“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Monday, March 14, 2011

The Martian Branch of the Smithsonian


Surprisingly, the Viking 1 lander, which remains on Mars, is considered part of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum...

Ann Garrison Darrin and Beth Laura O'Leeary, eds., Handbook of Space Engineering, Archaeology, and Heritage (CRC Press).

That's one heck of a withdrawn object.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Harman writes Something like: "Our experience of the world is never with objects-in-themselves... it is with sensual objects comprised of their notes" (something like that). So, in the interests of nomenclature, are we in a position where we must drop entirely the use of the word object? And then say: that's one heckuva sensual Rover, what a series of notes it has extended to us. (Same for Mars-notes, yeah?). I know that might sound picky...