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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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Dead Programmer's Cafe

Tag: Monolith

  • Space Odyssey 2004

    My cubicle neighbor pointed out a very unsettling thing to me recently. In the end of the corridor there is …. TUM dum TUM dum TUM dum DUM … that monolith from Space Odyssey 2001. How freaky is that?

    I actually measured it in Photoshop (I am not touching that thing). It’s roughly 1.733 x 3.856 (I don’t know which units Photoshop uses, but that doesn’t matter). A little bit of math – and yes, it is 4 x 9. I did not measure the width.

    I think it’s time for this:

    By the way, Jesse sells originals of his comics ridiculously cheap. I bought this one a while back.

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 →