When it landed, the Mars Rover Curiosity used a program suitable to touch down safely on the Martian surface. Once that phase was over, that software became useless so the memory can be reused for a program suitable to manage Curiosity’s ground operations. That’s exactly what was transmitted from the control center during the long update it received over the last few days.
The novel “The High Crusade” by Poul Anderson was published for the first time in 1960, first serialized in the magazine “Astounding” then as a book. In 1345, Sir Roger, Baron de Tourneville, is preparing to join his king in his war against France when near the English village of Ansby an alien spaceship lands. That’s a Wersgorix scout ship whose crew expects to terrorize the primitive Earthlings. Actually, fear pushes humans to attack the aliens, killing most of them.
Dwight Howard was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in a complex operation which involved four NBA teams. Let’s take a good look at this whole players movement. Dwight Howard arrives to the Los Angeles Lakers. Andrew Bynum goes from the Lakers to the Philadelphia 76ers. Jason Richardson goes from the Orlando Magic to the 76ers. Andre Iguodala goes from the 76ers to the Denver Nuggets. Arron Afflalo and Al Harrington go from the Nuggets to the Magic. Nikola Vucevic and Moe Harkless go from the 76ers to the Magic. Chris Duhon and Earl Clark go from the Magic to the Lakers. Josh McRoberts and Christian Eyenga go from the Magic to the Lakers. The Orlando Magic also obtained a series of conditional first and second picks for the next years drafts.
The great master of movies special effects Carlo Rambaldi died today. He was born on September 15, 1925 in Vigarano Mainarda, Italy. During his career, he won three Oscars for visual effects and special effects: for the 1976 movie “King Kong”, the 1979 movie “Alien” and 1982 movie “ET the Extra-Terrestrial”.
