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The Tragic Diary of a Lunar Rover, and Other News
By
Dan Piepenbring
January 30, 2014
On the Shelf
From a NASA presentation slide, 1963. Image via Wikimedia Commons
“My masters discovered something abnormal with my mechanical control system … I might not survive this lunar night … I am not fearful … Goodnight, Earth … Goodnight, humanity.” In the heartrending tradition of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,”
a Chinese lunar rover has live-blogged its own death
.
Meanwhile, in Russia,
a man was stabbed to death
for having declared, to a very fervid admirer of verse, that “the only real literature is prose.”
There now exists
a digital version of the Gough map
, “one of the earliest maps to show Britain in a geographically recognizable form.” It dates between 1355 and 1366, when roads were a novelty. (Not that they aren’t today.)
If you’d planned on watching the Super Bowl “just for the ads,” you might be able to skip the game entirely:
you can watch many of the ads ahead of time
, because Capitalism Cares™. Now get out there and shop!
Under the cobblestones, the beach. Under Versailles,
some magnificent subterranean reservoirs
.
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