Here we have reality conforming to the dark despairing worlds of Simon Stålenhag (one of my favorite modern artists).
I came across the image on this Reddit thread.
Some more of Simon’s art. I can’t get enough of this. I want to see the film!
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AATIP: Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program
Another Secret Government Program: https://www.space.com/39325-us-government-ufo-program-legacy.html
I am not a great believer in this UFO stuff, although the wide-eyed adolescent in me would love there to be Aliens amongst us (as long as they’re not space Nazis)…
I did watch Unacknowledged the other day as a pulpy, late-night self-indulgent treat 🙂 There do seem to be an unexpectedly large number of senior politicians in the US saying wacky things about little grey men…
Blue Water Ice on Mars
https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-discover-clean-water-ice-just-below-mars-surface/
Lots of pure water ice just 1m below the surface on Mars. This would certainly be useful when setting up a colony!
Image: Ville Ericsson
“Dundas and his colleagues hypothesize that the ice originated as snow, falling in waves over millions of years.”
Taken with the previous post about the possibility of ancient Martian oceans teaming with life, it is painful to think about the planet dying—eons of increasingly severe winters; organisms freezing and desiccating as seas became ice; millions of years of snow; the Martian atmosphere condensing, freezing and precipitating, settling in drifts hundreds of meters thick blanketing the planet…
