Travel snapshots.

Photocomp by Jason Major

I love that we're now able to get regular photos from Mars. This particular shot is from the Curiousity rover, who took a break en route to Mount Sharp to bang the dust off some sampling tools and take a few pictures.  As with the Opportunity rover, it's difficult to avoid imagining something like Wall-E, repeatedly thwacking its sieve against a rock, scrutinizing it briefly but intensely, then rapidly banging it again before rolling off with a general air of satisfaction at a job well done.

On the other hand, I'm a little surprised that NASA doesn't have a more sophisticated solution to dust buildup on geological sampling devices than "thwacking".

 - Sid

And it's not just because Todd let me keep the quantum sphere.

In the wake of the whole Continuum-time-machine thing, I have to admit that I'm probably going to re-visit the show.  I saw part of a Season Three episode today in which an 18-year-old character comes to the realization that the forty-ish man he's talking to is actually his son, while a future version of the same 18-year-old sneaks out the door behind his own back in order to save the girl he loves from dying in a couple of days.  And as far as I can tell, these are just the subplots - obviously there are some interesting things going on.

 - Sid

Time After Time.

 

After finding the quantum sphere from Continuum at lunch a couple of weeks ago, I dutifully sent the requested location selfie with time machine off to Todd Ireland, the show's Social Media Coordinator, with the following comment:

Obviously the coolest thing I’ve ever found at lunch. 

A long echoing silence followed. Which, to be honest, didn't bother me too much, since I was a little concerned that Mr. Ireland would either ask for his sphere back, or request that I find a new spot for it someplace else in the Greater Vancouver Region.

To my mild surprise, the following e-mail appeared in my In box on Friday:

From: Todd Ireland
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:58:14
To:  The Infinite Revolution
Subject: Re: Quantum sphere, as requested.

Wow! I have no idea how I missed this email in my inbox!!!!

I just happened to be going through my emails to see if I missed anything in the last few weeks and found this.

So happy that you found it!

Can you tell us a little bit about how you found it...

Do you watch the show?

May I use your name and photo in our Twitter feed and Facebook page?

Awesome and congrats!

Hold on to that sucker cause it's rare!

Todd Ireland
Script coordinator
Social Media Coordinator
Continuum Season 3

The good news is that Todd doesn't need me to put the quantum sphere back into circulation, which is a huge bonus - it's obviously an incredibly cool thing for a science fiction fan to have.  Thanks very much, Todd!

 - Sid

P.S. The photocomp image at the start just isn't quite making it for me, so, in violation of ongoing policy, there's a good chance I'll change that in the near future - time machine pun not intended.