Readers may recall when I visited the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum last year and took this photo of the upcoming exhibit for the new Mars Rover “Curiosity”.
It looked pretty neat…and to everyone’s surprise and thrill it actually made it to Mars and is fully operational. But now, there’s a been a new development on Mars…
By the way ,I WANT mars contaminated by earth bacteria,plants and people…as soon as possible
CodeTech says:
September 21, 2012 at 3:08 pm
Normally I’d have been amused. Unfortunately on Tuesday I had to put my 14 year old cat down, so you can understand if it wasn’t bringing out a chuckle.
However, that is clever. I like visual puns. And I don’t think there can ever be enough cat pictures on the internet.
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Sorry about your loss and the loss of others who’ve made similar comments.
That’s a downside of a public forum. We don’t know the people or personal stuff going on with them.
There are a lot of jokes about meeting St. Peter at the Pearly Gate or other such things that are funny. When my Mom and later when my Dad died, I didn’t laugh at them … for awhile. Those who knew me and remembered what was going on didn’t tell those jokes around me.
We don’t have that here. It WAS a funny post.
Laugh later if not now.
As Kenji would say: “So many cats, so few recipes.”
Cat asked “I can has cheezburger ?”, Curiosity couldn’t handle it (would have preferred a hot dog, I suspect…). Result was CATastrophic warming…
Curiosity might be sorry it killed the cat if it accidentally spills water on those little nodules it found and they turn out to be instant Martians: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ED4dQvzPqY
Hilarious! I love the cats dramatic pose. (my wife and I have 5 dramatic cats)
Lost three of our ten cats over about a month and a half, last one was last Friday, all the oldest ones. Including… Well, I could easily write a page, instead I’ll just say he was my favorite, or at least “most willingly tolerated”.
Cartoon was worth a grimace and chuckle. White cat, no fur pattern? On a red-orange planet? Does it normally live at whatever pole has the most ice, and Curiosity caught it out in the open during migration?
*sigh* Cold hard winter coming and down to seven portable heating units. And why does PETA hate the idea of pets so much? They use no electricity and are carbon neutral. And easily recycled!
So THAT’S what happened to Schrodinger’s cat.
Gunga Din, I appreciate your comment… I was not trying to elicit sympathy, just that seeing the picture was a bit of a pang. I actually liked it and have passed it along to others.
I don’t want to make a big deal out of it, she was my friend for years and is now gone, but I’ll be fine. She had a better life with me than she would have on the farm, and as kadaka said, “I could easily write a page”, which I did, elsewhere. Cats are great. The internet needs more cats!
It`s a nuclear-powered tank with a LASER!!
What could possibly go wrong…?
Oh great. Now we have to send up hundreds of rovers to feed the Marsian kitties and open and close the doors for them – at all hours of night and day – plus admit that the planet belongs to them.
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kadaka (KD Knoebel) says:
September 21, 2012 at 9:28 pm
Lost three of our ten cats over about a month and a half, last one was last Friday, all the oldest ones. Including… Well, I could easily write a page, instead I’ll just say he was my favorite, or at least “most willingly tolerated”.
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I sympathize. The big, old, fixed male cat that came w/the house when I bought it was hard to lose, years ago. He was big & confident enough to chase dogs outta the yard….
Two questions instantly entered my mind. Is Curiosity really equipped with a Death Ray? (It is.)
My second question is still unanswered: Who took the picture?
Who took the picture?
Cat’s lawyer..
Jabba is not amused…