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The “Spirit” rover on Mars was designed to last just 90 days in some of the harshest conditions we’ve ever dumped equipment into. After 2,213 days Spirit has finally had to be declared as a stationary research station, and is expected to maybe last a few more months until the accretion of sand prevents it getting power from its solar panels.
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    I thought this was kind of cool, actually. Just grab the slider below the image and drag it along. Top marks to the University of Utah for giving such a neat display of sizes.
And to establish a new trade-route to Asia. The part about the trade-route is correct, but it is commonly held that Columbus had difficulty securing funding for his famous voyage because he had difficulty convincing people that the Earth was round. Actually, very few educated people believed that the Earth was flat since before the birth of Christ. Indeed, the science of navigation by Columbus’ day had long since relied on the fact that the Earth was round. The tools and techniques used were different to those that would have been used if the Earth had been thought to be flat.
It was determined to affect between 20 and 30% of the general population, and is more commonly experienced these days in assorted video games, though not usually with any deadly consequences. Human physiology and psychology is endlessly fascinating. We hold the notion that there’s a clean distinction between the mind and the body, when no such division seems to exist while at the same time we hold some fairly fuzzy notions about selfhood and how we think it’s tangled up with aspects of the body that aren’t really all that relevant. Once upon a time there was SETI@Home, then there was Folding@Home. Now, there’s BOINC (the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), into which all sorts of network computing projects have been folded. A hundredth of a second between keystrokes may seem like hardly any time at all to you, but to your PC (Mac, Linux or Windows) or to your Playstation 3, a hundredth of a second is an opportunity to get a lot of work done. Wagner James Au once told me, “Never start an article with a definition.” Actually, that’s generally pretty good advice for writers in general, I’m told. The problem is that I need to try to sneak my definitions in somewhere and when I leave them until later occasionally they get missed, or worse, misinterpreted. You see, talk about virtual environments goes in all directions at once. No sooner do you get a conversation saddled up than it gallops towards pretty much every point of the horizon. The essential problem is that none of us know what anyone’s really talking about more than half the time.
They also say “Pinch me, I must be dreaming” and “I can’t believe my eyes.” Actually, most of your senses aren’t to be trusted to give you objective absolutes. 
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Virtual Environment Sickness (sometimes referred to as VES or as Simulation Sickness) was first officially researched by the United States Air Force back in the 1990s after the unexpected deaths of two experienced Air Force pilots.
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