Word: robotical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goes to Barbara Ehrenreich for her column "What a Cute Universe You Have!" [ESSAY, Aug. 25]. In it she slams the Pathfinder team for giving rocks on Mars cute names and Disney for making a cartoon that is funny. Offhand I would say that anyone who can land a robot on Mars deserves to name the rocks whatever he wants. It's O.K. for animated films to be funny. And Ehrenreich's sense of wonder and awe at the mysteries of life must be extremely fragile and shallow if it can be spoiled by a few artifacts of popular culture...
...their company (TIME Daily) ... Americans think about money more often than sex, according to the latest Money magazine poll (TIME Daily) ... Speaking of sex, a bill that would require parental notification before teens could get birth control items from federally-funded clinics has been rejected (Reuters) ... And another NASA robot is closing in on Mars (Reuters...
...high up in NASA must have issued a firm directive: "Keep it cuddly, guys. We don't want Mars to seem like, you know, outer space." So when Sojourner bumped into one of the rocks, we were told Yogi gave her a "boo-boo," and when she (yes, the robot is a girl) made a close approach to another one, we were informed that "Sojourner and Barnacle Bill are holding hands." Kind of made you look at the vast red deserts of the two-mooned planet and want to go "Coochy-coochy-coo!" Or, depending on your sensibilities, retire...
...Yemen: Call it the Trespasser mission. Three Yemeni men are suing NASA, claiming that the plucky Sojourner robot has been doing wheelies all over their front lawn. "We inherited the planet from our ancestors 3,000 years ago," explained planetary landlords Adam Ismail, Mustafa Khalil and Abdullah al-Umari in court documents. "Sojourner and Pathfinder. . . began exploring it without informing us or seeking our approval...
...from Earth once again stirred up the Martian dust. More important, for the first time ever, it was going to be able to keep stirring it up well after it landed. Curled up inside Pathfinder like a mechanical kangaroo joey was Sojourner, a 1-ft.-tall, 2-ft.-long robot car, known as a rover, designed to trundle away from the lander and investigate rocks all over the desert-like site...