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Tuesday Morning Spice
29 Sep 2015 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Water on Mars. Facebook down again. Record Apple iPhone sales. Forensic consultant says he will kill Krejicir. Woman who helped Shawshank escape goes to jail. They know how Bobbi Kristina died. Domestic worker pay – let’s have that chat. Paul Walker daughter to sue Porsche. Simpsons’ Smithers coming out.
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Elon Musk Explains With His SA Accent Why He Wants To Bomb Mars [Video]
11 Sep 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
It’s not quite ‘I are like to bomb Mars’ but there’s still a South African twang to Elon’s accent. Looks like he has some interesting ideas for Mars as well.
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People Are Freaking Out As New Pictures Seem To Show A Woman Standing On Mars
11 Aug 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Mars’s Curiosity rover does it again, throwing the alien-hunting world into a frenzy over a possible woman hanging out on Mars.
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People Are Flipping Out Over This ‘Crab’ Spotted In A Mars Photo
06 Aug 2015 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
There’s nothing better than a tantalising conspiracy theory to make your day that more awesome as you search photographs of Mars for alien life.
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Elon Musk’s Latest Idea For The Internet Is A Game Changer
12 Jun 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
This could be something big folks, something that changes the way a large percentage of the world uses the internet. Elon Musk isn’t aiming small with this one.
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WATCH: Interview With SA Woman Who Is In Final 100 For 1-Way Trip To Mars [Video]
10 Mar 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
You may have heard that there are 100 people competing for the chance to win a one-way ticket to Mars, but did you know us Saffas have five people in the final running?
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VICE Interview With Mars Mission Finalist
20 Feb 2015 by Kiernan / No Comments
It takes a special kind of person to want to go live on Mars. We’re not talking a brief visit here guys, we’re talking living and dying on a planet that has less of a vibe than Port Elizabeth.
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Whoah – There Are Signs Of Life On Mars!
17 Dec 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So, there really actually could be the chance for humans to move to Mars as an alternative planet. Isn’t that exciting? Obviously it’s going to take a bit more research…
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Muslims Have Been Banned From Living On Mars
21 Feb 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Bad news for Muslims dreaming of going where no man has gone before. Islamic clerics have banned Muslims from living on Mars. But there is some logic behind this, considering you will most likely die from the red planet’s harsh environment.
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Meet Kobus Vermeulen – He Could Be The First South African On Mars [INTERVIEW]
24 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
“Let’s send Kobus to Mars,” is something you will never hear coming out of NASA mission controller’s mouth. The likelihood that a South African would be chosen to go to space, let alone to form a human colony on Mars is not very strong. But through private and public funding, the Mars One Expedition may do just that.
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Stop Everything: A Mysterious White Rock Has Appeared Near NASA’s Mars Rover
23 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Specifically, the weird rock appeared near the Mars Rover ‘Opportunity’, which has been exploring the red planet since 2004.
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Wednesday Morning Spice
08 Jan 2014 by Seth Rotherham / No Comments
Apple app store’s mindblowing 2013 sales. SA ex-pats can vote. Mars 1-way ticket short list released. Downton Abbey breaks more US records. Intel drops McAfee name. Adele’s breakout album smashes records. Ralph Lauren’s niece in trouble. e-Tag sales revealed.
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Everything You Need To Know About The First Human Colony On Mars [INFOGRAPHIC]
30 Oct 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
Could we ever truly live on Mars? The mind boggles at the thought of it – partially because so many questions remain unanswered. Will we be able to come back? Will we be able to breathe up there? It just seemed too implausible to truly happen. But doubt no longer, because we have confirmation from this here infographic that a Mars settlement mission is very much on the cards.
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STOP EVERYTHING: They Just Found Water On Mars
27 Sep 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Just when you thought the Curiosity Rover was just digging up dirt up in vain up on the red planet, it’s gone and struck gold – well, water, actually. That’s right, believe it or not, there’s water on Mars.
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InstaMars: Rare Images Of The Red Planet Snapped By The Curiosity Rover [GALLERY]
07 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is a treat. A rare look into what it looks like on Mars thanks to the Curiosity Rover’s image collection. These rare images capture the terrain of the Red Planet.
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Radical 2-Minute Time Lapse Shows Mars Rover’s First Year On Mars [VIDEO]
02 Aug 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
It has almost been a year since NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover touched down on the red planet. The WALL-E lookalike landed on Mars on 6 August last year, and since then has been drilling into the martian planet, collecting soil samples and taking some of the best selfies in the universe.
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One Day Astronauts Will Be Able To View Mars Like This [VIDEO]
02 Jul 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The European Space Agency has given us a look into what it would look like if we had to orbit Mars. Using 600 photographs gleaned by the Visual Monitoring Camera this video has been created to give us a first look at the surroundings of the planet. The VMC captured the images during one complete seven-hour […]
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Awesome Time Lapse Alert: The Mars Rover’s 9 Month Mission In 1 Minute [VIDEO]
28 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
NASA’s Curiosity Rover has been poodling around on the surface of Mars for over nine months now, poking in the dirt and sending back pictures of its shadow and/or penises that it drew in the sand. You can thank a humanoid, then, for recovering some of Curiosity’s dignity with this excellent time lapse
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Dilithium Crystals From Star Trek Could Be Used To Fly Astronauts To Mars – Really
29 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Remember how the fictional dilithium crystals were used to make travel faster than the speed of light in Star Trek: The Next Generation? Well those crystals – or crystals with an uncanny similarity to them – may be coming to the real world in one of the best instances of art imitating life that we’ve ever seen.
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Mars Curiosity Rover Draws Penis On Red Planet – For Real [PIC]
25 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The Mars Curiosity Rover, the world’s most expensive robot has taken to occupying its time by drawing penises on the surface of the red planet.
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They’re Making A Mars Colony Reality Show – Apply Here [VIDEO]
23 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Anybody up for winning a trip to Mars? Dutch company, Mars One began looking for volunteer astronauts to fly to Mars on Monday. The departure date is set for the year 2022, with landing set to be in 2023. And they’re going to finance it with reality TV
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Amateur Astronomers Find Mars Lander Lost In 1971
22 Apr 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In 1971 the Soviet lander Mars 3 was the first soft landing on the red planet. The lander only operated for aproximately 15 seconds, then the device failed. Since its first landing, Mars 3’s resting place has been unknown.
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Result: Mars Could Have Supported Life
13 Mar 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
NASA’s Curiosity rover has found evidence that ancient Mars could have supported organisms, and they may even have thrived. Curiosity touched down on Gale crater a little over seven months ago. The crater had been identified by satellite data as a possibly inhabitable environment. The results were returned fast, with Curiosity discovering an ancient riverbed […]
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Calling All Couples: Apply For The Mission To Mars Today [VIDEO]
28 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Unites States millionaire, Dennis Tito is looking for a couple to send on a round trip to Mars in 2018. Tito reportedly paid £13 million in 2001 for a ticket to become the first private space tourist. The round trip to Mars will reportedly take 501 days, and project leaders are looking for a couple who have been […]
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Curiosity Rover Delivers Spectacular Interactive Panorama From Mars Surface [PIC]
12 Feb 2013 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Over the weekend, NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully drilled into the surface of Mars and collected its first sample from inside a Martian rock. Take a moment to stand right beside Curiosity, and enjoy the Martian landscape. The context, courtesy of Wired: Late on Feb. 8, Curiosity drilled a 6.4-cm-deep hole into a rock nicknamed John Klein on the surface […]
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Wednesday Morning Spice
09 Jan 2013 by Seth Rotherham / 2 Comments
Applications open for 2023 Mars colony. Chavez inauguration postponed. David Bowie releases single after 10 years. Western Cape farm strikes return. Cheap iPhone 4 coming out soon. Free wi-fi in NY from Google. Longest tennis tie-break ever.
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NASA Tests First Nuclear Engine For Deep-Space Exploration Since 1965 [VIDEO]
28 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
For the first time in nearly 50 years, NASA has used a small prototype of a nuclear-reactor engine design to test whether this could one day power deep-space exploration probes.
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Elon Musk Wants To Build 80,000-Person Mars Colony, Probably Will
27 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
That is correct, our very own Elon Musk is staying true to his word about doing things on Mars. Except he’s changed his tune slightly – he no longer just wants to send one person all the way there.
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Elon Musk Should Have Been Made Businessperson Of The Year [VIDEO]
19 Nov 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Fortune Magazine has named Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as its “Businessperson of the Year.” But, as Business Insider points out, he probably didn’t deserve it as much as our homebred Elon Musk.
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Awesome Interactive 360° Panorama From The Surface Of Mars
14 Aug 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
Unless you’re currently in some kind of deep space training program, or you have some diabolical plan that no one knows about, the chances are pretty slim that you’ll ever actually get to set foot on Mars. Thankfully, we’ve got the next best thing for you, a fully interactive 360° panorama from the surface of the Red Planet. Enjoy.
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