…behind the fence, she’s got her own path to follow.

#photos #flowers

NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before

The next rover NASA will send to Mars in 2020 will carry seven carefully-selected instruments to conduct unprecedented science and exploration technology investigations on the Red Planet.

NASA announced the selected Mars 2020 rover instruments Thursday at the agency’s headquarters in Washington. Managers made the selections out of 58 proposals received in January from researchers and engineers worldwide. Proposals received were twice the usual number submitted for instrument competitions in the recent past. This is an indicator of the extraordinary interest by the science community in the exploration of the Mars. The selected proposals have a total value of approximately $130 million for development of the instruments.

The Mars 2020 mission will be based on the design of the highly successful Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, which landed almost two years ago, and currently is operating on Mars. The new rover will carry more sophisticated, upgraded hardware and new instruments to conduct geological assessments of the rover’s landing site, determine the potential habitability of the environment, and directly search for signs of ancient Martian life.

Like never before peeps!

#nasa #cosmos

Why didn’t anybody tell me the Heinz “Spotted Dick” sponge pudding was now microwaveable?

#photos #foodies

We’d All Be Morning People With This Alarm Clock That Brews Coffee

There comes a time in everyone’s life when alarm clocks just don’t get the job done. It doesn’t matter how loud we make them, how many times we hit the snooze button or what kind of vibration pattern our phones are on.

It’s evident that we haven’t found a fully-effective way to wake ourselves up without hating our lives for the first two hours of being awake. I’m sure we can all relate to that!

However, painful awakenings might be coming to an end thanks to this spiffy alarm clock called the “Barisieur.”

As soon as I got my first glimpse, I was all like…

#coffee

Don’t be arrogant unless duty calls.

#protip

Maggie writes, “Why do I have such crazy parents?”

This could be in response to me saying earlier, “the moral of the story is dad freaks out.”

In related news, even earlier we had this brief conversation…

Me: Do you need ten blankets?

Maggie: Yes.

#maggie #photos

Unprepared - Matt Gemmell

We’re all pretending, all the time. Putting on our suits, picking up our car keys, and going forth into the world. Humming the theme from that cartoon we used to watch, and sometimes missing our mothers. We are all unprepared, just as I was for my father’s earnest question.

Every so often my dad will ask my opinion of something but usually it’s trivial, something he could’ve found the answer to himself. I think he does such for conversation and maybe sometimes when he doesn’t want to actually look for the answer himself — nothing wrong with that to me.

I’m mildly curious though, if he’ll ever ask my thoughts on something really big, something monumentally important to him.

In related news, I’ve “never laid claim to adulthood” either.

Maggie and I were laying on her bed last night and her mom remarked that she was almost as long as me. I didn’t know what to say. Often I’m dumbfounded when reality reminds me of my nine years of fatherhood.

#relationships #meanwhile

#animatedGIFs #godzilla

House Votes To Sue President For The First Time In History

House Republicans officially gave Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) their seal of approval on Wednesday to sue President Barack Obama, marking the first time in U.S. history that a chamber of Congress has endorsed a lawsuit against a president. The House adopted the resolution by a vote of 225-201. Five Republicans joined a unanimous Democratic conference to vote against the measure. They were Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Walter Jones (R-NC), Paul Broun (R-GA), Steve Stockman (R-TX) and Scott Garrett (R-NJ).

The lawsuit’s about Obamacare for fuck’s sake.

See also: Obama Dismisses Boehner’s ‘Stunt’ Lawsuit.

#politics

Until yesterday…

If you’re interested in further investigation, the Cinnamon Challenge was apparently a thing.

GloZell’s also performed many similar challenges in her Tina Turner-ish career.

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