Geeks, Games and Greatness: Episode 12 - ft. Nick

Sorry for the late upload, but here is the ear candy you have all been waiting for. This week we are joined by our good friend Nick and we talk about the bachelor party, Las Vegas, Buffy, Magic: the Gathering, Mass Effect, the Japanese Land Walker, Curiosity, Pussy Riot, Deadpool and DnD Next.

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Curiosity has landed

This morning NASA successfully landed the 1 ton, car sized Curiosity rover on Mars. And I watched the images come in live. from Mars. I watched a live feed from MARS!

The level of technological advancement we are living with is truly staggering. It boggles my mind. Do you realise the distances involved? The level of ingenuity that went into the landing? Curiosity was attached to a flying platform for entry into the atmosphere and was then lowered to the ground by nylon threads.



I find it difficult to comprehend the mind that come up with that concept, and then work out how to make it work. Unbelievable.

Well done to the entire NASA team. Thank you for showing us that the human race is still capable of amazing feats.

-Odd
"Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science." -Edwin Hubble

To the Red Planet

I recently found the coolest thing. The new NASA Mars rover, Curiosity, is tweeting updates to us.

I think this is a super cool use of social technology. You could use your twitter feed to see what the Kardashians are doing (that's still a thing right?) or to stalk Bieber, but I would rather fill it with edifying and interesting phenomena.



The Mars missions are arguably the coolest things happening in science at the moment. They're at very least the most accessibly mind-blowing (the Higgs Boson is cool, but you need to be a physics nerd to really understand it). So you can follow Curiosity on twitter: https://twitter.com/MarsCuriosity or get the updates from the NASA Website: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html. 


Curiosity is 13 days away from the landing, and I'm really looking forward to getting updates on the fly :) it's going to be awesome.

-Odd
"Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit." -Frank Borman

In The News:

Quantum teleportation breakthrough could herald instantaneousness computing - the idea of quantum teleportaion has been around for a while... but they're actually developing usable applications for the theory.

Robot throws first pitch at a baseball game - all to encourage science and maths education. Robots are cool.

iPhone tracks your location - This has been huge news over the last few weeks.... Apple has since released a new version of iOS that apparently fixes this. If you're using an iPhone/iPad... update your software!

Cracker sized satellites to launch with Space Shuttle Endeavor - A new era in satellite technology? Or just creating more traffic and space-junk in orbit?

Sony Online Gaming Platform Hacked - reports say somewhere around 25 million users had their information stolen... scary, scary, scary things.