Monkeys in Space, Time machine, and every other thing to do with Mars

There is something quite interesting to do with Mars and nothing to do with Mars at the same time. Well, let me just say Mars is now the centre of attention, I haven't heard all this drum beat since Pluto was declared "not a planet", in my World, Pluto is still a planet, and a name of goofy dog created by Disney, and yes, the dog is not Goofy the dog either! There were two dogs, one was less smarter than the other, :-)

Back to our Galaxy, Mars Rover landed, cool, then we saw one of  NASA guys with cool mohawk and then the doodle apparently drawn by rover on Mars which begun circulating a couple of days ago. Now with this kind attention to stuff like this, one cannot help but feel, jeez, do we really deserve this planet? We took the image left by rover and carefully deciphered it as stupid as we can and belittled the bigger picture here, the actual fact that humanity now has samples from Mars and it is being tested, good job.

Forget about monkeys in space, Iranian scientist is claiming to have invented time machine and its not like the one we see in movies either. This is special, you cannot time travel, but it can predict your future! yes! Its like a psychic made of machine assembled in Tehran! Well, apparently the machine can be used by governments to predict future, like outcomes of war. The creator of this time machine created it so that it can used selectively predicting things that can happen in 5-8 years time, like help a couple predict the sex of their child. Hmmmm, fascinating, however, without this machine doctors actually can help couples have a child of their preferred sex, and infanticide is out of question, that is simply murder!Since no one except the scientist knows of this machine's capabilities, lets just leave it alone for a moment and push it aside, who knows it might predict the sequel to the Hobbit.

Again, back to Mars, our fascination with our neighbouring planet that cannot support life is endless. The recent announcement by a Dutch company to send people to Mars have generated a lot of debates. For starters we all can think of one person we would like to give that free one way ticket, however, take a moment and think about it, really, seriously. Well, there is definitely not one person but group of people, and the World will be quite a safer place. And for people who want to go there voluntarily, well, first, I do not think I have the guts to recycle urine and drink it, live in capsule, see no trees, and have my daily interaction with my fellow Martians beamed back to Earth for a group of psychologist to analyse, its just too much. On the other hand life is a journey and everyone's journey is different, wanna go to Mars? why not, you will actually see our little blue planet in a way that I will never see! Scary as it might seem as it goes against the comfort we have created for ourselves here on Earth, the thrill of living on a planet that is stark different from ours will not only prove challenging but it can actually make us discover something about ourselves as humans. 

News about Mars might have filled the virtual World, but, here on Earth in places some of us might have never heard of, Earth day was celebrated, Penguins too were celebrated. These are the things we for sure will never find on Mars, OH, and by the way, scientists in Australia brought back to life an extinct species of frog called gastric brooding frog, cool, and the cooler part is that it brings forth young ones through its mouth. This species disappeared in 1980's, thanks to availability of its genome its back, good job Aussies, now we have one more reptile that makes Australia a little bit "colder" and scarier place than it was two months ago.
Location: Baku, Azerbaijan

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