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With the launch of two very ambitious missions, this month should have been incredibly exciting for the future of Mars exploration. Unfortunately, while Curiosity started its journey without problems, Phobos-Grunt failed to do so and is now very likely to fall back to Earth. Even worse, its fuel tanks are filled with several tons of […]

It’s always “fun” to try to piece together where the fuck I was after a failed “trip” through the city, but this time it was actually surprisingly easy to make a map. So now I’ll just tell you exactly what happened yesterday and rely on the marked spots on that map to make it easier […]

That’s the number of non-personal posts on my mind, of course. I was saying that I had two such posts on my mind, wrote one of them, but now there are three left. Admittedly, it just struck me that I should write one of them while preparing to write this one, after I had already […]

Recent reports indicate that Jupiter‘s moon Europa may have small lakes much closer to the surface than the immense ocean long thought to exist beneath its thick frozen outer layer. According to the researchers, this not only improves the chances of life developing, due to an exchange of nutrients taking place between the lakes and […]

This post can be said to be mainly aimed at certain people who try to organize protests in Romania, and particularly in Bucharest, on issues that clearly won’t get the attention of the masses. As such, it’ll contain some specifics that may not apply too well to other places or situations, but the general idea […]