Another great benefit of working in a cube farm is all the pathogens that go around and around the workforce. The great are those sleaze-bag companies that bundle vacation time and sick time so that the walking wounded will drag themselves into the office and share their new, exciting viruses.

Anyone listening? Does this probe have an RTG. I assume so, but can someone check the specs. What is going to happen to the plutonium inside it?

A radioactive museum piece? No lighting needed. I suspect it has plutonium RTGs in it

Plutonium RTG? The Soviets loved plutonium....

The MOXIE experiment is stunt, a pointless stunt. It displaced real science for a stunt to please the Manned Mission Directorate. This Directorate just cannot help themselves and they are always mucking up real science.

This idiotic experiment could have been done in any of a hundred college basements....but now the rover has to lug this dead weight all over the surface. If we must have such a pointless experiment, why not do it on a stationary lander.....

It is so creepy that China is so paranoid that they have to astroturf Slashdot with this propaganda. Just creepy. The more you astroturf, the more creepy you get.

The evidence is overwhelming the the virus came from a lab in Wuhan. And there is plenty of evidence that it is a result of a gain-of-function experiment (i.e. the virus was engineered to infect humans) gone out of control.

It is really creepy that China is so paranoid that it has to astroturf even minor sites such as slashdot.

Sure there is no proof the COVID-19 was studied in the two Wuhan viral lab, but there is a ton of proof that these labs studied corona viruses in bat; they published articles about it. Even their gain of function work was well document.

But you (i.e. the Chinese Communist Party) would have us believe that of all the thousands of wet markets in China, the one next to the labs is where the virus magically mutated.

Would someone please remove this Chinese state-sponsored troll...

2-3% is from the CCP and they have have lied from day one about the corona virus and they are still lying.

I expect that the Chinese will be sued. When they tried to coverup the outbreak, they made the problem worse. And the virus probably escaped from their lab in Wuhan and it might even be a bioweapon....

Here is the Advanced Praise section of a book called, "In the Wake of the Willows". It is a sequel to "The Wind in the Willows" set in New England and many of the characters did not seem to appreciate the author:

“A squid could have inked a better book, and it would have smelled a whole lot better.” -- Haggis McBadger

“You are sure to see this book in the newspapers, literally, after it has been pulped and turned into newsprint.” -- The Tidewater Beacon

“Since I am a literary agent, my job is to reject manuscripts, thousands and thousands of them. These submissions quickly become a blur, but Mr. Thurber’s manuscript was so painfully bad that it stood out from the slush pile. It was with immense pleasure that I sent him a tart rejection letter. Imagine my shock and horror when I found this abomination at a local book store.” -- Noelle A. Vail, Sisyphus Literary Agency

Here is the Advanced Praise section of a book called, "In the Wake of the Willows". It is a sequel to "The Wind in the Willows" set in New England and many of the characters did not seem to appreciate the author (Frederick Thurber): “A squid could have inked a better book, and it would have smelled a whole lot better.” -- Haggis McBadger “You are sure to see this book in the newspapers, literally, after it has been pulped and turned into newsprint.” -- The Tidewater Beacon “Mr. Thurber should be ashamed of himself for such a scurrilous and contemptible depiction of my dear grandfather, Mr. Toad.” --Baroness Raquel Toad, Westport Point, Massachusetts “The author of this book should be condemned for promoting and glorifying the scandalous sport of croquet. This book can only serve to promote the moral decay of our community.” -- T Rev. Cotton Mather III “Mr. Thurber: You might have imagined your libelous depiction of my client’s family to be amusing, but my client did not. You repeated the outrageous and discredited claim that his weasel relatives had been convicted of overdue library books, but there are no records for this baseless and defamatory claim, never mind their other heinous crimes such as mismatched socks, jay walking, split infinitives, bad breath, and appalling table manners. See you in court!” -- Peevish Weasel III, Esq. “Lies, lies, damnable lies.” -- Portly Otter III “Since I am a literary agent, my job is to reject manuscripts, thousands and thousands of them. These submissions quickly become a blur, but Mr. Thurber’s manuscript was so painfully bad that it stood out from the slush pile. It was with immense pleasure that I sent him a tart rejection letter. Imagine my shock and horror when I found this abomination at a local book store.” -- Noelle A. Vail, Sisyphus Literary Agency “Upon reading this book, I felt betrayed. After we had extracted a solemn promise from Mr. Thurber to protect our privacy, he gleefully penned a tawdry exposé. His scurrilous and mendacious interpretation of our history has made a mockery of our community.” -- Marten Fisher, The Riverside Historical Society