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Here’s something a researcher told me in a recent interview with some asteroid miners: when it comes to newspace, failure is an option. It has to be. If we restrict ourselves as a species only to tasks with super high confidence rates, the rate of progress will slow to a crawl. This failure is an option theme may lead in my upcoming post on Planetary Resources. For now, SpaceX is doing marvelously:
Late afternoon on Mars
May 24, 2012 at 6:29 am 
Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew 
Mars rover Opportunity captures its own shadow on the rim of Endeavour Crater. Image credit NASA/JPL
I’m building up a smorgasborg of Martian images and news articles below …
Diablo 3: Real money auction house delayed
May 23, 2012 at 7:52 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew Blizzard’s long anticipated video game Diablo 3 may now rank as the best-selling, or fastest selling, PC game in history. But the crown jewel of the virtual battleground, the Real Money Auction House, has reportedly been delayed:
Haunted dreams and guest bloggers
May 23, 2012 at 7:07 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew I should probably quit smoking. And please, before anyone jumps into comments with their former-smoker zeal and personal horror stories, you cannot scare me anymore than the Terrie the Smoker ad already has, she scares me plenty. That poor, incredibly brave gal’s rasping voice now haunts my dreams and swims in my blood. Other than that, I’m looking straight down the barrel of another insanely long day in the middle of another insanely long week. Hopefully I can grab a few minutes and find some tidbits to post in between crises.
Speaking of time management and lack thereof, are any of you regs interested in guest blogging for this site? I haven’t worked out the details or even thought much about it, but it’s probably time to tap some of the talent around these parts.
Arctic methane: The big burp begins?
May 22, 2012 at 7:26 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew 
In climate change models one of many wild cards is the ancient methane stored in the bottom of shallow icy seas and sequestered away in Arctic permafrost. As the surface temperature warms, the potent greenhouse gas could be released, further warming the region and causing more methane ‘burps’. The process could theoretically feed back and run away, quickly:
SpaceX Falcon 9 lights up Spacecoast
May 22, 2012 at 6:37 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew 
An unmanned SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lit up early morning skies around Kennedy Space Center this morning. The booster and its Dragon spacecraft could signal a new era in more affordable space travel:
Stolen handshakes: session ID hijacking rumors in Diablo III may be overblown
May 21, 2012 at 7:39 pm Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew If you read the gaming blogs and forums of the world, and hey, who doesn’t, you might have seen rumors swirling about something called session ID hijacking in the latest gaming sensation, Diablo III. It’s gone mainstream:
Eclipse pics!
May 21, 2012 at 7:28 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew 
The eclipse from space
I’ve seen a few eclipses, even a total one as a kid. But I have never seen what I saw last night. I leave my office after a long, long day — which is why this site has been unattended the last few days – and totally forgot about the eclipse. Got into the parking lot and the light looked damn weird. The sun was just starting to think about setting. It was bright, cars and buildings were lit up all orange on one side, and yet it was dim. Hard to explain. Light twinkled oddly through the tree tops.
A few minutes later I was driving west, straight into it, and through the tinted top part of my windshield I could see it plain as day: something was taking a big black bite out of the sun! This is about what it looked like:
Eclipse tonight for east and west
May 20, 2012 at 6:56 am Stephen "DarkSyde" Andrew 
Get set, there will be a partial solar eclipse visible in some parts of the nation this evening and if you live a little west of thew Mississippi River you might catch a glimpse (Do not stare right into it, or you’re just an idiot):
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