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"They seemed amazingly busy. I began to ask myself what they could be. Were they intelligent mechanisms? Such a thing I felt was impossible. Or did a Martian sit within each, ruling, directing, using, much as a man's brain sits and rules in his body? I began to compare the things to human machines, to ask myself for the first time in my life how an iron-clad or a steam engine would seem to an intelligent lower animal." So wrote H.G. Wells in the "War of the Worlds". NASA has announced the discovery of evidence of flowing water on Mars. It matters because it's one more piece of the puzzle as to whether there is or ever was life on Mars. The conspiracy theorists among us are having none of it. They claim it's a lie and they find it strange that the announcement has come just before the release of the new Matt Damon film, "The Martian". I suppose it's of no use to point out that Hollywood has made many films about Mars not to mention all tho...

Space, the final frontier, these are the voyages of the New Horizons spacecraft, her nine and a half year mission to travel three billion miles and provide detailed images of the Dwarf Planet Pluto. She did it, mission control we have success! Are you as excited as I am by this, cause you should be. With only two percent of the imaging in for analysis we already know we were wrong about many things regarding Pluto. It will take approximately sixteen months to receive all of the information New Horizons has transmitted and here's an even more awesome thing, this little craft has already travelled two million miles beyond Pluto. Now, I know Pluto has been a controversial topic, like many of you I grew up with the planet Pluto, then the scientists gobsmacked us with the shocking announcement that it was not a planet but was in fact a new category called Dwarf Planet. I know, I know, it was...disturbing, but we've moved on. This little planet has much to teach us. In a time full...