Thursday 9 August 2012

Imperialism


Curiosity, the Mars rover, came to rest on the floor of a deep depression on Mars' equator known as Gale Crater. 

Typical imperialist tactics - giving a Mars location an Earth name. I'll bet you anything that the locals don't call it that.


3 comments:

SpiralChris said...

Either way, there'll be a Starbucks in that depression by the end of the week. >:)

Alan Burnett said...

Whatever it's called, it will be twinned with Slough.

Steve Borthwick said...

"local" is a relative term, on the scale of the solar system it may turn out that we're the "locals"... let's hope not though ;)