Hot on the heels of MAVEN, India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) or Mangalyaan (Mars-vehicle), has also successfully been inserted into it's planned orbit after its Liquid Apogee Motor (LAM) fired as expected. With this India becomes the first Asian nation to successfully send a Mars mission, and the first nation in the world to taste Martian success in its very first attempt. Don't worry, there won't be a collision between the two probes, we drive on opposite lanes... remember!

423 million miles / $75 million = 5.6 mi / $ = not bad!

News coming in that India's Mangalyaan has successfully test fired it's Liquid Apogee Motor (congratulations) and so a possible collision with MAVEN is very much infinitesimally probable :-) Too bad I can't watch it from my 8 inch dob.

(wait, does china have a patent on *that*?)

git tag apple-troll

on a more depressing note, most govt-regulated mass-communication systems are open to this type of abuse :-/

...when your 'eye-dressing' is bigger than you. I'm an innocent victim of this malaise ;-)

An analysis here suggests that the target of Internet censorship was against political blasphemy rather than any generic web censorship. Its worse than a state trying to censor the web as consistent with their national policies; in this case the 'ruling government' is molding laws as it sees fit to its political advantages. Only one of the so called complaints by the ministers was deemed a national security threat.

Big-time censorship in three dimensions.

Does using the stepper motors from old Floppy Disk drives count?

Huh! I want earth to have a Saturn-like ring as well :-)

...you don't sign each other's gpg keys!

Don't just dump me in some random orbit around earth. I wanna rise from the ashes on Ganymede.