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I keep going back to watch this video it just captures my sense of humour perfectly

Space nerds, rejoice! NASA's InSight spacecraft just landed on Mars

The lander will check out Mars' interior.

Congratulations fellow Earthlings!

We have successfully put NASA’s InSight lander on the surface of Mars, where it will be critical in helping us understand what’s going on beneath the surface of the Red Planet. 🙌🏾

The lander will use its sensitive instrumentation to learn more about “marsquakes” that shake the planet every now and then.

Unlike quakes on Earth, marsquakes aren’t the result of tectonic activity. Instead, scientists think these shakes are created as Martian rock slowly cools.

InSight will effectively be able to map the Martian interior as these quakes hit.

The lander is also expected to piece together the history of Mars formed by studying its interior, information that could help us understand the formation of planets outside of our solar system in the future.

NASA scientists predict that they will begin receiving the most pertinent data from InSight around March 2019, and can then begin updating what we know about the goings on beneath Mars’ surface… including whether (as the current hypothesis suggests) there is actually water hidden beneath the planet’s crust.

I love saying “of course” instead of “you’re welcome,” like of course I’m helping you that’s what I do, you were foolish to even consider an alternate dimension in which I’m not helping you. you idiot. you absolute buffoon.

gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining

because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe

and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us– we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them

and then

we built robots?

and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image

and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone

but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?

the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.

and they told us to tell you hello.

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We say Goodbye to 2017. We say Goodbye to a good year. Here’s our Top 10. 

Thanks for reading everybody. It’s a pleasure to make these silly comics and to receive all the crazy love. See you next year!  

KangHee Kim aka 김 강희 aka Tiny Cactus (Korean, b. 1991, Seoul, South Korea, based Brooklyn, NY, USA)  Photography