no optimism like that from Curiosity

Aug 07, 2012 19:38

So, as might be expected given my workplace, there was a live feed set up on a big screen for the MSL landing and we all came to watch, since it was the middle of the afternoon. And there was the worry, and heart-in-mouth tension, and hope, watching where all that can be hoped is that the right thing was done, by a lot of people trying to be very ( Read more... )

astromusings, poetry acceptance: yay!

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selidor August 10 2012, 00:23:09 UTC
Yes! SH will be a WONDER. *anticipatory*

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selidor August 10 2012, 00:24:03 UTC
aw thank you!
also, iconlove.

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sovay August 7 2012, 21:30:18 UTC
As one of the engineers said, once the spacecraft lands it becomes ensouled.

*cough*poem*

Cinema from MARS.

Amen.

my poem for asakiyume's poem-seed, 'The Architect of Snow', has been accepted by Strange Horizons.

It's a very good piece!

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selidor August 10 2012, 00:45:11 UTC
*cough*poem*

I might just have mentioned that thinking that someone would pick up on it!
One stanza appeared. Will see where it goes.

It's a very good piece!

*happydance*
I promise I will send SH a poem devoid of dwarf planets - eventually...

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sovay August 10 2012, 17:06:46 UTC
I promise I will send SH a poem devoid of dwarf planets - eventually...

You say that as if dwarf planets were a bad thing!

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