/F/i/v/e/ Four Geeky Things for an August Morning

[scarlettina]

1) Readercon has overturned the decision to ban harasser Rene Walling for only two years and has instead banned him for life, as they should have done to begin with. Their announcement and apology is professional, thorough, and completely appropriate, and my respect for the concom is enormous.

2) Last night, NASA successfully landed a rover the

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[oldmangrumpus]

"I have a cat who hates the Sun!"

[mabfan]

The fifth thing could be about the Olympics, or Hiroshima.

[scarlettina]

Fifth thing: Neil deGrasse Tyson Interviews Curiosity.

[mabfan]

A good choice.

[prettyshrub]

Geek Girl Con is next weekend:

http://www.geekgirlcon.com/

[redaxe]

Let's also not forget that Opportunity was designed for a short-term mission (I forget if it was supposed to be 90 days or 180). Go, girl!

Remembering one of those rovers

[the_same_andrew]

I recall when one of those Mars rovers was sending Breathtaking Video Footage back to earth, some CNN reporter stuck a microphone in the face of some organizer at an sf con someplace, and asked them what they thought of it.

The poor sod essentially froze (god only knows what the interview was supposed to have been about in the first place) and said, essentially, Yeah, everybody here's pretty happy about it!

Pretty happy, how ever many years on. I don't have cable any more.