Life on Mars?

While this has nothing directly to do with Intro to Digital Media, I think it's worth mentioning here.

These pictures are from Saturn's moon Titan. This means that we have put a digital machine on Titan, and that it has sent back information with a transmission powerful enough for scientists all the way back on earth some light-minutes away to receive detailed photographs of an alien world.

And this is, like, third page news.

I know it happened a few weeks ago, but the local news show I saw mentioned it on the night it happened in a thirty-second blurb halfway through the broadcast. Does this not boggle anyone else's mind that we've put a probe on a moon of the fourth furthest planet from the sun and that in this tech-savvy age, no one gives a crap?

There's a man-made object on a Saturnian moon! Why is there not like a ticker-tape parade for the team of NASA nerds that built this thing and made it land and function on a surface farther away than any surface we've ever had something land and function on before? Arthur C. Clarke is looking down on us right now thinking, "well, they're four years late, but, hey, at least they're out there."

There was this hour long special on MTV about Ashlee Simpson. And I'm pretty sure more people saw that then even know where Titan is, much less that mankind just conquered it. That's one of the perils of living in a scientific age, I guess. In a scientific age, noticing science has become blasé.

posted by Baylor at 7:33 PM