{"id":218,"date":"2008-09-06T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/?p=218"},"modified":"2008-09-06T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T16:47:00","slug":"things-found-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ravenfamily.org\/sam\/2008\/09\/06\/things-found-on-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Things found on twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ravenfamily.org\/sam\/avatars\/orbessa.jpg\" title=\"It makes the science geek in me so happy.\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" \/> This is the first ever picture of the Earth taken from the surface of another planet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/12173006@N08\/2792194174\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3131\/2792194174_b9e7d3352b.jpg\" alt=\"Taken by the Spirit rover\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>That is awesome. I mean, the pic itself doesn&#8217;t have the same heart-stopping beauty of the Earth taken from our own orbit, but a photo taken from the surface of another planet in our Solar System is just so neat.<\/p>\n<p>And the bio of <a href=\"http:\/\/zipcodemars.jpl.nasa.gov\/bio-contribution.cfm?bid=272&amp;cid=250&amp;pid=248\">Scott Maxwell<\/a>, the rover driver, is not exactly what you&#8217;d expect to find on the NASA website&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It amuses me immensely that the various NASA projects tweet at each other in the first person, such as this one from the <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LRO_NASA\">Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Appreciating my awesome instrument teams&#8230;so glad they&#8217;re here with me during my testing!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While over at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cern\">Cern<\/a> it&#8217;s a rather more dry style:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The final LHC synchronization test before first beam was a success.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s the same as the cultural difference demonstrated by comparing &#8220;Good job!&#8221; with &#8220;Well done,&#8221; I suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first ever picture of the Earth taken from the surface of another planet. 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