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Bespoke martian watches keep 24h, 39m
day

Bespoke martian watches keep 24h, 39m
day 01/09/2004 09:56 PM
Researchers working on the Mars lander are rising and sleeping on Martian Standard Time, the daylight hours on the lander's plot of Mars. The martian day is 24h, 39m long -- which means that the rover crew had to get custom-made timepieces (for "had to," here, read, "thought it would be really cool to") manufactured for them by a master watchmaker.

My next novel, Eastern Standard Tribe, (due out in just a few weeks!) revolves around the way that your sleep schedule determines a lot about your social circle and hence your beliefs, alliegances, and so forth. A friend of mine in DC who used to work for the CIA just read the book and wrote to point out that the military has been running timezone-tribes for years, so that all the people commanding and supporting some distant operational unit are rising and sleeping on a schedule synched with daylight hours in some far corner.

But I bet they don't get cool watches like this one -- someone should manufacture and sell 'em. My sleep-schedule is so scr0d that I would happily wear this thing and abide by what it told me about my circadian. Link (via MeFi)

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Sailing the Martian Sea

Sailing the Martian Sea 03/22/2005 03:36 PM

The Mars Rovers have exceeded all expectations during their time exploring the surface of the red planet. However, there is other Martian exploration and research going on. The European Space Agency probe Mars Express has sent back new data which indicates that there may be a frozen sea under the surface of Mars.

Images taken of the Elysium region near the equator show a region that some believe is a large frozen sea, just below the surface of the planet. The team at the ESA believe that the area, around the size of the UK’s North Sea, contains water that is covered in a layer of volcanic ash that prevents the frozen ice form sublimating in the thin Martian atmosphere.

After reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series, which covered a the colonization and terraforming of the red planet, I find the news that there large amounts of ice on Mars to be fascinating. Maybe some day we'll get there.

AI to help Martian exploration

AI to help Martian exploration 02/10/2004 02:55 AM
Scientists are developing a wearable computer running 'intelligent' software to help humans explore Mars.

Missing Martian Water

Missing Martian Water 06/14/2004 09:32 PM
Where might the water they are seeking on Mars have gone?

New Martian Meteorite Recovered

New Martian Meteorite Recovered 07/23/2004 02:49 AM

Hunter’s Martian Eyes

Hunter’s Martian Eyes 01/16/2004 10:56 AM
In Barry Lopez’ Arctic Dreams (a beautiful and wise book) he laments the passage of the special relationship between the hunter and the landscape; A hunter—a real hunts-to-live hunter, not a plaid-clad suburbanite gun nut—has to as a matter of life or death study his surroundings with great care. I quote: “But the meticulous inspection of the land that is the mark of a good hunter becomes most evident when he uses a pair of good field glasses. Long after the most inquiring nonnative has has grown weary of glassing the land for some clue to the movement of animals, a hunter is still scouring its edges and interstices. He may take an hour to glass 360° of the apparently silent tundra, one section at a time.” In that spirit, go visit the very good Quicktime VR panorama of the Martian Surface, set the scene into a slow, slow drift (it’s easy with a trackpad), cultivate that hunter’s eye, and spend a half-hour looking at the horizon, and the sand, and the stones.

The Martian meteorite re-examined

The Martian meteorite re-examined 02/10/2004 02:57 AM
Two Australian scientists have developed a new process for examining the controversial Martian meteorite, a stone retrieved from Antarctic ice samples several years ago. This stone shows signs of having been formed on the fourth planet from the sun, and kicked free of Mars' gravity by a tremendous surface impact, causing it to drift through space and eventually fall to Earth. It is believed by some to contain fossilised traces of simple single-celled organisms. These scientists claim their process proves beyond any doubt that those traces are genuine: the meteorite contains evidence of primitive life on Mars many millions of years ago.

The Martian NetDrive Wireless

The Martian NetDrive Wireless 03/13/2003 10:15 AM

The Martian NetDrive Wireless: 40 gigabytes of small, silent, 802.11b filesharing

How Is a Martian Rover Like a Bear?

How Is a Martian Rover Like a Bear? 08/10/2004 03:32 AM
With winter bearing down on the southern hemisphere of Mars, it's time for the two robotic rovers there to be going into a kind of hibernation.

Martian Aurora Is One of a Kind

Martian Aurora Is One of a Kind 06/17/2005 03:48 PM

NASA's Martian Standard Tribe

NASA's Martian Standard Tribe 01/05/2004 01:36 PM
NASA scientists working on the Mars rover have adopted a Martian sleep-schedule so that they can be awake and working during Mars daylight. Not exactly Eastern Standard Tribe, but not far off, either. Link (Thanks, Paul)

Opportunity Zooms In on Martian Bedrock

Opportunity Zooms In on Martian Bedrock 02/11/2004 01:11 AM

ESA Aiming for Martian Probe in 2011

ESA Aiming for Martian Probe in 2011 04/10/2005 09:39 PM

Video of Martian lunar eclipse

Video of Martian lunar eclipse 03/23/2005 01:19 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Here's something no human, save John Carter, has ever seen before: a Martian lunar eclipse. The tiny video shot by one of the Mars rovers captured Deimos zipping past the face of the sun.
Link (Thanks, Bram!)

Colder than a martian witch's teet

Colder than a martian witch's teet 01/27/2004 10:58 PM

Daaaaaamn: N ortheast colder than Mars. They're using the best possible conditions on Mars (midday, late summer) vs. the worst on Earth (night, dead of winter cold snap), but at the exact same time in both places it was warmer on Mars than it was in New England.

Utah microbes may have Martian mirror

Utah microbes may have Martian mirror 05/18/2004 04:07 PM
Scientists probe the hostile waters of Utah's Great Salt Lake to catalogue the micro-organisms that may give clues about life on Mars.

Sexy martian game-controller

Sexy martian game-controller 03/08/2004 11:03 PM
The Nostromo is a new programmable game-controller from Belkin, with over 100 configurable key-combos and a sweet configurator. The rad, (useful-for-the-right-handed-only) alien appearance is allegedly ergonomically optmized for twitch-gaming and the Tom's Hardware reviewer says that it's also a pretty good paintmonkey's Photoshop-controller. Man, this thing is teh s3xy. Link (via Wonderland)

Martian Rock Found In Morocco

Martian Rock Found In Morocco 01/22/2004 02:58 AM

Rovers May Survive Martian Winter

Rovers May Survive Martian Winter 06/09/2004 05:42 AM

Martian explorer marks first year

Martian explorer marks first year 01/04/2005 04:56 AM
US space agency Nasa celebrates the first year on Mars of its Spirit robot rover vehicle.

NASA celebrates martian Spirit of
adventure

NASA celebrates martian Spirit of
adventure 01/05/2005 11:46 AM
Rover's first anniversary

Tumbleweed Rover for Marathon Martian
Journeys

Tumbleweed Rover for Marathon Martian
Journeys 03/06/2004 02:04 AM
Slashdot Mar 5 2004 9:05PM GMT

New Martian Meteorite Found in
Antarctica (Reuters)

New Martian Meteorite Found in
Antarctica (Reuters) 07/22/2004 09:31 AM
Reuters - A meteorite from Mars has been discovered in Antarctica, one of only about 30 known Martian space rocks on Earth.

Dust devils spring clean Martian rover

Dust devils spring clean Martian rover 03/17/2005 03:38 AM
Power boost and atmosperic science all in one

Spirit Findings Provide More Evidence of
Martian Water

Spirit Findings Provide More Evidence of
Martian Water 03/09/2004 01:40 AM

Spirit Moves to Investigate Composition
of Martian Rock

Spirit Moves to Investigate Composition
of Martian Rock 01/22/2004 03:20 AM
After flexing its mechanical arm and finding some puzzling chemistry in a patch of Martian soil, the robotic rover Spirit began investigating the composition of a rock named Adirondack.

Who WATCHES movies?

Who WATCHES movies? 09/09/2004 07:19 AM
Cory Doctorow: The sterling satirists of Loading Ready Run have produced a sharp, funny and amazingly true short film in response to the "Who makes movies?" anti-piracy spots that we're subjected to before we see our $10-13 flicks.

This spot, called "Who watches movies?" and features a graphic designer talking about how grossly offensive it is to pay a stack of money, sit through interminable advertisements, then be lectured at in a film made by some distant coked-up Hollyweird fatcat. 4.4MB MP4 Link (Thanks, Paul!)

The first five SPOT watches

The first five SPOT watches 01/02/2004 05:00 PM
There's a listing on Microsoft's website of the five different SPOT, or Smart Personal Object Technology, watches which are supposed to hit stores soon. As...

Marvin the Martian secretly etched on
Mars Lander chips

Marvin the Martian secretly etched on
Mars Lander chips 02/10/2004 02:51 AM
Trademark-infringing images of Marvin the Martian were secretly etched into the Mars rovers' image-sensor chips.

We managed to capture a photograph of what are now perhaps the tiniest Martians on Mars. Appearing as an opposed duet of helmeted gladiators, these angry silicon soldiers were discovered on the surface of an image sensor used by the Spirit and Opportunity rovers sent to probe the Red planet. Maybe these are the ONLY Martians on Mars? Probably not. In any event, the chip was loaned to us by designer Mark Wadsworth who is a fan of the Silicon Zoo. Mark informs us that he decided to try his hand at silicon artwork after visiting the Zoo on several occasions. The title of his artwork is the "Dueling Marvin the Martians". Mark designed the image sensor for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory along with Tom Elliot, who actually did the testing of the flight candidate imagers to select the 20 or so that actually made it on the two missions. Tom and Mark tended to butt heads quite a bit, which was the inspiration for the doodle.

Link (via Fark)

Retro Nintendo Watches

Retro Nintendo Watches 06/06/2005 12:09 AM

Some of my favorite childhood memories involved these big jars of tamales that my dad would buy and that I'd make and eat in bulk coupled with a few minutes of LCD gaming goodness on my old Pac Man watch. As a result, I was a pretty fat kid. Well, I can relive those artery clogging days with these retro watches feature 'tenda favorites like Donkey Kong, Zelda, and G.I. Joe (?). As a rule, these things last about five days before something cracks and then you're out of luck, but it's nice to recapture those low-fi days of yore in these trying times.

Plus, we like anything that shows a little pale belly skin.

Retro Nintendo watches with playable games [T3]

Evergreen MP3 Watches For Couples

Evergreen MP3 Watches For Couples 04/15/2005 09:58 AM

Evergreen's new "EG-MPW256CII" offers absolutely nothing over previous MP3 watches, except for perhaps style. Whether or not you determine the style of the watch to be appealing is unrelated. Evergreen offers blue and pink versions of the watch "intended for couples." It will play audio from its 256MB of internal memory for about 10 hours. Let's hope Evergreen was smart enough to give it a second battery for keeping the time.

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Big Brother watches Britain

Big Brother watches Britain 09/01/2004 09:13 PM

ADV:MSN Direct for Computer Watches

ADV:MSN Direct for Computer Watches 12/19/2004 02:54 PM
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IT industry watches Iowa

IT industry watches Iowa 01/19/2004 07:17 AM
ZDNet Jan 19 2004 12:01PM GMT

Watches watch pilots

Watches watch pilots 06/30/2004 12:56 PM
globetechnology.com Jun 30 2004 5:37PM GMT

Jack Watches Your Back

Jack Watches Your Back 05/17/2004 01:34 PM
Jack Chick's tract has become inflamed by homosexuals. "I believe the time will soon come when godless judges will close churches that call being gay a sin." (05-16)

Microsoft Spot watches delayed

Microsoft Spot watches delayed 11/17/2003 06:55 AM
The Register Nov 17 2003 6:31AM ET
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