2020 Hindsight

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Looking at Mars from Both Sides

Just back from the Caltech Management Association noontime program at Caltech, "Looking at Mars from Both Sides." Pete Theisinger, Richard Cook, Mark Adler, Rob Manning, and Joy Crisp. Took copious notes, which I'll transcribe as my other commitments allow.

Lots of war stories about challenges and obstacles overcome to get the rovers designed, built, launched, landed and running on the surface.

Joy Crisp talked about the science discoveries.

And.. there *was* a free lunch! (complete with a Mars candy bar with a custom-extra label with an image from the Mars Rover mission.)

Highlights from Joy Crisp, whose presentation concluded with the latest: on Friday, Opportunity arrived at the edge of Endurance Crater on Meridiani Planum, and sent back images. Go see them here (panorama and 3D red-blue) and here (detail shot).

Dr. Crisp (showing the latter image in her presentation): the crater is 30 meters deep and 130 meters across. At the top you can see the same kind of outcroppings as Opportunity encountered at Eagle Crater (where it landed). There are additional rocks below, those are older. Those deeper rocks, they hope, will show how long liquid water was around, allowing for a better understanding of the extent of liquid water. (The entire Meridiani Planum is about the size of the state of Oklahoma). She says: Keep watch on the web site, higher rez color images to come!

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the so-called Human Rights commission

I guess that Sudan's nomination to the UN Human Rights commission turns the meaning of said commission on its head: Human Rights means "The Right to Slaughter Humans."

In late April, the Human Rights Commission expressed concern about the situation in Sudan's western Darfur region. It stopped short of formal condemnation of the government, which has been accused of backing militias that are destroying villages, executing civilians, raping women and displacing hundreds of thousands of people.

"A government that engages in wholesale abuses of its citizens should not be eligible for a seat at the table, especially a country just criticized by the commission," said Joanna Weschler, U.N. representative for Human Rights Watch, which is part of the coalition.

...In recent years, Human Rights Watch has complained that the growing number of nations on the 53-member commission with poor human rights records have been sticking together to cover up abuses.

(It's stuff like this and UNSCAM that's caused me to question my heretofore unexamined assumption that the UN is unfailingly good and worthy of unquestioning support.)