Author: m1k3y

… the iPad isn’t so much new technology as it is a shiny, pretty doorway to a mall where you can buy everything from books to movies.

The iPad hasn’t brought us forward into the future. It’s taken us backward to a world of strip malls and televisions.

Why The iPad Is Crap Futurism – io9
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At the end of a convoy in which he received and returned fire with his 50 calibre machine gun, U.S. Marine turret gunner Cpl. Ian Bole, of Port Royal, South Carolina, wearing a face mask with a skull design, breathes steam on a cold day inside an armored vehicle in the Pech Valley, Kunar province, northeastern Afghanistan on Thursday Jan. 28, 2010. (via Afghanistan, January, 2010 – The Big Picture – Boston.com)

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The bulk of the cost of a Mars mission is getting people to the surface and back again,” says Pascal Lee, chairman of the Mars Institute in Moffett Field, California. “If you wait for everything to be ready, it will be decades. Phobos offers us a way to get to the very doorstep of Mars.

Destination Phobos: humanity’s next giant leap – space – 27 January 2010 – New Scientist

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