Friday, January 30, 2009

Bloodshot eyes on the sparrow.....

So i'm reading New Scientist (Yes, I read New Scientist), and I come across one of those crazy sentences that makes you proud to be a part of the human race.
OK, we fight a lot over stupid insecurities, and we're probably destroying the planet, and a lot of the issues of the world could be sorted out if everyone went "OK, in past some crazy bullshit went down, everyone got hurt in a variety of different ways, I acknowledge that and respect it, it sucked, but we start afresh right.... now". I know all that, and it frustrates me no end.
But no other animal that we are aware of could do something like putting into orbit "four telescopes - equipped with the world's largest digital cameras, at 1.4 billion pixels apiece - that will search the skies for anything that blinks or moves. Their main purpose is to look out for potentially hazardous asteroids bound for Earth, but inhabitants of the outer solar system will not escape its all-seeing eyes.
Their main purpose is to look out for potentially hazardous asteroids bound for Earth.
Bring it on, universe. Humans are hard bodied and hoodied up.

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