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...Sims 2, Strangetown is set in a barren desert landscape strewn with the remains of a space ship that is sunk deep inside a crater. Its inhabitants are even weirder. Try as he may to fit in, there's no hiding that Mr. Smith is actually a Martian. And why is that nice-looking couple, the Beakers, performing scientific experiments on that poor fellow Nervous Subject...
...Woman showed real, brilliant people giving life through bionics," says Howard, now 32. "I figured I could do it too." After detouring from artificial limbs to artificial intelligence, Howard is currently developing software that will enable J.P.L.'s forthcoming Mars probes to choose their landing sites and navigate the Martian surface by mimicking the way a human might handle the job. Her "neural network" reacts the same way humans do when facing rugged terrain, avoiding steep grades and accelerating through straightaways...
...there was also, for the NASA team, the pleasure that comes from making a genuine contribution to space science. For despite all the signs pointing to Mars' watery past, until Opportunity poked its instruments into the Martian rocks, nobody was really sure how real that water was. At least some of the surface formations that look water carved could have been formed by volcanism and wind. Just two years ago, University of Colorado researchers published a persuasive paper suggesting that any water on Mars was carried in by crashing comets and then quickly evaporated...
...Columbia space shuttle last year, killing all seven astronauts on board, has raised doubts about the cost of space travel - both in terms of dollars and in human life. Unmanned missions like Rosetta - and Britain's plucky little Beagle-2, which vanished without a trace while heading to the Martian surface from Mars Express last Christmas - are safe, of course. But many wonder whether the millions, or billions, it costs to mount such expeditions wouldn't be better spent on improving life here on Earth. So the stakes for Rosetta are high: the scientific breakthroughs have to be big enough...
...Martian Musings...