While we’re all thinking about Mars…
Several dust devils cross a plain in this animation of a series of images acquired by NASA’s Mars Rover Spirit in May, 2005. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/USGS)
Do you have something you’d like to share? A link? A joke? Some words of wisdom? A topic to discuss? It’s our nightly Open Thread, and you have the floor.
(To the tune of “Puttin’ on the Ritz”)
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If you’re Joe
And you don’t know
Where to go to
Why don’t you do
What you do best?
Pudding and a rest.
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Come, let’s go
With Rockefellers
Where Brandi Sniffer’s
In his cellar
Feathering his nest…
Putin and the rest.
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The Press is just a million-dollar groupie
Trying not to dance around like Snoopy
Super loopy . . .
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DR Congo’s Mysterious Metal Monolith Destroyed by Mob
BBC | February 18, 2021A metal structure that mysteriously appeared on a roundabout in the Democratic Republic of Congo has been destroyed over fears about its origins.
People in the capital, Kinshasa, stoned and torched the 12ft (3.7m) triangular prism.
Witnesses say residents destroyed it to see what was inside.
Local mayor Bayllon Gaibene told the BBC that he had now sent some of the material to be tested by scientists to find out about its origins.
He denied an accusation by Kinshasa’s Governor Gentiny Ngobila that he was responsible for the mysterious monolith.
Mr. Ngobila’s spokesman had said the mayor had wanted to create a buzz.
