The View From Mars

--- My little corner of the Red Planet

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Once lived on Earth, contemplating a return.

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OCTOBER 6, 2008 3:41PM

Earth at Night; how to gain a totally different perspective

If you were to travel to the Moon, or to, say, Mars, this is how you might see the Earth at night:

  Terra Terrain At Night - Composite View

Given that this is a bit hard to view at this limited scale, take a look at the web page view of the composite picture  over here.Read full post »

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OCTOBER 2, 2008 3:49AM

Palin-opsia

Back about 5 years ago, while still on terra firma, I noticed that things were not as they appeared.  Literally, my vision had attained a new level of CGI wonderment, as if a "Matrix" chip had been implanted right there in the visual processing volume of the occipital lobe.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2008 10:12AM

What would Alan Greenspan do?

What I want to know is, what would Jesus Alan Greenspan do?

During the reign of Hizzonor Alan Greenspan, we didn't have to live through serial bail-outs of mortgage lenders and Wall Street firms as we have been doing since the new head of the Fed took over, right?  It's been… Read full post »

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2008 3:21AM

It's An Election Year, Stupid


First let me state I am neither a professor of finance nor economics at any institution, not even my local Red Dust Darlings Day Care.  But I've observed the insanity growing exponentially in  the US's banking systems, mortgage lending, and mortgage agglomeration programs in the past 20 -

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2008 5:14PM

Happy Families ??

Could this soap opera get worse?  Well, yes, yes it could.

 It is now reported by AOL news and other respected news outlets that Bristol's unwed father-BF will be joining his vicarious family and Presidential candidate John McCain on the stage at the Convention.

 Levi Johnston, the boyRead full post »

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2008 2:20AM

Reality Bites

Reality bites the big one.  It really does.  Those of us in the real world know this.  People who live in ivory towers (or want to live in White Houses?) are so far removed from "reality" they wouldn't know it if it came up and bit them in the ass.

Which… Read full post »

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2008 7:54PM

Deserves a blog-post of its own

 
                            Sub-titles say it all.
 
  
The subtitles say it all. Honor and Integrity?  She didn't come clean with this, what else is she hi… Read full post »

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2008 7:22PM

Palin's Daughter

McCain's choice for veep has already proven embarrassing. It turns
out that her 17 year old unmarried daughter is 5 months pregnant.
Believe it or not, she disclosed this because "liberal bloggers" were
making a case that Palin's youngest baby was actually her daughter's
baby and she was covering tha… Read full post »

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