Cav's Place

It was announced yesterday that Opportunity holds the off-Earth roving distance record after all, the total odometry reaching 40.25 kilometers on July 27. In fact, the little rover became the holder of that record on or around April 19, when it passed 39 kilometers, but it appears that the distance traveled by Lunokhod 2 was […]

This isn’t only another personal post thrown here on Sunday because I couldn’t make myself write anything else over the weekend, but also a second personal post written this week, since I couldn’t get myself to write anything else earlier either. Been quite a while since this last happened, but there’s only one non-personal issue […]

The number of words I needed to have when I reached exactly four years of daily writing so the average won’t drop below 250 per day was clear and I managed to make that, but only barely, with no more than a few to spare, so after that point I had to actually write that […]

Occasionally thought about this in the past as well, or at least for the past year or so, but recent events definitely made the issue gain a whole lot more importance in my mind and in fact I already posted a quick rant about it somewhere else, on top of longer ones sent to the […]

I guess I need to post something here this week, right? In that case, let me try to ignore the fact that I’m going from one panic attack to the next and whimpering and wanting to just curl in a ball and block everything out, and see if I can start with the good, which […]