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- Neal Asher
- Latchingdon, Essex, United Kingdom
- I’ve been an engineer, barman, skip lorry driver, coalman, boat window manufacturer, contract grass cutter and builder. Now I write science fiction books, and am slowly getting over the feeling that someone is going to find me out, and can call myself a writer without wincing and ducking my head. As professions go, I prefer this one: I don’t have to clock-in, change my clothes after work, nor scrub sensitive parts of my body with detergent. I think I’ll hang around. Contact: ndotasheratvirgindotnet
5 comments:
I wouldn't be suprised if someone started complaining about tyre tracks being left on virgin martian soil.
Pretty cool robot, though I prefer Amistad or Sniper.
I wonder how much scifi and real life crossover when things like self powering robots are concerned?
whenever i see slow moving things like this i think of that P K Dick story of the robot that crawls into rooms and plants dna around to frame people.
That reminds me, I must watch
Wall-E again
It's a fairly old animation. I found it while researching Martian geolody/environment. Previously I'd only seen bits of it. What gets me, seeing the whole thing, is the number of transformation/ separations gone through to get that robot down on the surface. Lot of mechanical operations that could easily fail ... as they have done with other probes.
Never mind all that. How much is that thing going to be worth as a science antique in years to come? How much would you pay for a rock, abraided by the Mars rover, or for that matter anything we fired off into space during the pioneer ages.
These are the things that one day, will sit in glass cases belonging to the utterly wealthy?
Imagine being the bloke wealthy enough to send his private craft to snaffle up Voyager 2 for his private collection.
I Wikied this: How long it's been out there already. 33 years, 4 months, and 10 days ago
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