The novel “Martians, go home!” by Fredric Brown was published for the first time in 1955. Luke Devereaux is a science fiction writer who, after his divorce, is trying to start a new novel. To find some inspiration, he goes to an isolated cottage and has some stiff drinks but just when he seems on the right track, in front of him a Martian appears, a classical little green man, who starts taunting him.
Yesterday, when in the U.S.A. it was evening, the Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral starting the CRS-1 (Cargo Resupply Service 1) mission, the first of 12 missions to send the Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station with various cargos then return to Earth, again with various cargos.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that his social network has reached one billion users. About 600 million of those users connect through mobile devices. This milestone was actually reached on September 14 but Zuckerberg has revealed it only yesterday in an interview with “The Today Show” and the magazine Bloomberg Businessweek.
