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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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What’s next now that China has officially landed their first rover on Mars? How come us mammals don’t have bright, fluorescent plumage like birds or cool neon stripes like bugs? A panel of scientists weighs in. And the little-known detail that makes the real-life story of the Brontë sisters even more goth and tragic than it already was. Sponsor: Skillshare, Get a free trial of Premium Membership at skillshare.com/kottke Links: China has landed a rover on Mars for the first time—here’s what happens next (MIT Technology Review) China lands its Zhurong rover on Mars (BBC) Why Aren't There Mammals in Super Vivid Colors Like There Are Birds and Bugs? (Gizmodo) Apparently the Brontës all died so early because they spent their lives drinking graveyard water. (Literary Hub) Sanitary report on Haworth, home to the Brontës (British Library) The Brontës are alive and unwell in Haworth (The Guardian) Was Patrick Brontë the Dr. Fauci of his Time? (Illumination) Legends of the Hidden Temple Reboot Moves From Quibi to CW (IGN) Now Casting: ADULT TEAMS FOR LEGENDS OF THE HIDDEN TEMPLE Kottke.Org Jackson Bird on Twitter See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	welcome to the khatky ride home for t, May 18th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.
0:42.7	What's next now that China has officially landed their first rover on Mars?
0:49.0	How come us mammals don't have bright fluorescent plumage like birds or cool neon stripes like bugs.
0:57.0	A panel of scientists weighs in.
0:59.5	And the lesser-known detail that makes the real-life story of the Bronte sisters
1:05.1	even more goth and tragic than it already was.
1:08.9	Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:14.6	You likely heard over the weekend that China landed their first rover on Mars.
1:20.6	Called Zhurong, in honor of the god of fire in Chinese mythology, the six-wheeled robot touched down in Utopia Planetia in
1:29.9	Mars's northern hemisphere. China is only the second nation after the U.S. to successfully land on
1:36.8	Mars and keep the spacecraft there, and its landing location of Utopia Planetia, which it picked
1:42.4	after orbiting the planet for a few months in
1:44.7	search of an optimal landing zone, is the same one that NASA's Viking 2 landed on in 1976.
1:51.9	Quoting the BBC, the robot looks a lot like NASA's spirit and opportunity vehicles from the 2000s.
1:58.1	It weighs some 240 kilograms and is powered by fold-out solar panels.
2:03.6	A tall mast carries cameras to take pictures and aid navigation. Five additional instruments will
2:08.6	investigate the mineralogy of local rocks and the general nature of the environment,
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