to free wheel down that huge hill in Valley Forge.

@Starlionblue: Exactly!

@Starlionblue: Ah... I wonder what the Scots think of this?

"Minimizing violence...?" Guys, the cyborgs are called Terminators, not Scolders or Pussy-whippers

I started reading Atlas Shrugged as a requirement for writing an essay, to apply to rather nice chunk of change being offered as a scholarship for librarians earning their Masters.... Objectivism fantasy wasn't worth spending my time slogging through, much less trying to come up with an original interpretation of.…

@Klebert L. Hall: True, it was total cheese, but my 1o year old mind really latched on to it's post apocalyptic vibe.

My first RPG.... The damned Albuquerque spaceport buried in the dunes...

@ho0lee0h: Me too. I keep entertaining applying this idea to our next living space... but sticking halfway out of a shallow closet might drive be a little batty.

Carrots and sticks... love it.

@ThisDudeRufus: NASA gets a PayPal account?... Brilliant!

Crap, and just when I thought I'd gotten the dim memory of that out of my head from decades ago...

@♠ Final ♠: I feel ya Final... I wish I didn't, but you ring true.