1972 Soviet postage stamp commemorating the Mars 2 probe

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Mars For The Rest of Us — a weekly-or-more deep dive on the technical side of Mars exploration: rocket propulsion, microbiology, mission architecture, and everything in between. Written by Maciej Ceglowski.

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  • Non DEA

    My wife bought me a bottle of Sesame Street© bubble bath. Here’s the back of the bottle.

    Now I can’t stop wondering what Drug Enforcement Administration version of bubble bath would be like. The non-DEA bottle has Cookie Monster on it, the DEA one would probably have Bert.

    If it’s not that DEA, which DEA is it? Dance Educators of America? Data Encryption Algorithm? Department of Elder Affairs?

    Oh, wait, wait. False alarm. It’s not an unsolvable mystery. DEA stands for Diethanolamine. But come on, this is not the DEA we all know and love.

1972 Soviet postage stamp commemorating the Mars 2 probe

worth a read

Mars For The Rest of Us — a weekly-or-more deep dive on the technical side of Mars exploration: rocket propulsion, microbiology, mission architecture, and everything in between. Written by Maciej Ceglowski.

Read it on Substack